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Who are we? We are The National Archives, the UK government's official archive, containing over 1,000 years of history with records ranging from parchment and paper scrolls through to digital files and archived websites. We are also at the heart of government information policy, to ensure the survival of today´s information for the future.

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CO 1069-34-117

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  • Charlotte Roueche said:
    This is not in Libya
  • Carly Donkor said:
    The name of the village is Nzulezo

Extract from Sarah Parker Remond’s application to become a British citizen

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  • Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
    It is my understanding that the whole document wasn't actually 'written' by Sarah. Her signature is quite unlike the 'flowing, elegant script' of the petition. An amanuensis or scribe skilled in this sort of flowery expression and presentation work would have written it under her instructions and no doubt for payment.
  • Merryjack said:
    Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies
    I'm thinking a solicitor's clerk may have been the actual 'writer' of the document.
    Doctor's handwriting was probably as poor then as now, although it wasn't until two years later in 1867 that Sarah went to Italy to pursue medical training in Florence, where she became a physician. She practiced medicine for nearly 20 years in Italy and never returned to the United States, dying in Rome at the age of 68. See a lovely portrait of her here with more details of her life - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Parker_Remond
  • Jock Livre said:
    Sarah's brother Charles Lenox Remond was a firebrand orator who told a meeting in 1857 which Sarah also attended, "When the world shall learn that 'mind makes the man'-- that goodness; moral worth, and integrity of soul, are the true tests of Character, then prejudice against caste and color, will cease to be."
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lenox_Remond
  • Merryjack said:
    It is interesting that when Charles Lenox Remond married Elizabeth Magee, a native of Virginia, in Newton on July 5, 1858. The abolitionist preacher, Rev. Theodore Parker, officiated. Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810 – May 10, 1860) was an American transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Parker
  • Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
    Merryjack
    And the great Frederick Douglass, "the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century", so admired Charles that he named one of his sons for him: Charles Remond Douglass.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lenox_Remond
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass

CO 1069-367-3

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  • 2 older comments, and then…
  • rcastello69 said:
    the chair looks like it over 100 years old!
  • boneshaker said:
    this is my great grandfather. I have an additional photo of him from when he was around 20 years old. let me know if you want to see it!
  • Jackie Stclair said:
    boneshaker boneshaker
  • Jackie Stclair said:
    boneshaker My mother is a Wolford. This is my mother's uncle. Do you live in England?
  • Jackie Stclair said:
    He was knighted in 1954.

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