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Description: | Addressed to "Kiend farther and Mouther".
Talks about his family in Australia. He lives "in a little villige called walkervale a bout tuo miles from adelaide". His father in law has a public house there and is doing very well, Boyce's brother in law manages the family brewery. Boyce now has a son who was born on 12 March 1843 and was married on 15 September.
Two days after his marriage Boyce and his brother in law went into the bush "a sheep shering" where they did very well, and then did harvesting in November - "whe ave like too arvists hear whe arvist on the plains from the latter end of ocktober till a bout crismas time and then whe go in the hills about crismas to reiping". He lives with a gentleman called Joseph Barrot in the bush, whom he had worked for as a ploughman before his marriage. He is now threshing for him and, if Mr Barrot takes on more land, will be engaged as his overseer.
He lists agricultural and food prices in the colony and talks about the fruit that grows in the region - "in corse of a nother too or three years thear will be frute of all sorts for it his a fine cuntre for growing aney think whot hever is planted it is shuear to grow". He also describes some of the local wildlife including emus, kangaroos and possoms (?), and talks about "the natives".
The two sailors who had run away from the ship with Boyce had fished together for about 12 months. They then decided to go to Sydney from Adelaide but got drunk at a half way house, one fell asleep and the other took his clothes and sailed on a ship. The one who remained is at the port, fishing. William Holland was married in August and has 40 acres of land and 6 bullocks, he "is a doing very well".
Boyce asks for addresses for and sends love to family and friends. His in-laws, Mr and Mrs Tomson, come from Heathfield in Sussex.
He may return to England to visit but not to live - "if peeple is a gitting a gud living in england let them stop if not austrialia thear is plenty to eate and to drink and weell paid for thear work it his a fine cuntre for a young man to cum to thear is plenty of work for labering men is very carse".
Signed from "yoar un dute full sun" Benjamin Boyce and Lousa Boyce, with a note that "my suns name his Thomas".
Stamped with an unclear postmark. | Temporal: | 1 Feb 1844 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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