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1847  ENTIRE WRITTEN BY EMMA IRBY AT COTTESBROOKE RECTORY ADDRESSED TO HER BROTHER LEONARD IRBY IN SIDNEY, AUSTRALIA AND REDIRECTED TO Bolivia, Armidale, Clarrence River SHOWING A GREAT-CREATON [previously Magna Creaton] Undated Circle and PAID SHIP LETTER//DATE/LONDON.  On the reverse is a SHIP LETTER/...

1847  ENTIRE WRITTEN BY EMMA IRBY AT COTTESBROOKE RECTORY ADDRESSED TO HER BROTHER LEONARD IRBY IN SIDNEY, AUSTRALIA AND REDIRECTED TO Bolivia, Armidale, Clarrence River SHOWING A GREAT-CREATON [previously Magna Creaton] Undated Circle and PAID SHIP LETTER//DATE/LONDON.  On the reverse is a SHIP LETTER/...


.../DATE/SYDNEY AND /GENERAL POST OFFICE SIDNEY.  LENOARD'S BROTHER EDWARD HAD RECENTLY PURCHASED 'BOLIVIA', A LARGE SHEEP FARM.  Great[Little]-Creaton is where Amphyllis Twigden (Washington), President George Washington's Great Great Grandmother, was born in 1601, and lived, but was buried in Tring, Hertfordshire 1655.



Item reference: 7089

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