The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

Here's one from the U - Tube Video :

My Dear Grandchildren,
It's a melancholy occasion which has brought me here on this present ocassion. You have lost a most intelligent mother. And I, a most affectionate daughter. When a child, she was a pupil of Faith. and Your father and she knew each other from childhood. I was present at their marriage. And in the presence of the Clergyman presented them with a family Bible, observing that they had known each other so long, had opportunities of learning each others temperaments & dispositions and their married life could not but be a happy one and that they would stick to each other. I would advise you children, to stick together, to cling to your loving father. Be a comfort to him and may God bless you all is the prayer of your affectionate grandfather [Thomas Birch?]. [???] on January Twenty-sixth, Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-four, at the office of the London Phonograph Company, 62 Broad Street, London. [Witnesses.]



I think that's as accurate as i can hear !

A BIG THANK YOU FOR THAT WRITTEN WORD!! Brian Keith

Agree with the earlier poster, this would seem an ideal case for the "History Detectives" on Public television...they are always asking for viewers to email them with interesting potential cases. Hopefully they are big-budgeted enough to travel to the U.K.! John