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110 [[Tewksbury]] " [[Aldborough]]
113 [[Norwich]]
114 The East-Anglians and their Princess
115 [[Bury St. Edmunds]]
112 [[Bungay]]
121 Continuation of 'Rough Log'
123 To [[Yarmouth]] by Steam Packet.
116. "Dear Mother's Work-basket." or "Fifty years since".
118. [[Thetford]].
192. [[Brock]] the [[Yarmouth]] Boatman
191. [[Mother Carey]]'s Chickens.
112. [[Lynn Regis]] or [[King's Lynn]].
190. The [[Norfolk]] and [[Suffolk]] river craft.
187. [[Burgh Castle]]
130 Family History.
1 W.R.S. + R.M.
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219. Map of Eastern counties
215 Fishing on the [[Norfolk 'Broads']].
214 The [['Broads' of Norfolk]] —————. Newspaper
212 The Oldest Collier —————————
202 The Flying Fish
201 The Fire-Fly
200 The Albatross
199 Bird's-Nest Soup.
198 The Shark.
197 The Mosquito
196 The Coral Grove
195 The Gulf-Weed
185 [[Madras]]. The Catamaran.
184 The [[Norfolk and Suffolk 'Crag']]
182 [[Sprat-Water Lake]] and the pirate Ship
180 The [[Seychelles Islands]] and the "Leaf Insect"
203 The [[Norfolk]] and "[[Suffolk Broads]]" [illegible?] in 'Land and Water.'
178 The [[Lowestoft]] Lighthouses Fisheries +_
173 The Swallow. verses.
My Rough Log.
211. Testimonial to [[Mr. Bullock]]. newspaper
- [[Neufchatal Lake]]. newspaper
-[[Lady Fetherstonaugh]] nee Bullock
168. Holidays spent at [[Lowesloft]] 1874
170 +_ at [[Huntingdon]] 1873
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1874
==Fifty years since or My Rough Log==
My grandfather was the oldest of three sons, Robert, William + George and at their father's death the farm with everything on it was sold off and the proceeds divided amongst the children. From my Father's recollections.
Robert Suggate, of Sotherton, a country parish towards Halesworth, Suffolk, was my grandfather, a fine, hale, hearty and genial old man, famous in my boyhood's judgement for tales of flood and field, and in those days best of all, an old leathern purse out of which he has given me many a silver piece of money, a snug corner for grandfather by the fire was always kept by us youngsters whenever he visited us. My ancestors were chiefly yeomen farmers in that part of Suffolk towards Stowmarket, and in many a quiet churchyard thereabouts. Where-
"The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep."
-May be seen the name on the tombstones. The name is not unknown on the muster-roll of sailors and soldiers, in bygone times, but also unknown to fame. A real hard old Saxon one it is. The origin of no consequence, but without doubt was here when the conqueror came. The origin of surnames has of course
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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