(Kent) Whitlock! AWS

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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.