Editorial note in blue ink — key to the following memorandum and Bible extracts
Book 1, Page 632 ·1960–1970
Transcription
A short editorial annotation in blue ballpoint at center of an otherwise blank sheet:
Written by my Mother — Mary Annie FitzSimons about her Father & Grandfather —
Extracts from the family Bible of John Hadley brother of M. A. F-S’s grand mother Maria Anne Hadley.
AI Notes
A single-leaf annotation in blue ballpoint at center of an otherwise blank sheet, numbered (1) and (2). It serves as a key to the two source documents that follow in the album: a handwritten memoir by the compiler’s mother Mary Annie FitzSimons (M. A. F-S.) on her father and grandfather, and extracts from the family Bible of John Hedley, brother of M. A. F-S.'s grandmother Maria Anne Hedley. The surname (canonical spelling Hedley per Minnie’s consistent usage on pp. 635–637) is rendered here in the compiler’s blue-ballpoint key as ‘Hadley’ — the same cursive H-e-d / H-a-d slip seen elsewhere. The sheet shows light foxing and brown specks; the lower half is otherwise blank.