Eliza Jane Grainger nee Fleetham
PROBATE RECORDS:

SAINT ANDREW FLEETHAM
Effects under 800
13 May 1875
The will of Saint Andrew Fleetham late of Hartlepool in the county of Durham, Grocer who died 2 Dec 1874 at Hartlepool was proved at Hartlepool by Jane Fleetham of Hartlepool, widow ot the relict, the sole executrix.

SAINT ANDREW FLEETHAM
Effects under 400
13 December 1879
Administration with the will of the Personal Estate of Saint Andrew Fleetham, late of Hartlepool in the county of Durham, Grocer who died 2 Dec 1874 at Hartlepool, left unadministered by Jane Fleetham, widow the relict, the sole Executrix, was granted at Durham to Thomas Henry Fleetham of Hartlepool, Stationer, the son, one of the Residuary Legalees. Submitted former. Granted at Durham May 1875.

EDWIN FLEETHAM
Effects 3141 12s 11d
Gatenby House Wingate, Co. Durham, died 10 May 1905 Singapore, Probate Durham 3 July to William Fleetham, cashier and William Henry Carter, brick manufacturer.

WILLIAM FLEETHAM
Effects 431 11s 8d
Gatenby House Wingate, Co. Durham, died 15 Jan 1907, Probate Durham 18 Feb to Jane Fleetham, widow.

JANE FLEETHAM
Effects 966 8s 4d
1 St. Pauls Rd., West Hartlepool, widow, died 2 May 1911, Probate Durham 17 Jun to Annie Hays (wife of Michael Hays).

Having started this page I realize it's time I put some more effort into this family!!
The first known Fleetham in our tree, to date, is one Thomas Fleetham who I estimate to be born around the early 1700's.  This colour indicates no living offspring.

As at Ainderby Steeple Church is:
Michael son of Thomas and Sarah c. 9 Apr 1751
William son of William and Jane c. 10 Apr 1752
Alice daughter of William and Jane c. 14 Nov 1730

                                      Thomas Fleetham                           m.                          Barbara Atkinson
                                                                                     23 Oct 1735
                                                                        Kirby Hill by Boroughbridge 
     
                 _________________I                             bur. 29 Sep 1741
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          George               Robert Fleetham                                  m.                                    Elizabeth Reynoldson
     26 May 1736              13 Sep 1739                        m. 20 May 1771
                                    Ainderby Steeple         North Otterington, Yorkshire, Eng.
                                    bur. 10 Jul 1820
                                    Ainderby Steeple 
                                       aged 81 yrs                           
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                                                                  Jane                                                    Thomas Fleetham
                                                          c. 30 Apr 1773                                               c. 16 Nov 1777
                                                        Ainderby Steeple                                           North Otterington
                                                                                                                                d. 4 Mar 1852
                                                                                                                                      Pickhill
                                                                                                                               m. 15 Dec 1803
                                                                                                                     Pickhill with Roxby, Yorkshire.
                                                                                                                             Elizabeth Harland
                                                                                                                              c. 20 Sept 1772
                                                                                                                             North Otterington
                                                                                                                              d. 16 Nov 1832
               first three children all c. Pickhill with Roxby                   Pickhill.
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     Thomas                         Robert                    John Harland                      George                      Saint Andrew
  c. 1 Jan 1805              c. 13 Jan 1806            c. 13 Nov 1807              b. 14 Jan 1809               b. 30 Nov 1810
                                                                                                                     Durham                       Girsby, York.
                                                                                                               c. 5 Feb 1809                c. 26 Dec 1810
                                                                                                                   Sockburn                        Sockburn
    see below                                                        see below                        Durham                           Durham
                                                                                                                                                     bur. 2 Dec 1874
                                                                                                                                                Spion Kop (Old) Cem.
                                                                                                                                                          Hartlepool
                                                                                                                  see below                     m. 3 Oct 1838                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Jane Liddell
                                                                                                                                                       b. 1 Aug 1804
                                                                                                                                                        Durham City
                                                                                                                                                      c. 5 Sept 1804

                                                                                                                                                   bur. 10 May 1876
                                                                                                                                                Spion Kop (Old) Cem.
                                                                                                                                                         Hartlepool
                                                                        
