My Dear Sister I hope these few lines will find you and all your familey well as it leaves us at present thank God Dear sister I was very glad to heare from you again I was sorrow to heare that you brook your arm I hope it is got quite well again Dear sister I hope you will excuse my being so neglecting I have thought about you many times and have been going to right but kept putting it of till I should get my likeness taken to send to you then I had a bad illness then Mary Anns husband died and left one little girl which I have had with me chiefly now she is married again she is still living at Yarmouth at the same publick house my youngest boy and youngest girl is livin at Yarmouth William is at his tread Carpenter Charlot is living bar maid she have been very unhealthy till the last two years now thank God she is got a great big girl that you see this is her likeness she is 19 in May I will get my likeness by the time I right again if all is well I shall be very glad to have yours I have the two dear little girls hang in my room my husband often say he should like to give them a piese of victuels when we set at meals I have not one child at home now Betsy the oldest is still at Cranmer Hall Charles and wife there children are living at Stockton Yorkshire that’s 2 hundred miles of he have got a very good place but I am afraid I shall never see them any more Joseph is at Deareham blacksmith at a coalmakers (coachmaker?) shop he comes home now and then of a Saturday night and go back on Monday morning Hannah still lives in Reepham she have 3 children and very near another John have 3 children so I have 9 grand children so I have told you a little about them all we have had a very favourable winter thank God for coales have been 2 and 6 per hundred wait we have been used to have them at 1 and 1-2 per hundred I supose you do not burn much coals every thing have been dearer this winter now Dear sister I cannot tell you moch about your sisters and brothers I have not seen Charlot all winter but I heare from her some times she is very poorly at times I thought I would go before I rote but I would not put if of any longer this time I went to see Hannah last summer they seems very comfortable I have not seen William and Charles for a very long time they have got 2 of the oddest women for wives that I ever knowed that there is not pleasure of going but I think we shall go this summer if we speared my husband see William in Norwich a little time ago he ask us to go he look quite an old man he drink a great deel I am sorrow to say it was not like him when young now I must conclude with our kind love to you and your husband and family I should like to see you all but I hope we shall all meet in heaven pray God it may be so no more from your loving sister and brother Mary & Joseph Burton

good buy God bless you all