Ann Dobson’s letter to her daughter Caroline Isabella Shaw in the 1870’s.
Ann Cleaver was born in 1812 in Whitby, Yorkshire. She married John Ralph Dobson on 14 May 1838. They had four children in 12 years. She died on 12 January 1885 in Cambridgeshire at the age of 73 (more here). She was great-grandmother of Mabel.
Caroline Isabella Shaw was born on 29 August 1843 in Walshford, Yorkshire, her father, John, was 31, and her mother, Ann, was 31. She married George Shaw on 20 May 1868 in Elsworth, Cambridgeshire. They had ten children in 10 years. She died on 12 July 1885 in Essex at the age of 41 (more here). She was the grandmother of Mabel.