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         Elizabeth                  Thomas Henry                             William                               Eliza Jane                                       Edwin                          James Andrew
       b. abt 1839                b. 6 Sept 1840                       b. 18 Mar 1842                    b. 19 Sept 1843                           b. 23 May 1846                         abt 1848
                                                 all born Hartlepool, Durham, Eng.                         
                                          d. 17 Dec 1881                     d. 15 Jan 1907                     d. 18 Jun 1918                            d. 10 May 1905                       d. 1Q 1854
                                             bur. 20 Dec                              Wingate                                                                           interred Singapore
                                    Spion Kop (Old) Cem.                
                                            Hartlepool                         m. 17 Sept 1879                    m. 18 Sept 1867                           m. 2 Jan 1879
                                                                                          Sunderland             St Hilda's Church, Hartlepool      St Hilda's Church, Hartlepool
                                                                                       Jane Snowden               George Willan Grainger              Margaret C MacDonald
                                                                                            abt 1843
                                                                                      Gatenby Grange
                                                                                       d. 2 May 1911
                                                                                      West Hartlepool

NOTES:
EDWIN FLEETHAM  1846: 1851 - 5 yrs, with parents. 1861 - 14 yrs, living with parents.  1881 - 34 yrs, residing at 19 Moor Terrace with his Scottish born wife, Margaret.  No children in evidence only a 15 yr old servant girl. Visitor, 31 year old Ann G Cribble from Scotland also in household.
2 Jan 1879 St Hilda's Church, Hartlepool - Edwin Fleetham, aged 32, bachelor, master mariner, son of Saul Andrew Fleetham (deceased), Friar Terrace, Hartlepool, by licence, both signed.
According to George Willan Grainger's notes Edwin was a master mariner and his wife was a certified teacher.
Northern Daily Mail, West Hartlepool, 15 may 1905 - Fleetham, on May 11th, Capt. Edwin Fleetham, of S.S. Grosmont, at Singapore, after a brief illness.
Wife MARGARET MACDONALD: 2 Jan 1879 St Hilda's Church, Hartlepool - Margaret MacDonald, aged 22, spinster, daughter of  Ewan MacDonald, a farmer, Friar Terrace, Hartlepool.
ELIZA JANE FLEETHAM  1843: Birth registered Stockton 1843 4th Quarter xxiv pg 221? 1851 - Jane 7 yrs, with parents.  1861 - 17 yrs, living with parents.  18 Sept., 1867 - Marriage at St Hilda's Church, Hartlepool, Eliza Jane Fleetham, aged 24, spinster, daughter of H Andrew Fleetham  (grocer), residing in Hartlepool, by banns, Cleric was D R Falconer.
Eliza Jane died Wellington 1918 death cert no. 1323. As the family were sailing to NZ, Mt Tarawera erupted, the report heard at Cape Town was that the NI had turned over. Eliza Jane left England for NZ with her husband and family.  An account of their pioneering life, written by her son, Charles Andrew Grainger, makes interesting reading.  Also there are more of her family photographs on the Grainger family page.
Husband  GEORGE WILLAN GRAINGER:  18 september, 1867 - Marriage at St Hilda's Church, Hartlepool, George William (should be Willan) Grainger, aged 25, surveyor, son of George Grainger (grocer), residing in Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland.
ELIZA FLEETHAM  abt 1839: 1841 - 18 months, with parents.
ELIZABETH FLEETHAM abt 1839: 1841 - 2 yrs, with family.
GEORGE FLEETHAM  1809: 1841 - 25 yrs, dwelling Burneston, (Londonderry) Exelby, Leeming and Newton, with wife and baby son.
