Sarah Elizabeth DEWE [15869]

  General Notes:

Sarah Elizabeth Dewe
Record Type: Christening (Baptism)
Baptism Date: 14 Nov 1844
Baptism Place: Rockland St Mary, Norfolk, England
Father: Joseph Dewe
Mother: Frances Catherine
FHL Film Number: 1526654

Dewe Sarah Elizabeth of 38 Kildare Ter, Middlesex spinster died 6 February 1922 Probate London 28 Mar 1922 to the Rev Charles Manley Ashwin clerk and James Leslie Sweet solicitor. Effects £6157 6s 8d
National Probate Calendar

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 30 Mar 1851, St Mary Rockland NFK. Sarah is recorded as a daughter aged 6 born Rockland NFK

2. Census: England, 8 Apr 1861, Rectory House Rockland NFK. Sarah is recorded as Sarah Elizabeth a daughter unmarried aged 16 born Rockland NFK

3. Letter from Sarah Dewe: To E H T Liveing about family, 7 Jan 1922.
Liveing Archive 281a-f

38 Kildare Terrrace
London W2.
January 7, 1922
My dear cousin
I scarcely know where to begin when writing to you today. Whether first to thank you for your most welcome and interesting letter or to congratulate you upon (sic) you call "a small honour". But I hardly think your friends will regard it as such; though after your long connection with the University, and the greater honours
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that have been so justly confirmed upon you, this fresh proof of their gratitude and regard, I might say affection \endash for you, however gratifying, may seem in your own view small by comparison.
Katie Jackson¹ as she has always been called, died after a short illness, of which I heard nothing till about a week before her death. I do not know the cause of the illness: but I fear she suffered much towards the close \endash I am rather
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surprised at any notice of the Will should have appeared in the papers \endash For I can hardly imagine it to be worth even a few shillings to publish it: unless money was left to a Charity, which does sometimes attract people's notice, I fancy and encourage them "to do likewise" \endash Of course I know that the four sisters² were left very comfortably off: but they always maintained a degree of secrecy about their own affairs: and, now that two of the sisters have died, I should have thought that upwards
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£11,000 would be considerably below the mark in spite of the simplicity with which they have lived since Aunt Jackson's death - Only judging from my own experience, each £100 now would not represent more than £50 if invested in what were always called gilt-edged securities.
The G^d Trust Railway of Canada was reckoned at least as safe investment as far as the higher priced stocks are involved. But almost
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everyone I know is more or less aggrieved and ashamed of the dishonesty of the Canadian Government who are disowning their debt to the Preference Shareholders: and my little income is diminished, and some £300 lost by this fact.
You are so clever in tracing family pedigrees and family connections that I have no doubt you will be able to discover from what branch of the Downings and Fripp's Lawrence Fortescue's friend claims descent
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at any rate he/we [?] knew where to apply for this information: and I shall be much interested as to the result of your researchers. No doubt you know that Lawrence is now Sir Lawrence ! with (Anna Jackson told me) no end of letters after his name. So evidently, he has done something worthy of distinction during a long period in Canada. Still, as Knights are now as plentiful as blackberries, as the saying goes, I think
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we might call this a small distinction, though the letters appended may have a greater value - did you see the announcement of Uncle Fortescues eldest Grandson's marriage to a daughter of the Squire of the Parish of which he had been Rector for some years. Now he is priest in charge (whatever that may mean) of Wilmcote: and as Alice and Joan are living at the dear old Manor House at Alveston, and the Bride is warmly welcomed, it seems a nice arrangement for them all. What you say about Ireland is exactly what I heard
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from one or two Irish gentlemen, who said they know their . . . . . country well too well to be at all sanguine as to the prospect of peace \endash for they do not really want it: as they simply love fighting, and nothing will ever satisfy them.
No doubt to, this is in great measure a religious War, bolstered up by the Roman Church silently but surely \endash some people think that if the Pope had excommunicated all the cowardly murderers and other dastardly
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crimes, or rather criminals much of the hideous tales we hear would have never reached us. I was staying with a Friend in the Summer who was distressed by hearing from her Sister in Law that their fine old Castle near Cork had been burnt to the ground by the Sinn Feiners one night, while she and her daughter were alone, her husband and sons all away. The servants contrived to save some of the most valuable furniture, and no lives were lost, which was a great mercy
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a young soldier who is quartered with some of his regiment in Ireland, said that there is no end to their treachery: and they seem to think nothing of shooting a man in the back even if innocent of any offence, if they are so disposed. I have a young Cousin also quartered on an island outside Cork but he only complains of dullness - a great contrast to his experience in the Great War, when he was very dangerously wounded; but has now completely
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recovered and has cheered his solitude by becoming engaged to an American girl, of whom his family seem greatly to approve. There seems little chance of my getting a house before Lady Day: but I much hope for the best - and have several little projects in view if I am compelled to be a vagrant ! for a time. But I dread leaving my home here, which has so many past bright memories associated with it - I was truly glad that you could give such a good report of E's own health; and trust
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now that you will get over the winter comfortably. Water is still sorely needed \endash A lady I met at a friends house the other told me that even in their own house, (which is not a small one by any means) baths are positively out of the question as the water supply is wholly inadequate and unless heavy snow or rain comes quickly, the effect in the neighbourhood will be very serious. My letter has grown too long already \endash so I must only add my love and warm wishes that many blessings
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may be yours my dear cousin and many years may still be given you to enjoy the honours bestowed upon you.
Ever your affectionate cousin S E Dewe
London Tube [?] is greatly adulterated now with water.

Footnotes.
1. Catherine Maria Jackson [14737]
2. Family of Rev Frances George Jackson [9954]

4. Letter from Sarah Dewe: To E H T Liveing about family, 28 Jan 1922.

5. Letter from Sarah Dewe: To E H T Liveing about family, 28 Jan 1922.
Liveing Archive 282a-h Part 2