The great trial is over; the day after I wrote the above my beloved companion was called to the inheritance of the saints above & his pricey spirit left its mortal remains with out a sigh. My current affliction is the early prospect of a separation from my beloved husband who’s now on his deathbed. At present we don’t have any funds and consequently nothing is being completed. He didn’t appear in poor health and we hoped that in time he would get better from the shock he had received and Edward Garrard being in residence he did everything in his power to soothe him. As Edward Heathcote was the organist at Southwell Minster at the moment, and had already supervised work by Buckingham, in 1821 and 1825, on the organ initially put in there, it appears possible that he was given the task of supervising the order for the organ destined for Paihia, and that Catherine then took over the responsibility of ensuring that it reached its meant destination.
Martin Renshaw, in his treatise on the organs associated with John Marsh, refers to a barrel organ constructed by Alexander Buckingham in 1829 for ‘Mr Heathcote of latest Zealand’, which was directed to the Rev’d Henry Williams. On receipt of Bishop Williams’s letter, Mrs. Heathcote printed the enchantment, and labored with such prompt energy that along with earlier private gifts for which he thanked her, the Bishop wrote that on December 24th, 1869, the Secretary of the Church Missionary Society had advised that he had obtained from Mrs. Heathcote subscriptions amounting to £333 12s., in order that including the Society’s grant of £250 he could now draw for £583 12s. By the top of September, 1870, the Bishop acquired further remittances of £800. The Bishop thanked his sister on February 20th, 1871, for an extra £200, and once more on May twenty fifth, 1872, for an additional £200, which introduced the amount of her collections as much as £1,533, and he wrote that the Church Missionary Society Committee had granted one other £250 which made their share £500, and the full complete to that date, £2,033. With the amount now in sight it was determined, after consultation with Archdeacon W.L. He’s now apparently unconscious of every thing however as much as the last day or two his thoughts had been in so heavenly & submissive a frame that it would appear egocentric to want to detain him though we who love our husbands love their company so well that we don’t wish to part with them.
He was intending to go to the Birmingham festival by means of somewhat change and was to pay a go to to Mr Gornelt at Lichfield on his method; every factor was ready but in the course of the evening previous to his departure a very dangerous cough got here on with other unpleasant symptons which after all prevented his going. But because the outer man decayed the inside man became extra & more fitted for its great change. After he became delirious he talked a substantial amount of you, William, Henry, Marianne, & the mission, said he was going out as a missionary & gave discover of a Missionary assembly. I have discussed the state of affairs with him and instructed him how I really feel and he has been devastated and made murmurs about him going if I would like him to. Writing to his cousin and brother-in-legislation, Edward Garrard Marsh, he says ‘Our intention is to have a building consecrated for the specific purpose of worship; we now have the body ready, and prepared for going up. Edward died on 23rd January 1835, aged 38, and was buried alongside his mom-in-legislation, Mary Williams. But Mr Williams aspired to more than a Church; he should wants have an organ inside it; and prepared to endow the Church, when it ought to be constructed, with pretty much as good an instrument as his means would allow.
Richard Hird, of the British Institute of Organ Studies, hazards a guess of nearer £80/ninety plus carriage. It isn’t identified how much the organ cost however the value of comparable instruments in the late 1840’s was around £64, and an extra sum would have been required to ship it out to New Zealand. I had contemplated suicide when I used to be fifteen but assured myself that I could be in a position to interrupt away within just a few years but four years on I realise, regardless that I don’t should see or hear her day by day, I’m carrying her voice around with me inside my head and all my choices are pretty much compelled from the way in which I’ve been brought up. Although the Rottweiler does not often chew with out provocation, even being cornered and held by one of those canine is a very unnerving experience for meter men, supply persons or neighbors wandering into the yard while the owner is absent. Though he was at the time not himself it showed the bent of his thoughts even in delirium. Last summer he had some heavy home afflictions which I shall decline entering upon but poor Edward’s nerves I am persuaded acquired their death blow at the moment.