Mary Cutler Paulin to her son Frederick Paulin, 17 Aug 1886

Letter from Mary Cutler Paulin to Frederick A Paulin, 17 August 1886

Henley Lodge

August 17^th/86

My dear Fred,

I think it is some time since you have receipt of one of my scrawls I shant keep our a [illegible] as I forget to when I wrote last. We think perhaps you are coming to be not very pleased we are with the idea but at the same time we wish you to [illegible] yourself only as what is best for you with be best with all of us. Mr and Mrs Braund came to see us yesterday they both looked well and were pretty cheerful they think perhaps Charlie will come this autumn, I eel the awkward now the [illegible] are with you

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But think from what Emmie says they have been a great expense to you they seem to be getting on wonderfully. Herbert especially he would never have done this I [illegible] here. I think Emmie [illegible] will get used to the change after a little while. I should not mind coming at all and I am sure your father would like it but we must wait a while you will be glad to hear Dads health improves indeed he looks quite healthy has a new coat hat felt – in fact new things altogether looks quite a buck I shall

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Have to look sweets now I shall have [illegible] any from inst I should like to be able to keep this little house one it well – [illegibile] let of was to [illegible] of you. I have a discontented lot of grils at house now they are wanting to be independent like the boys they forget how messy they are Amy is being paid for her work now but Florence has been at home not well. Dr Rothern says the letting will never do for her, but she is again helping out Miss Bastorn as they are very busy. The garden is really

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Looking good since very difficult to last year. Mr Maclarin brought a gentleman from his bank to photograph us in front of house. If they are anything like I will send some we shall [illegible] this week. I do hope dear to hear you are better but fear you write have to be careful what you take to eat. I should like to have you home a while to see what I could do for you. We have indeed enable to be the careful for you even got thoughts such a terrible illness, Louise left you at trails as you do is pretty well air now. I shall be glad when she is secured

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It will do her good. Dr R says so too. Violet is still with the old people it is a good thing for us she will shop with them they cannot get a servant to remain any time.

Your Dad is in London this week he goes [illegible] trains when there is a cheap train. The girls all send their best love, Bess says tell him he will [illegible] to take me back with him. If he could. With my bet love and every kind wish your aff Mother

Love to all, just received a long letter from Emmie.

Who is Who:

Mr and Mrs Braund, and Charlie Braund – Charlie Braund emigrated to Winnipeg then Victoria with Frederick A Paulin. He worked with him in Birmingham, and it appears the families were also friends.

Emmie – is Emma Jane Jennings Paulin, married to Frederick’s brother Ernest

Herbert is Frederick’s brother Herbert Paulin.

Bess, Violet, Amy and Florence are Frederick’s sisters

Dr Rothern – no idea, but could be Florence’s employer

The reference to the “old people” is likely the grandparents, George and Sarah Paulin, in Henley-on-Thames

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Visit to London – settling father’s estate, 1894

PS Acknowledgements to Taylor Bed

London

August 1, 1894

7:30 pm

Dear Fred

It is quite clear from your letter sent to hand – 5:30 pm to day and dated 16^th July that some letters have gone astray and never reached you. I have informed written you about the middle of June that my Uncle John left what he had between his brothers William and George(my late father absolutely but had my father died before said Uncle John I was to get his half. So there is nothing to expect from that source – we shall not appoint new trustees until we get possession of all the papers obtainable

We shall we hope soon be through here now and one heartily sick of the many obstructions we have had to encounter and clear away then we shall get down to Birm and do all we are able to sell the AG House if we don’t succeed to leave instructions for its sale in proper hands. We shall exercise discretion in the Clifford case. He has clearly broken covenant in conveyance. Bob has been thoughtful and kind to us in the way of finance – we hope soon to act said

And are trying to finish of the 2^nd inst. This is the date when we left England in 1888. The “Sarnia” sails on the 24^th. I am glad the samples from Taylor Road have arrived in Taylor Road in every where an advertised firm for Cocoa +C. Their written terms read thus-

“[illegible] receive on to be forwarded to Taylor Rd and on completion invoices and BH will be sent to us to hand in to buyer who is expected to remit Taylor Rd at once Bank draft at 30 d/s unless they should receive specific instructions from us to hypothecate the documents this the Bank of BC in which case they would be duly protected.

