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Robert Hill Edwards family fonds : [1831-1858, 1913]
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1847, 1919, Copied 1975 (Creation)
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.06 m of textual records
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Edwards, Robert Hill (Family)
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Robert Hill Edwards was born in Whitchurch, England, on the 26 October 1817, the third of six children of John Edwards and Marion Hill. . He married Mary Stubbs (1814-1865) on the 17 January 1839, and they had seven children: Mary Elizabeth (Oxenham) (1841-1918); Thomas Jeffreys (1844-1877); John Reece (1846-1940); Robert Hill (1848-1904); Marion Torrap (Deacon) (1851-1919); James Torrap (1854-?); and Philip Michael (1856-?). Robert was a lay preacher in the Wesleyan Church. In 1850-1851, Robert sailed with his family to Prince Edward Island. He settled in North Wiltshire where he taught school. Robert died at North Wiltshire on the 30 December 1858.
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Edwards, Robert Hill
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Robert Hill Edwards was born in Whitchurch, England, on the 26 October 1817, the third of six children of John Edwards and Marion Hill. Robert traveled throughout Great Britain and also journeyed to the United States in 1838 and 1839. He married Mary Stubbs (1814-1865) on the 17 January 1839, and they had seven children: Mary Elizabeth (Oxenham) (1841-1918); Thomas Jeffreys (1844-1877); John Reece (1846-1940); Robert Hill (1848-1904); Marion Torrap (Deacon) (1851-1919); James Torrap (1854-?); and Philip Michael (1856-?). Robert was a lay preacher in the Wesleyan Church. In 1850-1851, Robert sailed with his family to Prince Edward Island. He settled in North Wiltshire where he taught school. Robert died at North Wiltshire on the 30 December 1858.
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The fonds consists of correspondence, a journal, diary and recipe book believed to belong to Mary Stubbs Edwards, notebook, and assessment rolls of the Hampshire school belonging to Robert Hill Edwards. The correspondence consists of two letters: one to Mary Hill Edwards from her mother-in-law Marion Edwards dated the 22 May 1841, and the other to Robert Hill Edwards from E.J. Vaughan dated the 10 May 1858. The journal of Robert Hill Edwards documents a list of supplies and settlements of accounts of students in North Wiltshire from 1853 to 1855, recipes, beginnings of letters, expenditures and notes of his farm, a list of addresses and letters written in 1837, an account book for 1837-1838, as well as a receipt book by D.J. Haynes in Boston. Robert 's notebook (1831-1835) includes poetry, lists of books and magazines, copies of letters, journal entries, and genealogical information of the Edwards family. The fonds also contains a three page handwritten history of Hampshire (n.d.) and an assessment roll of the Hampshire School dated the 15 October 1913.
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PERMISSION FOR USE AND REPRODUCTION IS REQUIRED FROM THE PUBLIC ARCHIVES AND RECORDS OFFICE; QUESTIONS REGARDING COPYRIGHT ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE USER
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