Travel Diaries and Journals

Pages That Mention Lowestoft

Robert Suggate journal and commonplace book, 1874-1878.

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70 Sumatra

71 Macao and Lintin

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

81 Cromer in Norfolk

82 Brighton

84 A new Night-Mare

87 Phoebe Hessel

88 Shoreham, Worthing, Bognor

89 Hastings

90 Lowestoft

92 The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads

94 Gloucester City

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

107 Loddon and Brooke.

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.

Mr. Robert Suggate.

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

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