WCP5456

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Broadstone, Wimborne

Oct[obe]^r. 2nd. 1904

Sydney C. Cockerell¹ Esq,

Dear Mr. Cockerell

Your last note shows that it is useless hunting[?] at random among the Wallaces! George Wallace and Eliz[abeth]. Wallace² are the only two worth further enquiry. I should have told you that no further information is to be had at Hanworth, as my son went there & saw the parson, & the Registers of the 18th. cent[ury]. are lost, as also at Laleham.³[2]

The only other Wills I should like to have looked at are those of John Roberts who died at Epsom about 1868-9 and was buried in Ashstead churchyard. But his name seems to have become so obliterated on the Tomb (in which his wife and son are also buried) that a friend who looked at it for me could not find it.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace — [signature]

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P.S. The Will of John Roberts is wanted because he was a Cousin of my Mothers, and his widow used to tell my sister ^{or rather} hint that there was some property which would come to us. But we never heard more of it.

A.R.W. [signature]