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I am telling the story of ten siblings from the Machell Cox family, through the letters they wrote to each other. They were born in England between 1868 and 1884; seven of them lived in England and three lived abroad, in the Colonies. One of the siblings was my great grandfather.
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Send us a Text Message.Frances reads letters written by the Machell Cox siblings where they discuss the first planes to fly in England as well as motor cars. The letters in this podcast are from 1907 up till WW2.If you have forgotten which sibling is which, or you are new to this podcast, S3E4 Ten siblings - Who is who - will give you a recap.Bernard (No.6) was a wealthy London stock broker and owned two cars in the 1930s, mainly to benefit his siblings; he never learned to drive and had a ch...
Send us a Text Message.Frances reads some letters written in April 1910 by the Machell Cox siblings.Edmund is yet again a delinquent, he is late writing his letter and thinks he should resign from the Budget.Avice is in Torquay with Bernard where he is recuperating after removal of his appendix and they tell their landlady all about booby traps.Enid describes Vera playing in an exciting hockey match at Richmond, Scotland v. England on 16 March 1910, and she also describes the sectarian riots ...
Send us a Text Message.Frances reads two letters, written by Aldwyn in Nyasaland in Feb and April of 1910.Aldwyn drew a sketch map of the mission station at Kota Kota (now Nkhotakota), showing the church, school & hospital buildings. I found his sketch, including the many buildings. The kitchen is separate to the dining room building (due to the risk of fire), and Aldwyn even drew the mud huts where the teachers lived. All Saints Cathedral is still there, running east-west, as ...
Send us a Text Message.Frances reads two letters, written by Aldwyn in Nyasaland in January 1910.A village school is being built, with mud walls and a thatched roof, but it is only completed when Aldwyn uses his rifle to shoot game, so the villagers will get some dinner as payment.The 'CJ' steamer does not arrive, so Aldwyn does a lot of walking between villages, in the mud.300 come to church on Christmas morning, bringing offerings of live chickens, firewood, flour, bananas, eggs, rice and e...
Send us a Text Message.Frances reads five letters, written by Bernard, Cuthbert, Arthur, Wilfred and Vera in February and March 1910.There is a great deal of polite arguing about whether the siblings should discuss (argue about) politics in the Budget.Bernard has appendicitis and is at the Brooklyn Nursing Home.Avice and Cecil are engaged.Cuthbert has been to a lecture and is fascinated with Shackleton and Scott, the Antarctic explorers.Arthur describes a Boy Scout visit by Robert Baden Powel...
Send us a Text Message.This episode is all about the funeral procession of Edward VII in May 1910, as winessed by the Machell Cox siblings, through handwritten family letters, read by Frances.Vera again demonstrates how she is a great letter writer, and Bernard's annotations, on the funeral programme, after WW1, were unexpected.Does anyone know any more about the King's little dog Caesar? How much of the procession did he walk in? Frances would love to know.If you have enjoyed this podcast, w...
Send us a Text Message.Frances has been in the northern hemisphere for a few months, visiting family and undertaking a great deal of Machell Cox research.Coming up in the podcast will be more stories from 1910, more hockey and Vera and Great Comp and more crossed letters, as Frances continues to unpick the story of these ten interesting siblings, born from 1868 to 1884.In May 2022 Frances gave a talk at The Hockey Museum, in Woking, about Vera, hockey and budget letters. If you visit Youtube ...
Send us a Text Message.This episode is all about hockey. Frances reads poems written about Vera and hockey in 1908, as well as letters written by Vera, describing hockey tournaments at Weston-Super-Mare in 1911 and at Great Comp, home of the Heron Maxwells, in 1912. Vera is a great letter writer, and her vivid descriptions makes it very easy to imagine the events that occurred.0:00 Intro 3:10 Vera, hockey and poems 6:34 Weston Hockey Tournament - January 1911 17:37 Great Comp Hocke...
Send us a Text Message.Frances reads a second letter, written by Matilda Machell a week later, on Thursday 27th April, 1826, from 22 Gloucester Place in London. Ten letters of Matilda's have survived, all were written in the 1820s to her favourite brother, Christopher, back home in Beverley, Yorkshire.Minnie (Matilda's daughter) kept these letters; after her death they were transcribed by her husband (Dr Cox) in 1912, for the ten siblings to read - Matilda was their grandmother.Matilda descri...
Send us a Text Message.Frances reads a letter written by Matilda Machell on Tuesday 18th April, 1826 from 22 Gloucester Place in London. Ten letters of Matilda's have survived, all were written to her favourite brother, Christopher, back home in Beverley, Yorkshire.Minnie (Matilda's daughter) kept these letters; after her death they were transcribed by her husband (Dr Cox) in 1912, for the ten siblings to read - Matilda was their grandmother. Matilda describes her piano teacher, the pia...
