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to be credited with having lived into his 103 rd year, 

 the age which he is represented in obituary notices to 

 have attained. That the above-mentioned were the 

 dates of his baptism and death you may be confident. 

 The celebration of the completion of his looth year 

 took place on July 22, 1843, when a great gathering 

 of the gentry and humble folk of the neighbourhood 

 feasted at Marlesford Hall, and had sports in the 

 park. If that celebration took place on the actual 

 anniversary day of his birth, he was some two months 

 under 102 at his death. So that your statement may 

 be unassailable, you had better speak only of the 

 dates of his baptism and death, unless you make 

 enquiries at Beccles. 



William Shuldham's circumstances and habits of 

 life were favourable to health. An energetic but not 

 overworked man, he drove a capital business, as a 

 country attorney, at Wickham Market and Sax- 

 mundham. A lover of country sports, he had for 

 the greater part of his life a house in the country, 

 first at Carlton Cross, a mile out of Saxmundham ; 

 and secondly, at Marlesford, where he built a hand- 

 some hall which, together with its small but pic- 

 turesque park, may be commended as one of the best 

 county places in the neighbourhood of Wickham 

 Market. He retained his faculties up to his last 

 illness, which did not cover more than a week or so, 

 writing letters with a firm, clear hand, and managing 

 his affairs until the last days of existence. Every 



