June 22, 1985 Dear
Peter, Your letter(s)
attention
deserves
were recieved
and much
a prompt answer.
appreciated,
1 was
paticularly
Such happy to
hear that you enjoyed my book!
I've had a lot of fun writing
and rewriting
it,and---
it, and rewriting
.1
the fact is that, since
sending
you those pages,
thing!
I intend to put a copy of the revised
to you, for your educated
have
practically
perusal.
it,
rewritten
the whole
edition
(And comments,
in the mail
I hope.)
Just
throw the old pages n away when you get it. You will f~
that some items are the same, but 1 have changed,
added to, and inserted
several
to correct any mistakes!! above, and 1 thank you.
new items.
AND,
You have certainly
Now, on to the several letter:
points
in any english
had been knighted rather
doesn't
I was interested of our name. in slightly
records,
1 was aware that he
his ambassadorship.
in your
interpretation page
1.)
form regarding
very
it would
Sounds
of the "lock" ending
I have added that, although
the word
10k, as you have it,
and loke, as 1 show it. (Loke is in the Oxford If we are correct,
not being
it?
(See my revised different
in all of the
knighthood
although,
in Sweden during
ostentatious,
helped
attempted
that you bring up in your last
I did not know about Sir Bulstrode's registered
of course,
be very
like
Universal
Dictionary.)
our "Whitehouse",
which
is
plausible. Regarding
the two differances
in dates
you question:
A. Whitlock
Notes - died g/4/1899dnot- 8/4/1899.
corrected.
(2) C. Harrison
1895, according
Whitlock
to birth records
It has been so
was bo;n December
in Woods
county
(1)-John
4, 189J~not
(Parkersburg)
West
(by God) Virginia. I had my cousin, who lives in Parkersburg, chec} this out for me, sometime ago. fa~t, I thought I had passed thl~ . 1 on to you.
i~
Now, Susan
on to Susan Catherine ,
(Kent) Whitlock!
on this very my letters
subject
Beth
Whitlock,
Pratt
and I
for some time.
daughter
of Tandy and
have been back and forth
(1 am enclosing
some copies
of
to her, to save a lot of writing.)
1 am not sure where still makes more
I got the year
sense t~ me than
1849.
of 1854 originally,
but it
(2 )
Beth since
still feels that Susan C. wanted
she was legally
assumed
underage,
her legal guardianship,
to get married,
her grandfather,
William,
and
Jr.,
and then gave his permission.
The
same month her mother commite~ suicide???? wasn't because she was pregnant. Her first
Why??? It certainly child was not born
untill
I say she was married.
1855, five years later, a year after
Her second
child was born in 1858, three
But, then again, the guardian Augusta
that might
of her sisters
count~
years
explain
why he was not appointed
and brothers.
shows four of them living
later.
The 1850 census, with
their
oldest sister,
Malvina. i.e. Elizabeth (Betsy), Anna (Nancy), Robert All of which leads us back to the same questions; Catherine, child?"
alone?"
and "did she really
and "who really
Thanks receiving
wait
and Lancelot. "Why Susan
five years to have a
cares?".
again for your letters,
yo; next Whitlock
and I am looking
forward
etc. etc.
;{f~ Robert H. Whitlock Awhile
ago, before
to
Newsletter. Yours,
P. S.
in
I got into genealogy,
II
Alice and I rented
a car in London and toured for over three weeks through England, Scotland, Wales and then, crossed over to Ireland and did the same. A couple of weeks ago, I dug out the road map I had used, marking our route with a yellow highlite driven
right through
Wokingham!!!
pen.
Wouldn't
you know,
What an oportunity,
not even know it!!
I had
and I did
US
We, also, had our daughter Susan With}' as a High School She is now a student graduation present & part of her education. at Dhio University,
and wants to go back to see the place.
So do
I! ! It is certainly to. visit some of myoId ,
curious that I took that route to Bristol, army days hangouts.