EDGOOSE, Harriet

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• Name	EDGOOSE, Harriet
  Gender	Female
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I4311	Edgoose
  Last Modified	3 Feb 2026

  
  

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  A Letter written by HARRIET RIGGALL (nee EDGOOSE, 1858-1916) from The Shelter, Sutton on Sea, on 30 November 1897 to her sister ELIZABETH STROHMEIER (nee EDGOOSE, 1852-1944) in Aberdeen, South Dakota: "My dear Sister Your letter written on Nov 14 reached me yesterday, you will need to take great care you can not stand at 45 what you could twenty years ago I had a trained nurse for VALETTA arm & I told her what you were suffering from & she said her sister had Ovarian inflimation & that she had it years off & on, she said you must be careful if you are to get free from it I am sending you the best receipt I know for Plum Pudding (underlined) I have mad eight from it this year one (underlined) of them is now on its way to DAVID in West Africa one I shall D.V. send to MAMIE, we hope to have one on Xmas day & one ooon New Years day & the others will hang up for birthdays I boil them when I make them & then boil them about two hours when I want them I send you a receipt for Xmas Cake one (underlined) for pound cake the richest cake you can make and the othether for a good quality of Xmas Cake. I have today made 2 pound cakes & 7 others from the receiptsent the oven should be quite as hot as for bread & kept at that heat until nearly done. try with a skewer, I am keeping very well & do not fear t to w work & tale plenty of plain food milk poridge fruit & vegatables I do not care for meat or tea & you know I never take anything stronger PAULIE is far from strong, he has a bad cough & looks very dilicate I fancy he is something like ALFRED used to be DORIE is as strong as can be & VALETTA ETTA (underlined) she calles herself is strong & bright I often see Mother looking at me from her sweet little face, she is like sunshine but when she is crop (sic) my word she can make a fuss I do long for a sight of your bairns, we are down at the sea side yet we have built a new house in Alford this summer, & we shall stay there for some time we hope I feel I cannot move about now that I have this young family it trys my strengtgth t too much, we have this week let Belle Vue on a leese for five years, the rent will about pay for the money invested in our new building, then we live much cheaper here than in Derbyshire I had every scrap of furniture brought from Belle Vue & by the time every thing gets straight we shall have a nice home, the eldest boy goes to the printing business in"