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- 1841 British Census of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England
Henry Bass - 45 - Male - Draper - Not born in County
Sarah - 40 - Female - Milliner - Not born in County
Thomas - 15 - Male - Born in County
Henry - 15 - Male - Born in County
Elvira - 14 - Female - Born in County
Sarah - 12 - Female - Born in County
James - 10 - Male - Born in County
William - 9 - Male - Born in County
Fanny - 4 - Female - Born in County
Wayside Sketches (Excerpt)
Chapter I
I was born in Olney, Buckinghamshire, England, November 10th, 1827. Very pleasant are the memories of that home where I first drew the breath of life. No home that I have ever seen has seemed to me to come up to its standard; no mother to so completely fill the sphere and control all the machinery of the household with such a firm, wise hand, as did my mother hers.
I was the fourth of a family of seven - four brothers and three sisters. Very strong was the bond that bound us together. The lease difference arising between us was always referred to our mother, from whose judgement we never thought of dissenting. I have no remembrance of having to learn to obey my parents; that lesson was learned from the earliest dawn of reason. My father, Henry Bass, was a man of noble, generous disposition, nervous and impulsive, and I have often thought that the description of Job’s character exactly fitted him - “an upright man, one that feared God and eschewed evil;” carrying on for more than forty years the business of draper and clothier. His earnest prayer for his children often found utterance in the words of the Psalmist, “that our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth, and our daughters as corner-stones, polished after the similitutude of a palace.”
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Bassett Family Association Database
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