EDGOOSE, Harriet

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• Name	EDGOOSE, Harriet
  Gender	Female
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I2385	Edgoose
  Last Modified	3 Feb 2026

  
  

• Notes

  A Letter written to her brother JOHN ROBERT EDGOOSE by HARRIET RIGGALL (nee EDGOOSE, 1858-1916) on 3 July 1914 from The Shelter, Sutton on Sea, Lincolnshire, England: "All love to LIZZIE & KIRK & family My Dear Brother I was so sorry to hear how sick you had been, I think the pain must have been awful to bear, I hope you have keept mending, since you got to LIZZIE. VALETTA & I are at the Shelter we have not been since you were here with us last year, I have not had a dip in the sea since you left us We have had a very trying spring, I was not able to go out all winter & at Easter I had a bad illness & have only just got the use of one of my arms, a gland in my shoulder swelled so much my left arm was quite useless. DORRIS was in Sheffield studing Elocution, & she got scarlet fever & has been six weeks in the fever hospitial, she came home last Monday, but may not mix with us yet so she has a bed in the drawing room & is spending her days in the garden Mr RIGGALL is at home but does not go into her room, KATE the cook is looking after them & MARY is here with me. BERT the .. has a little son a week old, & MAMIE has another daughter. All DAVIDs children have whooping cough & DAVIDs wife has had it to so they have had a very sick house, Mr RIGGALL has been very busy in the garden & we have abundance of vegatables. The roses have been beautiful for a month I think how you would love to see them. PAUL is working very hard & has a big exam on this next week, he is very well. FRANK is at school he has been stronger since Xmas, his heart was bad with too much foot ball, I have not been able to do any house work since Christmas I worked overmuch last Summer, so, I am taking it easy this hoping I shall be stronger to face the winter. I am glad JOHN ROBERT & family are well also JOEL & his wife Give my love to them all, It grand to know that we are Marching to Zion & we shall all meet there Much lofe from your loving Sister HARRIET RIGGALL"