So start on selling if you can. Show the samples and prices to Charlie tell him the terms. We get 5% on cocoa chocolate or mustard and 2/s only on chicory – I have sole agency for BC for the cheapest and best soap in the [illegible] Crossfields of Warrington. Your Mom often talks of the dear ones at Victoria and seems to be always thinking of you. She sends her love to you all. Violet is already dreading the voyage.

We write in much affection from your Dad

We will have written dozens of letters to you amongst you

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Frederick Paulin to his son FA Pauline, 26 Apr 1883

Memorandum “La Invincidad” Works

Summer Row, Birmingham

Wm Trott & Co

Cigar Manufacturers

April 26^th 1883

My dear Fred

We received yours dated April 7^th by last delivery yesterday. It came to hand just as I was finishing a little gardening for want of daylight. I am getting the place gradually into form in the way of pruning + planting the gravelling and decorative department remains much as when you were here. The peas are just thro’ and I have saw dusted their rows to keep the birds off. We have had some 10 days or so of really favorable weather since you left, this changed however into a very uncomfortable condition of North East Wind with occasionally an introduction of snow or hail or sleet. We are all pretty well, the East wind seems to be bent on mischief especially in the way of chills + eye affections, my own + 2 or 3 of the little ones having been inflamed thereby – otherwise the hedges are coming freshly green again and would make rapid progress with more sun + warm showers. The land is dry and would benefit by some warm rain. We have some climbing plants viz woodbine + others about the port + brick piers of the bays which I purchased a few days ago at Cave’s Mosely St if these do well + grow freely the front bare effect will

Soon be changed. The front beds are sowed with annuals having the larger kinds lupins, sunflowers poppies sweet peas +c in the back ground. We will describe the progress of our floral and vegetable crop as it assumes sufficient importance and interest to be worth notice. We have a letter from Louise who is as I think I told you in last, at Swansea and has a very comfortable place there with kind people. She writes very cheerfully and will be pleased to be told about your Winnipeg letter. We are hoping now to hear that your first venture will be a big success in the way remunerative and that your employer will know sooner how to appreciate you that Chas Collins did. I called there 2 days ago + he gave me the Comm coming to me some 3.11.0 odd. We are told that his manner has been of the 2 worse than ever since you both left. Wens to the tiring journey you had in the train and that you have comfortable apartments. The extra expense provides for it. Winter seems to linger in the lap of spring with a vengeance this year and we have concluded in hope that you are both well tho’ you do not [illegible] your condition of health. I shall be interested to follow your impressions as time goes on and opinion on your future. I am again in an uncertainty of occupation. Trott is adopting shifting tactics (now that he thinks he has made a connection) by putting me on an impossible commission footing + I am seeking other arrangements with some one else – the best market of course I can find my connection – Trade during the last 3 months has been exceptionally band and cash invisible. One Richard Paulin kept a bakery some years ago and related to grandpa as a cousin. Mrs Weyman builders wife was his daughter. Much love – hoping to hear again. From your affectionate father FP

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Letter from Frederick Paulin to his son FA Pauline, 16 Apr 1883

Acock’s Green, Birm Ap 16 1883

My dear Fred

We have received your 2 letters, 1 from Portland after the pcard from Belfast + the other Ex Chicago date 31 March. By this time we hope you are settled in Winnipeg and that you find it an improvement on Chicago and approving + encouraging for the future. By this post comes 2 Henley ado to you like to look through them. The Brooklyn came to grief within a few hours of leaving Portland on her way back with bilged plates on a ledge of rocks + was logged, she may be got off again, divers at work on the wreck. We are having a dry time here and some rain will be most acceptable the ground is dry as an ash heap. Trolb is shifting about in his tactics and things do not look hopeful, he has cut me down to impossible commission which will necessitate some change. Ernest + George have started in lodgings today in town off the Bristol Road, this will be I hope satisfactory all round. The choir were pleased to hear you had reached Chicago, so far on your road to your destination. Mrs Braund have been over her to tea + spend a few homes today she is well and all are anxious for your next letter. I have found a suitable (I think)place for Louise at Swansea to teach 3 little boys and make herself useful between whiles + got on the 26^th inst. I have sent the box of books cards +c such a handsome lot back to Sutton’s which arrived a day after you had gone. I wrote Sutton’s that it had come too late and they returned a very nice letter of regret +c that it had not been in time. They are at TJ+Co pretty miserable I hear, M Charles trying his best to make times very uncomfortable. Mr Smith appears worried and misses you both very much. The Henley folks are well. We heard two days ago. I forgot to add Suttons will send you out another box of papers books +c whenever you wish it – your Mother + Louise will write you perhaps in this,

From your very affectionate father.

