Edward's 6ister and her family later returned with her. His parents prospered in America despite early hardships and in 1845 Rebecca returned to England on a visit.
In 1843, Edward accepted the post of schoolmaster in Swillington, the birthplace of his wife. He subsequently taught in Hunslet and in 1839, he married Hannah Watson, a schoolteacher and daughter of John Watson, a wood dealer. His education was by no means complete, as he explained: 'Brought up to the plough till I was 18 years of age, and then thrown onto my own resources to make my own way as a teacher, it will easily be understood that for many years I had to devote my leisure time to strictly laborious study'.
He had received sufficient education at Barwick village school under John Irvine and others to secure the position of under teacher at a boarding school. When the lease on the farm expired in 1831, his parents emigrated to Illinois in the United States leaving him and his eldest sister Mary, who was 'in service with a respectable family'. Edward did not enjoy good health but despite all these troubles, his memories of the time are clearly happy ones. (See 'A Mother's Lament' in 'Village Rhymes'). Of the nine Burlend children born in Barwick, four died including a pair of twins before they were baptised. We did indeed, by dint of great industry and strict economy, maintain our credit to the end of the lease but the severe struggles we had to meet our payments, (led to) the gradual diminution of our little property and the entire absence of any prospects of being able to supply the wants of a large family.' With courage and self-reliance Rebecca Burlend accepted the privations and difficulties of this pioneering venture.' as corn at that time was selling well, the rent was fixed at too high a rate for us to obtain a comfortable livelihood. It records the daily struggle and also the satisfactions of homesteading in the Old Northwest: life in a log cabin food, clothes, and furniture of the period early churches and schools the unspoiled countryside and its denizens. Rebecca’s narrative, written with the help of her son, was first published in 1848 as a pamphlet for people of her own class in England who might be considering migration to America. It was a whole new world for a family that had never been more than fifty miles from home in rural Yorkshire. Louis and from there went to the wilds of western Illinois. They took a steamboat up the Mississippi to St. On a frosty day in November 1831, Rebecca Burlend and her husband, John, and their five children debarked at New Orleans after a long voyage from England. You can read this before A True Picture of Emigration PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book A True Picture of Emigration written by Rebecca Burlend which was published in March 1st 1987. Brief Summary of Book: A True Picture of Emigration by Rebecca Burlend
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