Mother left us for Fareham. I drove her in the donkey cart as far as the corner and met the coach. In the evening I rather poorly.
The Diary of Mary Ann Denham
Wootton Bridge 1857 -1859Archive for the ‘Diary’ Category
Julia went to see Fanny. The revivals are still up.
Mother, Julia and I went to Wootton Church, we all received the Sacrament, Julia and I having decided to try for salvation.
Mother and I went to Newport. The preachers returned to their respective homes, but the revival meeting was kept to a late hour by themselves.
Mother still very poorly. In the evening we again went to Chapel, Miss Fanny Wall, Miss Alford and Mr. Brown went to the penients pew. Mr Bailey called to see us.
Mother very poorly. In the evening we went to Chapel, the converts tonight were Mr John Harbour, Mr. John Miller, Mrs Bright, Mrs Jane Glaspel and Mrs Wight.
Julia went to Woodhouse and drank tea with Fanny.
In the evening we went to chapel. The converts this evening were Miss Julia Cooper, Miss Elizabeth Whittington and Mrs Whittington.
The weather very snowy. In the evening Littletown revival meeting commenced. Mrs Miller, Mrs Russell senior, Miss Russell junior and Mary Ann, Miss Salter, Mr James Moody were deeply convinced of sin.
We discovered that six of the eggs we sat the hen on was barren, so that out of the 14 eggs we have only 8 chickens, but they are very healthy sweet little creatures. We heard that Mr. John Young was married a short time back to Mrs Rawlins at Ryde, Mr. Young is nearly 74 years of age. In the evening mother arrived home from Ryde, Uncle and Aunt still very ill. A tea party at Newport Bible Christian chapel.
I went to Wootton Church, saw Miss Ann Cooper. In the afternoon Cousin William and Mr. Trotter drank tea with us, after tea Cousin William and his friend, and Julia went into Newport church. They arrived home about 9 o’clock.