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Anne Slade

We know even less about Anne (1829-).  Rather noisy and boisterous she tries hard to stay on at school, knowing that her father has it in mind to apprentice her as a milkmaid out in Wiltshire.  At one point a fashion for learning French swept her school and Anne tried hard to get her parents to pay for the lessons.  All except her mother argued against this, including, perhaps surprisingly, Kezia, since they saw no sense in it.  Charlotte took her side, advancing the somewhat dubious line that Anne might, one day, go out to visit Henry in Australia.  The others spot the rather obvious hole in that line and it seems that Anne retained her ignorance of French.  Nevertheless, she did take extra music lessons as a special treat.  By March 1842, now aged only thirteen, Anne has left school and we hear one or two mentions of her, including a confirmation, thereafter.  The Parish Records give us no mention of her future, but, according to Mrs Fuller, she married the partner of Dr Workman (i.e. her brother-in-law), living next door to her sister Charlotte in Reading.