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Frederick Paulin to Frederick Arthur Paulin, 2 Apr 1886

Hurst’s Temperance Hotel

Hood Street

Liverpool

April 2^nd 1886

My dear Fred

The enclosed came this morning addressed to me here. It is doubtless intended for you written to go in another envelope but in the hurry enclosed in the one addressed to me. You suspect will have the letter intended for me, but I shall know when I return the afternoon to AG. Poor Mama is I know chaotic just now. I left the voyagers 4 on the “Adriatic” yesterday afternoon, by my last tender afterwards immediately I took some food and then the boat down the Mersey to New Brighton and stood on the pier there as the “Adriatic” passed at 6:30 pm. I waved and flew the coloured flag as I did when I left the “Adriatic” but I got no response so I suppose the voyagers were busy below. Our thoughts are always wondering to the lad of the Free – “To the West”

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And the general motivation in all round to migrate to you. Will it be?

It is yet hidden in the “dim and distant future” – may it come out of the huge distance and become an absolute fact! I send you a dressing gown. Fishers handkerchief and mama some like items. I have told the voyagers that now amongst them we must have one letter at least weekly.

Much love from your affectionate father.

More about the SS Adriatic, which was the vessel mentioned in the letter above. The voyagers he is talking about is Ernest and Emma Paulin, Amy Jennings and Herbert Paulin.

Adriatic_(1871) (1) — White Star Liner Adriatic (1871). Oil on Canvas, 22 ¼ x 36 inches. George Parker Greenwood (fl.1870-1904) – http://www.vallejogallery.com/item.php?

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Estate of Thomas Jennings, Yardley, 1891

Birmingham Daily Post, 12 Jan 1891

Re Thomas Jennings, deceased – Pursuant to an Act of Parliament made and passed in the 22^nd and 23^rd years of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, cap 35, intituled “An Act to Further Amend the Law of Property and to Relieve Trustees.” Notice is hereby given, that all Creditors and Persons having any claims or demands upon or against the Estate of Thomas Jennings, late of Yardley, in the county of Worcester, licensed victualler, deceased (who died on the 26^th day of April 1885, and whose Will with a codicil was proved by Walter Jennings, of Yardley, aforesaid, the son of the deceased, and William Mainwaring Sterry of Lawley Street, Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Hotel Proprietor, the executors named in the said codicil, on the 16^th day of June 1885, in the District Registry at Worcester of the probate division of the high court of Justice) are hereby required to send in the particulars of their claims and demands to us, the undersigned, solicitors for the said executors, on or before the 19^th day of January instant. And notice is hereby also given, that after that day the executors will proceed to distribute the assets of the deceased among the parties entitled thereto, having regard only to the claims of which the said executors shall then have notice; and that they will not be liable for the assets or any part thereof, so distributed to any person of whose debts or claim they shall not then have had notice – dated this 8^th day of January 1891.

Beale & Co, 3 Newhall Street, Birmingham

Solicitors to the executors

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Christmas Meat Show, Birmingham, 1874

Birmingham Daily Post 16 Dec 1874

Christmas Meat Show

James Jennings

Purveyor to Her Majesty

93 Smallbrook Street

Will exhibit on Thursday next

December 17 and following days

Some prime Devon Oxen and Heifer, fed by Sir Thoms Boughey, Bart., Aqualate Hall, Newport, Salep. Four prime short-horn heifers, fed by Mr Isaac Jennings, Yardley, near Birmingham. Also several shorthorn and Hereford Oxen; also prize sheep from Bingley Hall Show. Hampshire Downs, bred and fed by Alfred Morrison, Esq, Tisbury, Wilts; Horned Dorset, bred and fed by Herbert Farthing, Esq, Bridgwater Somerset, and a quantity of prime Southdowns, fed by Charles Thornton, Esq Curdworth, near Birmingham.

