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of unfair dealing on his part respecting his father's will. He committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. So much unpleasantness occured on the subject of the will that the sons & daughters as before stated, went to Australia.

The only relatives our father had beyond his own immediate family that we remember to have heard or seen were some cousins of the name of Bennett. (Probably 2nd cousins.) There were two families of this name, one lived at (illegible text), viz.: Wm Bennett, who had occupied the Bishopstrow farm, that our father subsequently rented (he was a man of very inferior education) & two other families, one also named Wm