ENPages That Mention Asia
Robert Suggate journal and commonplace book, 1874-1878.
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many sources, and has sometimes an antiquarian and historical importance, and it is very natural, that it might partake of the same hereditary character as had been annexed to the office, or lands, with which it has been associated; as Suggate might possibly come from Surrogate Latin (Surrogatus), one substituted or appointed in room of another, a deputy.
My Grandfather had two sons only, my father William the eldest, and my uncle Henry [illegible?]. My father followed the business of farming, and my uncle the profession of medicine, and after the usual and necessary course of instruction in the hospitals of London, was appointed assistant surgeon on board the old Asia man of war, at that time a vessel of some renown.
My father purchased a little farm in the parish of Carlton Colvile, near Lowestoft, Suffolk, and I was born in 1806, and as soon as I was big enough my occupation was fetching the cows home from their grazing grounds for milking, and driving back to the same, also keeping designing pigs in authorized bounds. Eight youngsters of whom I was the eldest, left our good parents, after finding food and raiment for us, but little money to spare for our schooling, nevertheless Whenever I could be spared from the duties of the farm, I was sent either to a school