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1. on Friday July 7, 2017 at 6:08 pm | Reply Peter T

   The following commentary is in the History Society Newsletter of January 2001, written by me:

   “This letter was sent to ‘The Reliquary’ by the ‘late Mr. S Swindell’, perhaps the one who farmed from Flaxdale for much of the nineteenth century. The only John Alsop in the 1841 census is a 30-year-old farmer living on the site of Green Gate Cottage, so perhaps it was his father that wrote the letter. Julie Bunting in the 1992 Peak Advertiser article, suggests the celebrations were part of nationwide rejoicings at the exile of Napoleon to the island of Elba in 1814.”

   It is interesting that it could also have been during Wakes as the letter is dated the 16th of July. In 1814 St. Peter’s Day would have been a Wednesday, so if they calculated it the same way as now Wakes Saturday would have been the 2nd of July.

   The local Oddfellows Lodge was not formed until 1836, so there would not have been an Oddfellows Dinner then.

   
   

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