Web Translator's Comments

The pages are best viewed using a tall but narrow window.

The book is divided into 9 chapters, there is no contents page and the chapters are simply numbered, there are no titles for each chapter. The titles shown on the web index are to assist in finding parts of the life.

The book is part biography, by an anonymous author, part letters. Internal evidence suggests that the author was Jane Phillips who was resident in the Fishwick household at the time of the 1841 census.

In chapter 9, around the time of the Mrs Fishwick's death it is difficult to tell what is letter, what is the biographer's diary extract. The book uses the same font and margins throughout except for a smaller font for verses. In the web version letters are in a sans serif font and indented, the main text is in a Roman font. Verses are therefore  set to match the original text. A sample page shows the general layout.

The author used asterisks to show omissions from letters and these have been left in. There are a number of occasions when words are italicised, presumably representing underlining in the original. These italics have been kept.

Mrs Fishwick was the wife of George Fishwick, a mill manager in Scorton, who was a leading Lancashire Methodist who founded two chapels, at Scorton and Hollins Lane. A biography of George can be found as Chapter 11 of Apostles of Fylde Methodism by John  Taylor. A biography of Mrs Fishwick's father, Roger Crane, forms Chapter 3 of the same book.