[In the handwriting of William Fidler] Mount Barker August 22 1875 My son George the following is not ritin so much for your information as for your children and your children's children that they might know from what and from ware thair ancestors came I was born the 8th of October 1813 at Croomhill in the parish of Otterborne near Winchester hampshier england my father was William Fidler of the same place..farm laberer my grandfather was William Fidler of cranbury park and clark of the parish of otterborne and for many years under Steward at the park my great grandfather was Joseph Fidler of Hursley park near Winchester he died in the year 1814 and was long remmemberd and spoken of as a chearfull lively kind old man my grandfathers famly I knew but little of our own family ware 5 brothers and 2 sisters one sister dead James Jacob Charles henry and Ann still alive at this date and never heard of their death your Mothers maiden name was Elisabeth sheppard.
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Original letter held by Lindsay Hope. Transcription provided by Gordon William Fidler.
