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Day in the Life

May 30, 1845

Journal Entry

May 30, 1845 ~ Friday

30th I went in company with Elder Stratton
to take a walk we walked ^through^ every appartment
of Princes Park fitted up in a vary neat &
expensive style with almost evry description
of shrubery & flowers with a pond of water
in the centre containing a variety of fish &
some swann their is a Chiness bridge over
the water & A small woodden house with
a harbor under it for small boats 1 portion
of the garden Is entirly shut up from the
Public untill her Majesty Queen Victoria shall
walk through it, we had a fair view of it
in our walks it was decorated with sharp stones
set up in end like mounds intersected with
flowers, we left this plesant walk & returned
home through the semetry the place of burying
the dead, which was through a deep valley
all decorated with flours & shrubery the tombs
in the side of the mountain were dug out of the
solid rock. After returning to the city I took
tea at Br Caines & attended council with the
officers of the Liverpool Branch & had a good time
distance 10 m

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Stratton, Joseph Albert
11 Sep 1821 - 28 Oct 1850
71 mentions
Cain, Joseph
1822-1857
16 mentions
56 mentions
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Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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May 1845
First Thursday of the month designated for fasting and prayer (later changed to first Sunday by Wilford).

May 30, 1845