We’ve subsequently been to no different Church and think we shall relish less than ever your Southwell preacher. John Marsh returned to Southwell in July 1819. ‘My Sister having at the begining of the 12 months invited me to go to them at Southwell I put it off till the summer season, meaning to take the opportunity of going further north, even as far as Edinburgh, which I had long wished to see. In July, John Marsh obtained a letter from his sister at Southwell, forwarded by his brother Henry, ‘giving a really unhealthy account of our brother Will’m who was much emaciated, & co’d keep nothing upon his stomach, having for several weeks had no appetite, altho’ in the letter I acquired from him on the 12h. he wrote in pretty good spirits, & seemed to have hopes from a new prescription of Dr Storer’s, of Nottingham, he had then started upon. Back in Chichester, in October, ‘I received a letter from a Mrs C. Heathcote (late Cath’e Williams) of Southwell. Eight set off in a coach for Southwell which I reached in time to have gone to church with my Sister & family had I had any change of raiment, of which the lack of my trunk had deprived me.
On Tuesd’y morning the 20h. I was gratified with the sight of my trunk again, which had been franked to Newark, & on the Friday after I dined at Mr Becher’s, & on Monday the 26. performed the organ at church for Mr Heathcote & within the night tried my morning service in D with him, my nieces & Mr Thompson, which Mr Becher supposed now having put in rehearsal in the choir, now Mr Heathcote had received the boys into an improved type of singing. On Monday the 26. I anticipated my Sister, Nieces & grandaughter Harriett down by the coach, for whom I had taken locations before I left city, & accordingly ordered dinner at 5. after i went to cease the coach at the fleece, however was surprized at finding it come in empty withinside, the coachman saying that nobody got here both to the Belle Sauvage, Golden cross or Elephant & castle at which latter place he waited a long time.
About half previous 6. nonetheless they arrived in a postchaise, not having been in a position to get 3 places in both of the coaches.’ He took a cottage in Bognor, the place they may all spend every week together. In September, John Marsh set off to see his sister again, eventually arriving at Newark, ‘the place having breakfasted within the resort, a put up chaise took me the remaining 8 miles to Southwell, where I found my Sister & household all effectively. In September, John Marsh set out for York, to attend the second grand music festival there. In July 1826, John Marsh was In London, after considered one of his journeys to Kent to collect his rents, when he ‘had a visit from my Sister, niece Mary & nephew John, at whose home my Sister had been staying since she left Ramsgate, to which she had gone with my Son Edw’d & household about three weeks earlier than in the steam boat, which conveyed his numerous household of 13 (together with 3 maids) with much ease.
The following 12 months, in July 1827, John Marsh went to Bognor for a fortnight, ‘for the sake of a little sea air before I went to Southwell, when my Son Edw’d was going soon to keep his residence for the months of August, Sept’r & Oct’r the primary a part of which I had agreed to spend with him. On the Thursday Evening after our arrival we went along with your uncle to St. Johns Chapel (which has these days been built) as a result of, he had engaged to play the organ, the Organist of that chapel who is also organist of the Cathedral being in London, and as it occurred that we very much preferred the gentleman who preached it gave us great pleasure to find that your Uncle goes there frequently every Sunday Morning and Evening as we do to Mr Daniel Wilsons. On the subsequent morning I received a letter from my Sister, informing me of our poor brother Willam’s nice hazard, there being no hopes of his recovery, on which she had written by the same publish to our brother Henry, requesting him to return to them instantly, though she hardly anticipated he wo’d find poor Will’m alive. After all, nonetheless it was to no purpose, that he thus hurried himself as on the following morning, Friday the thirty first. I acquired one other letter from my sister, informing me that our poor brother was no more, having gone off in his simple chair, without any wrestle, on Tuesday evening the 28h. Poor William!