Send us a Text Message.Frances reads four letters, written by Neville, Edmund, Avice and Enid in January and February of 1910.Neville has had a fabulous holiday in England, and writes his last budget letter before sailing to Canada, including plenty about the politics of the day.Edmund is angry with his siblings about politics being included in the Budget and doesn't write a letter, then feels regret and writes a short one.Avice writes a long, chatty letter from Portal in Tarporley; she enjoy...
Send us a Text Message.Frances reads three letters, written by Cuthbert, Arthur and Vera in January 1910.Arthur has been setting booby traps around the house.Vera has thoughtfully provided three county hockey matches to entertain her siblings; they also go to watch the football and the rugby.The siblings decide to have a fancy dress party at home, to celebrate Vera's 26th birthday.They all go to the Duke of York's theatre to watch the play - Peter Pan, or The Boy who Wouldn't Grow Up,Cuthbert...
Send us a Text Message.Frances gives an update on where the siblings are in 1921, details confirmed by the 1921 Census. Seven siblings have been located on the census, an eighth, Aldwyn, is in London but has not yet been found. (Neville and Wilfred were abroad.)Frances reads the final items from the 1909 Christmas Budget:A Country Ramble, by a Perambulating Pedagogue - written by Cuthbert, based on Dr Cox's new book, Rambles in SurreyMeals I Have Eaten by One Who has Suffered - a firsthand ac...
Send us a Text Message.Frances reads some more from the 1909 Christmas Budget, one of the special holiday editions written annually by the ten siblings and their father, printed and bound by Bernard and read aloud in the drawing room in Longton Avenue, after tea, on Christmas Day.Avice’s contribution was called - A Day in the Life of a Govvie at Portal, all about her work as a governess for the wealthy Brooks family at a grand house, called Portal, in the village of Tarporley in Cheshir...
Send us a Text Message.Frances reads from the 1909 Christmas Budget, one of the special holiday editions written by the ten siblings and their father, printed and bound by Bernard and read aloud in the drawing room, after tea, on Christmas Day.Bernard, Vera, Neville, Cuthbert and Avice are at home in Sydenham on Christmas Day in 1909, with Father, and Arthur is coming to visit in a few days.Enid is with her family in Liverpool.Edmund is with his family in Hallam Fields.Wilfred is in Can...
Send us a Text Message.Frances reads three letters; Wilfred's letter was written in August 1909, Enid's was written in October and Bernard writes his on Chrstmas DayWilfred writes from Montana in the USA, where he is working as a miner.Enid and Cyril have had loads of people to stay, and they have been making lantern slides from their Swiss holiday photographs. Then there is a tragedy – the whole of Budget No.23 is lost in the post. The Budget letters jump straight from October 1909...
Send us a Text Message.Frances reads six letters, written in September and October of 1909, by Neville, Cuthbert, Arthur, Vera, Edmund and AviceNeville is back home from Africa; he writes about the journey and the cricket matches which were played between the first class and the second-class passengers. Cricket on a steamship. Quite bizarre. He also mentions the SS Waratah, which remains a mystery, as the ship simply disappeared in 1909.Cuthbert has seen cousins Ka and Hester, and he tells a ...
Send us a Text Message.Frances reads five letters, written in July, Aug and Sept of 1909, by Vera, Avice, Edmund, Enid and Bernard.Vera writes the fascinating sentence - for two days I have been alone in my glory. She also describes the Girls Friendly Society Festival - tea and games in the garden of one of the big houses in Sydenham. But it pours with rain, so 70 people have tea in the cellars. Dr Cox and four of the siblings are on holiday at the Red Lion in Thursley, Surre...
Send us a Text Message.Frances reads six letters, written in June and July of 1909 by Edmund, Enid, Avice, Bernard, Cuthbert and Avice.Edmund puts Vera on the black list for not sealing up the Budget envelope properly; it was open when the post arrived, although Edmund thinks all contents are safe. Enid is surprised that diphtheria is spelled with 2 'h’s. And she thinks it odd that Arthur and Dorothy spell – negotiation - with a 'c' (negociation).Avice has visited the Natural History Mus...
Send us a Text Message.Frances reads letters written by Bernard, Cuthbert, Arthur and Vera, and also a letter written by Evelyn the bridesmaid, in 1867. These letters all came from Budget series 1, number 20, from 1909.Bernard says the Stock Exchange is busy with South African mining and rubber plantation shares; Cuthbert describes the Cup Tie final at Crystal Palace and the unsportsmanlike behaviour of the players. He then causes trouble at the Berkhamsted tennis club, and argues with t...
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