Diary of Rev Edward Stevens

Visited John Lamb Junior to condole with him and his sister Annie on the death of his wife. Her mother (Mrs Barton) was there. I read & prayed with them, then took John outside and gave him 10/— to help him with his expenses, which must have been heavy. He was very much cut up , but seemed very grateful.

I afterwards called on Mrs Cassell who is about to be confined. I gave her 2/- towards paying the doctor’s 10/6. The other 10/6 is paid by a provident club to which she and her husband belong.

Called at Jewell’s and ordered grocery parcels (40) same contents as last year.

Ordered coal from Banbury at 28/6 delivered to Sibford.

Coal distribution.

Frank wrote to Miss Thomson, 29 Brunswick Road Brighton about a junior tutorship in her School, notice of which was sent by Scholastic Association, 8 Lancaster Place, Strand, J. R. Beevor, M. A., Secretary.

This is the 50th anniversary of my dear mother’s death. She died at 3?? Little?? Coleman Street in the house of my grandmother and grandfather Howe (her parents) December 18, 1843, aged 37, and was buried on the 22nd December in St Margaret’s Churchyard Ipswich next to her brother Richard whom I never saw, to my knowledge, and who died at the early age of 18.