Thank you Janet! I agree with the prose comment: very redolent of a different era but certainly both very evocative & commendable given how little formal education h must have received. His sister in law (my Great Great Grandmother) for example I believe was illiterate. I also agree about your comments regarding posts: clearly service was not the "job for life" that popular history often makes it out to be: no wonder he ended up as his own boss running a pub in Barton Under Needwood in Staffordshire. I attach a photo of him. Quite the Victorian gentleman (taken c1900 at his daughter's wedding)
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