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Addition to p.6

Letters from Sarah Penny to her nephew Thomas Hassall, indicate that there is confusion
over the name of Elizabeth Hancox's sister. In some places it seems that her name was Mary
who married John Penny, but the signature on some of the letters is clearly "Sarah" or "S" Penny.
On 1 March 1821 from Coventry she wrote to her nephew on hearing of the death of his father,
Rowland Hassall. She asked him to visit her before he left England as it would be the "last time
to see one of my sister's children". Later, on 19 August 1821 she wrote to farewell him as he
was about to leave England. In her letter she commented that she had an "illness which was
occasioned by drinking cold water when I was hot and brought on a complaint which I have been
subject to at my stomach which I hope it will soon be removed if the Lord will". *

*Hassall Correspondence, A1677-3, pp.847-9 and 1045-6.