Pages That Mention Lowestoft
Robert Suggate journal and commonplace book, 1874-1878.
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70 Sumatra
72 Sailors' Leave on Shore at Canton
73 Pulo Penang or Prince of Wales Island
74 Seamens' work when at Sea
75 Singapore
76 The Thames
77 The River Arun and Arundel
78 The Yare River
79 The Tyne River
80 From Newcastle by Land
82 Brighton
84 A new Night-Mare
89 Hastings
90 Lowestoft
92 The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads
95 The Range of Cliff from Lowesloft to Yarmouth
97 The Robin and the Snake
99 The Sea-Side walk from Gorleston Haven.
101 Tunbridge Wells.
102 Gravesend
103 The Pelican Island
104A Exeter, Exmouth, and Sidmouth.
104 Bath
105 Calne
106 Stamford
108 Ipswich
109-110 Southwold
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many sources, and has sometimes an antiquarian and historical importance, and it is very natural, that it might partake of the same hereditary character as had been annexed to the office, or lands, with which it has been associated; as Suggate might possibly come from Surrogate Latin (Surrogatus), one substituted or appointed in room of another, a deputy.
My Grandfather had two sons only, my father William the eldest, and my uncle Henry [illegible?]. My father followed the business of farming, and my uncle the profession of medicine, and after the usual and necessary course of instruction in the hospitals of London, was appointed assistant surgeon on board the old Asia man of war, at that time a vessel of some renown.
My father purchased a little farm in the parish of Carlton Colvile, near Lowestoft, Suffolk, and I was born in 1806, and as soon as I was big enough my occupation was fetching the cows home from their grazing grounds for milking, and driving back to the same, also keeping designing pigs in authorized bounds. Eight youngsters of whom I was the eldest, left our good parents, after finding food and raiment for us, but little money to spare for our schooling, nevertheless Whenever I could be spared from the duties of the farm, I was sent either to a school