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William Marshall was the second son of John Marshall and Sarah Lawrence, born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, in October 1830. These letters were kept by his niece, my Great Grandmother Helen Urquhart (ms Marshall). – Ruairidh Greig |
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Another letter written from Plymouth Hospital on the 7th September 1855 - In this William MARSHALL says he is not returning to Peterhead because of his wild ways.
Transcribed by Ruairidh Greig
William Marshall Correspondence – Letter 7
William Marshall was the second son of John Marshall and
Sarah Lawrence, born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, in October 1830. The
following letters were kept by his niece, my Great Grandmother Helen Urquhart
(ms Marshall). According to Jessie Urquhart, her daughter, William was a whaler
who returned to the Arctic and married an Eskimo. Auntie Sissie (Sarah
Urquhart) met him on a visit to Peterhead and said that in his hand knitted
vest and long pants, he looked to her like a polar bear. – Ruairidh Greig
There is a transcription of this letter following
the images.
Letter 7
Plymouth Hospital
Sept 7 1855
Dear Brother
I write you this few lines to let you that I am getting
better thank god for it hopeing this will find you all enjoying good health I
received your kind letter yesterday and was happy to hear of your safe arrival
and a middling voage you said David Gray
wants you to go mate with him you ought to go to school to and do some good for
yourself for young men has got all the chance now by what i can hear some of them
I do not know what sort of captians they are but i do not think that they last
long i was rather wild when i was in Peterhead last and my 3 years and half in
Andrew
has not made me any better i think but if i do come down we shall have a sprey
again i can live without the ships or the captians in Peterhead and i am
independent of them i shall not be out of the hospital as soon as i thought i
would be
Dear brother you might think it very strange for
me writeing this way but i know them all to well and i would disown the place
if it was not for you being in it i do not know whether i am clear of the sea
or not till i get my discharge from the hospital the ship is paid of l--- i
think i will be clear when i get out here send me 2 pounds send it in four
letters for they are very particular with money in here i want to buy a pair of
shoes for i have not got any and tobace I have to buy in here and many other
little things tell margret that I have got some pictures for her write to the
hospital as before give my respects to margret and her mother and sister I am
happy to hear my mother and family is well write me when you get this excuse my
writing as I do for I cannot help it Goodbye
Your loveing brother
William Marshall
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