Tag: children

  • David Edward

    David Edward

    Date: November 2-3, 1885. Location: Aspley, Hertfordshire, UK. On November 2nd and 3rd, 1870, I lost my two eldest boys, David Edward and Harry, in scarlet fever, they being then three and four years old, respectively. Harry died at Abbot’s Langley on November 2nd, fourteen miles from my vicarage at Aspley; David the following day…

  • To See Her Children

    To See Her Children

    Date: Circa. 1854 Location: Egypt A lady and her husband (who held a position of some distinction in India) were returning home (A.D. 1854) after an absence of four years, to join a family of young children, when the former was seized in Egypt with an illness of a most alarming character, and, though carefully…