Presentation to Miss Edith Beardsail of Worship

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 38, 13 September 1890, Page 3

Presentation to Miss Edith Beardsail of Worship

On Wednesday, • the clergy and Sunday school teachers connected with the Priory Parish, Worship, presented Miss Edith Beardsali with a handsome walnut Davenport, inlaid -with amboyna and holly, as a mark of their esteem and respect on the occasion of her marriage to the Rev. Arthur Hermon, which is fixed to take place on the 31st inst. Miss Beardeall has for several years taken an -active part in the management of the Priory Infant Sunday school, and it was'felt that the present occasion •could not be allowed to pass over without some substantial recognition of her services, as her loss will be keenly felt and deeply regretted. The following suitable inscription was handsomely engraved in silver on the Davenport — "Presented to Miss E. Beardsail by the clergy and teachers of the Worksop Parish Sunday Schools on the occasion of her mar- ' riage, July 31st 1890." The recipient of 'the gift* will leave England at the latter end of August for Feilding, New j Zealand, so named after Colonel Feilding who, with,. the Duke of Manchester, took up land in the early days of colonization in New Zealand, where the Eev. A. Hermon has a living. The writing desk was accompanied by the following letter :— We the clergy and teachers of the Priory Church Sunday schools beg your acceptance of the accompanying writing desk as a token of our love and esteem. We take this opportunity of congratulating you on your approaching marriage and we earnestly pray that God's blessing may rest upon your work, and the home in the new world to which you are going, a=id that every happiness this world can afford may ever attend you and yours. Then follows a list of the "subscribers:— There can be no doubt that Miss Beardsall's loss to the schools will be one which it will be difficult to replace, for not only has ahe been in lefatigable in her efforts on behalf of the schools, but she Has . Endeared herself alike . to the olergyi P the teacher?* and th s holars The fcride >and bridegroom propose spending their honeymoon in Scotland. Ptom the Gainsborough News of Ju^lSth 1890.