North Place
St Just
Oct 10th 1917
dear Neice
i have just had your address i thought i would
write to you to let you know i am still in the land of the living it is a great maney
years since i saw you i have often thought about you i saw your son some time ago i told
him i would write to you i am your aunt Jane i am a very old woman now nearly 85 i am the
only one of your family left i am not able to do very little now i suffer from indigestion
i am over to Carbis Bay staying with Mrs Beckerley i am a great Aunt to her that is ware i
saw your son i have given him my photo for you to see and my son John Henry well dear i
should like to see you but i know i shall not in this life but i hope to meet you in
heaven i feel my Time is almost up i live by myself My son is in Plymouth we are a long
way apart. My husband is dead 18 years next January prhaps you know i was marred twise. My
second husband had 6 children the are all dead but two one of them is in Cambourne the
other is near Exeter so i do go a little to one place and another it is all very well to
go to see our friends but i am glad to i goat a little home to go to the are all very good
to me & kind My dear josephine i am so Glad i have found you out that i should write
you i saw jofney some thirty or more years ago & dickey he have been to my house i
forgot the names of the rest tell them all about me & remember me to all of them and
to all of your children i think your son is a very nise young man i fancey i can see a
little likness of his grandmother that is your mother when i look at him i see your
Husband is dead i did not know him when one lose a good Husband you louse all your company
i was very sorrey when i heard about your dear Mother death she didnt live long after
leaving home its no wounder you felt it so greatly not to see her dear. Josephine i have
often picturd you all when i did go home to years when you was all very little children
how people memery do flash up sometimes mine do noua and again but the only Thing that i
do greave about is my hearing i am gone so this last twelve or fourteen years i do greave
about it a lot
My address is J Trenery
11 North place
May 8 1918
St Just Cornwall england
Dear Niece
i received your very kind letter also the phot i
was pleased to get it i am so sorrey you are so ill dear i hope The lord will spare you to
your children there is many have had ulcerated stumach yours you say is ulcer on the
stumach well dear Josephine i see all my nieces & nephews i new dickey he use to come
to my house at st Just & John came to see me when he was home i should like to see you
all if i could people say you are like me do you think youar My sister Joanna died 15
years ago i am the only one living now my son John Henry is a Boot Maker in Plymouth is
uposs.. you know he married Hannah she died two years ago now he is married again to your
half sisters daughter she is Coal Mary for her mothers i am living by my self but railey i
didn’t ought to be i ought be with someone but dear niece im not ab to do much i
would rather keep my own little home if i could i am now on a visit to Janes my nieces
daughters i am her great aunt the live at Carbis Bay i been away from home now two months
i expect to go home in a week or too i am almost to old to go away visiting now i
don’t Expect to be here a great wile longer but i now have a better home after this i
shall be with my .. isur aware i shall meet all my love ones i shall be far from a world
grief & sin with God eturnaly put in i hope dear niece i shall meet you there i am
derterment topress on ward that no one shall take my crown Mrs Howes in Helstone sent a
letter from Johns son Clifford he is very well & goin origull right we goat lovley
wether is lovley we havent goat no flowers in the Heges like it is over here St Just is
rather Baron cuntry but i like my home i was home to years a few years ago my mothers
house is all gone i couldn’t tell ware the house stoud grass growing all over Selina
son Joseph Henry he is a united methodist preacher i have not heard from him since he is
marred he is quite the Gentelman he did know me once wen he did come to my house for his
holaday but now he don’t know his poar relation my dear Josephine i could tell you
lots of news if i could come to talk to you but that will never bee i hope your son Willie
got his discharged before now well dear this war is dredful but we should never know our
friends if it hadent been for this war i did not think i had anney friends nor relations
till i herd of your son willie i am very glad i did see him i hope i shall see John as
well he is coming to helstone again sometime give my love to all my nieces and nephews and
to all there children i am there great Aunt My writing is Bad i hope you will be abel to
read it willie was telling me that your husband is dead 10 years ago my husband is dead 19
years last January when i lost my husband i lost all my company he goat 2 daughters living
2 sons & 2 daughters dead one daughter is in Cambourne the other is near Exeter Bothe
marred with famlies one daughter goat thee or four in this war Every Thing is three Times
dearer then before the war we are ration out in meat butter lard and different things we
don’t see no curants figs sugger half pound to each one i am aloud half pound our
bread is a dark Brown we use to put ID shillings farther then we can a pound
now i have told you a lot of news i hope you will
be better before you get this letter i am never very well i have goat my mothers complaint
indestion a bad coff i feel so weak in my Bowles i cant tell what to do sometimes give my
love to your children i should dearly love to see them try all of you to meat me in heaven
i remain yours most loving Aunt
Jane Trenery
My friend would had written this letter for me but
I thought you would like me to do it as you will see its old fashion like myself but they
all say it is good for me at 86 years.