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Obituary – HN Short 1902

Victoria Daily Times, 20 Feb 1902

Well Known Citizen died this Morning

HN Short passed away at his residence, Oak Bay, this morning – He was a pioneer

Death this morning removd one of Victoria’s most widely known pioneers in Henry Short, the Douglas Street gunsmith. His demise was not wholly unexpected, as he was in the merciless grip of a malady which could have none other than a fatal termination. He has been ill for many months, but he never recovered from the shock caused by the death of his daughter a short time ago, which, it is believed, hastened his end. Previous to his last attack of illness, a fortnight ago, he was able to get out for a few days, but was shortly afterwards confined to his bed again, growing gradually weaker until this morning, when he expired at his residence, Ross Bay.

Henry Short was a native of Cork, Ireland, where he was born fifty-nine years ago. He came to Victoria in 1862, having left London on the ship Tynemouth, which brought out a large number of well known pioneers, the majority of whom have already passed into the great beyond.

Unlike many of the early comers, he did not fall a victim to the gold fever, and consequently did not embark in mining enterprises. Instead, he engaged at once in the gunsmith business, his first establishment being a little structure near the corner of Pandora and Government streets. Subsequently he removed his business to Fort Street, where he built up a thriving trade. He removed to Douglas street about ten years ago, and until his illness was always to be found in his premises as enthusiastic as when he first embarked in business in this city in the early sixties. Mr Short was an active sportsman and an energetic, skillful votary of both the gun and rod. He was full of life and hearty spirits, of a benevolent disposition, and will be greatly missed by a large circle of friends and acquaintances.

He was a past master of Victoria Lodfe, AOUW and a member of the Pioneer Society.

He was an ardent lover of music, and many a time in the good old days delighted the pioneers by his splendid voice. He was a leader of Christ Church Cathedral Choir for many years, and subsequently recently conducted the choir of the Reformed Episcopal Church.

He leaves a widow, a daughter and two sons, Nugent and Richard. Further notice of the funeral will be given.

Victoria Daily Times 20 Feb 1902

Died

Short – At his residence, “Pineville”, Ross Bay, on the 20^th instant, Henry Short, a native of Cock, Irleand, aged 59 years. Due notice of the funeral will be given.

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Obituary – Alice Nugent Short, 1907

Victoria Daily Times, 18 April 1907

Death of an Old-Timer

After a lingering illness Mrs Alice Short passes away

The death occurred last evening at Pine Villa, Fairfield road, of Alice, widow of the late Henry Short, of this city. The deceased came to Victoria in 1868 and was one of the pioneers of this province. She died after a lingering illness, during which she suffered from paralysis. Her age was 66, a native of Dublin, Ireland, and sister of the late Archdeacon Nugent, of Westmeath, who for many years was chaplain to the Primate of Ireland.

Her husband Henry Short, was one of the best known men in the city, having come out here in 1862. He was a gunmaker by trade.

The deceased leaves to mourn her loss two sons, Henry Nugent of this city, and Richard, who is now in Butte, Montana, one daughter, Susan, who is employed in the Government buildings and three grandchildren.

The funeral has been arranged to take place on Saturday afternoon from the family residence at Pine Ville.

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Henry Short, Victoria, 1902

Victoria Daily Times, 24 Feb 1902

The remains of the late Henry Short were laid to rest yesterday afternoon. The funeral took place from the family residence, Pineville, Ross Bay, at 2:15 pm, and at Christ Church Cathedral at 3 o’clock. The services were conducted by Rev Canon Beanlands at the church and grave. The choir was in attendance and sang appropriate hymns. There was a large attendance of friends, and many beautiful floral designs, showing the esteem in which the deceased was held. The members of Victoria lodge, no 1 AOUW attended in a body, also the Victoria Gun Club. The following acted as pall bearers: HD Helmcken, MPP ,JM Langley, BH John, W Gordon, Thos Shotbolt, J Braden Sr, E White, G Winter.

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