A yr later, in July 1825, Mary Williams and her daughter Catherine went to Hamburg to see Sydney and on their return stayed with ‘my nephew John’s at Holloway, with a Miss Bohrer they had introduced from Germany as a Missionary. As she was not at all certified for a governess’s scenario, we had been now subsequently wanting out for some state of affairs for her in the dressmaking, or youngster-bed linen line under the superintendance of a Mistress, in which Mrs Enderby was type enough to help, tho’ as she mentioned, after what occurred, it wo’d not be correct to receive her at her home.’ Nearly a yr later, in April 1825, Harriett was apprenticed for 3 years to Mrs White, a dressmaker, of South Street in London. Christian. She doesn’t hear Mr Irons & told me she did not know that she was benefitted when she did, but she has an incredible respect for him, and has performed him many variety offices. Catherine took over the varsity, and remained head-mistress until he loss of life in 1881.’ However, no date is given for the purchase of Elmfield House and we all know from John Marsh’s account that she was nonetheless at the Palace in August 1827. The existence of the college at this period, and through the remainder of its life, can only be gleaned from entries within the Nottinghamshire Directories of the time, published by Pigot and White.
He might have stored this discovery to himself: I do know he hesitated whether he should disclose it (or) not, for supposing it insurmountable, he thought it could be better for William not to realize it, but his prudential motives had been overruled and out it came. However this could also be the discovery acted like magic & he very quickly obtained permission to combat her mothers objections, & the enterprise was quickly settled. In May 1824, Marsh was staying in London and on Tuesday 18th, ‘I went to Islington & dined at my nephew J. Williams’s the place my grandaughter Harriett was now staying whom my Sister had been obliged to dismiss from Southwell initially of the 12 months, on account of her having been detected in flirting with one of many Hutchinsons, Son of the Surgeon there, & meeting him at evening within the garden. In July 1826, John Marsh was In London, after certainly one of his trips to Kent to collect his rents, when he ‘had a visit from my Sister, niece Mary & nephew John, at whose house my Sister had been staying since she left Ramsgate, to which she had gone with my Son Edw’d & household about 3 weeks before within the steam boat, which conveyed his numerous family of 13 (together with 3 maids) with a lot ease.
The next year, in July 1827, John Marsh went to Bognor for a fortnight, ‘for the sake of just a little sea air earlier than I went to Southwell, when my Son Edw’d was going quickly to maintain his residence for the months of August, Sept’r & Oct’r the first a part of which I had agreed to spend with him. About 10 at night nonetheless she arrived, having gone by a Portsmouth coach to Petersfield, whence she was pushed in gigs to Chichester & Bognor.’ They stayed in Bognor for only two or three days, earlier than returning all collectively to Chichester. Nursery, quite an odd mixture we thought.’ Quite a lot of other alterations were made but ‘Soon after they were completed but not paid for, he was obliged to decamp on account of his having made free with the property of sir Richard Sutton to whom he was steward. She was the oldest sister of George Hodgkinson junior, and she married Richard Barrow, the top of the Grammar School. In your letter of March twenty fourth you proposed queries about our college which I answered in a letter of May 27th. I’m not in a position to present more particulars of what our intentions are about the college.
In line with Sybil Woods, ‘Her school flourished and she bought a large residence, Elmfield House, at Burbage Green, Southwell, which quickly turned a fashionable boarding-faculty. He returned by way of Southwell, where he arrived on Wednesday twenty first, ‘alighting to go to my Sister’s, whose numerous household I discovered all in good well being. This it seemed was the observe on each other Wednesday night; & on the observe’g even’g a Mrs Stenton, Miss Plumptre, Mrs Watson & Mr Heathcote drank tea with us, the latter of whom & his Sister additionally drank tea with us on the follow’g night. The Barrows eventually took over the authorized practice founded by George Hodgkinson senior. The Sutton Barrow that Mary Williams refers to above was the daughter of Mary, eldest daughter of George Hodgkinson senior and his spouse Mary. You may have heard that Mr George Hodgkinson turned us out that he may make a grand place of it and reside there himself.’ Mr Hodgkinson apparently made some substantial alterations including ‘my poor little quaint bedroom after being considerably reduced is made right into a water closet, which in these genteel days is considered indispensable. The George Hodgkinson that Mary Williams mentions in her letter was the son of George Hodgkinson junior.