Item MFP/15/1 - Letter from Jane Munby to her brother Joseph

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MFP/15/1

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Letter from Jane Munby to her brother Joseph

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  • 8 September 1824 (Creation)

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(c1800 - present)

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Joseph Munby, solicitor, was the son of Joseph Munby and Jane Pearson. He was born in 1804.. In 1827, he married Caroline Eleanor Forth . They had seven children:

  • Arthur Munby b. c1829
  • John Forth. Munby b. c1832
  • George Frederick Woodhouse Munby b. c 1834
  • Frederick J. Munby b. c1838
  • Joseph Munby b. c1840
  • Caroline Munby b. c1844
  • Edward C. Munby b c1846

Frederick Munby and his wife, Elizabeth, had two children:
-Beatrice b. c1867
-John Cecil bc1876

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From Kirkheaton, sent to Joseph at Messrs. Ord & Pearson’s, Solicitors, York. Thanks him for the parcel and cheque and asks him to send their frocks and a watch-case. Comments on the news that Caroline Forth is to be a near relation. She had already told him her only objection, and might be mistaken in that. News of many friends and acquaintances: Archbishop at confirmation; new chancel at church, quarrelsome parson drinking at weddings and preaching against drunkenness.

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