Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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Monday 23rd At [half] past 7 this morning a child died. I suppose it w[oul]d be about a year old. The mother [and] child were the only sent out by the Parochial Board 5 of Glasgow, the to get quit of maintenance money.109 The father died was killed in a coal mine < near Glasgow > about 12 months since. {P}oor lady, she has barely the common necessaries of life, and no bed. I 10 have just come in from the burial it was at ten o'clock. The Captain who is an Episcopalian read the Church of England service.110 The ceremony was very imposing, as the weather < night > 15 was very cold, part of the service was read down in the 'tween decks,111 and part at the ship's side. The Carpen[-] ter made a coffin for the body, a pig of Iron broken in three pi[ece]s 20 was put in at the foot of the body, and when the service was nearly finished the coffin was slid down the a plank over the [End of Page 69]
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