JAMES ANDREW FLEETHAM abt 1848: 1851 - 3 yrs, with parents.
JOHN FLEETHAM 1807: 1841 - 30 yrs, chemist and druggist, dwelling Ripon, with wife, young daughter and an apprentice.
Wife ANN MARIA abt 1814: 1841 - 25 yrs.
ROBERT FLEETHAM 1739: Of Ainderby Steeple at time of marriage - banns.
Wife ELIZABETH REYNOLDSON: Of North Otterington at time of marriage.
SAINT ANDREW FLEETHAM 1810: Saint Andrew Fleetham was a grocer and Importer.  At the time of his marriage he was resident in Hartlepool and his wife resident at Claypath.  Witnesses to the marriage were Ralph Laider and Mary Ann Mitchell.
1841 - 30 years, grocer, dwelling Southgate St, Hartlepool with wife and two youngsters. Also in household is Elizabeth Liddell (? 80 year old mother of independent means) an apprentice and young female servant. 1851 - 40 yrs, grocer, dwelling Stripes, Hartlepool, with wife and 5 children as well as 90 yr old visitor (? mother, annuitant) Elizabeth and a servant. 1861 - 50 yrs, grocer, dwelling Northgate St, Hartlepool, with wife and 4 children.  1871 - 60 yrs, grocer, dwelling 15 Northgate, Hartlepool, with wife and 2 adult sons, plus a 17 yr old servant.
Wife JANE LIDDELL 1804: Resident of Claypath at time of marriage. 1841 - 30 yrs. 1851 - 39 yrs. 1861 - 49 yrs. 1871 - 59 yrs.
THOMAS FLEETHAM 1777: 1841 - 60 yrs, farmer, dwelling Burneston, Exelby, Leeming and Newton, with 30 year old son, Thomas, and Ann Fleetham aged 15 and a 20 year old Mary Harland as well as 3 servants. 1851 - 83 yrs, late farmer, living Westgate, Ripon with son John Harland Fleetham and his family.
Wife ELIZABETH HARLAND 1772: Daughter of John Harland and Esther Smirfitt. ? Died aged 61. Of Newton Grange at time of death.
THOMAS FLEETHAM 1805:
THOMAS HENRY FLEETHAM 1840:  1841 - 9 mths, with parents.  1851 - 10 yrs, with parents. 1861 - 20 yrs, printer, living with parents. 1871 - 30 yrs, booksellers assistant, living with parents. An unmarried, out of work 40 year old stationer living with his brother William at the time of the 1881 cencus. He died later that year. 
WILLIAM FLEETHAM 1842: 1851 - 8 yrs, with parents. 1861 - 19 yrs, railway booking clerk, living with parents.  1871 - 29 yrs, timber merchants clerk, living with parents. 17 Sept., 1879 - Marriage - William Fleetham, aged 37, bachelor, cashier, son on Saint Andrew Fleetham (deceased). Friar Terrace, Hartlepool, by banns.   1881 - 38 years, cashier, living at Wingate Grange Farm, Durham with his wife Jane. Also in residence was 13 yr old niece, Eliza Jane Spence b. Hoza Park, Yk.
Wife JANE SNOWDEN abt 1843: 17 Sept., 1879 - Marriage - Jane Snowden,  full age, spinster, daughter of Christopher Snowden (deceased). Friar Terrace, Hartlepool, by banns.    1881 - 38 years.   1911 - 67 yrs, widow, dwelling 1 St Pauls Rd., West Hartlepool with niece Annie Hays and her husband. 


                                                    Thomas                           m.                           Mary Ann Gowland        
                                                c. 1 Jan 1805              11 Dec 1841                           abt 1818
                                            Pickhill with Roxby            Burneston                   Truston Hound, York. / Binston Leonard.
               
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                  Mary                    Esther                   Emily                   William                       Thomas                   Elizabeth
           b. Brimeston      b. Monk Napton         b. Willey              b. Worfield                     abt 1854                   abt 1857
               2Q 1842               3Q 1845              1Q 1848                2Q 1850                St Giles, Durham     St Giles, Durham
                Bedale               Bridgnorth             Madeley              Bridgnorth


Notes:
ELIZABETH FLEETHAM abt 1857: 1861 - 4 years, with parents.
EMILY FLEETHAM 1848: 1851 - 3 years, with parents.
ESTHER FLEETHAM 1845: 1851 - 5 years, with parents.
MARY FLEETHAM 1842: 1851 - 8 years, with parents.
THOMAS FLEETHAM 1805: 1851 - 46 yrs, farm labourer, dwelling ? Hanley's Thatch, Broseley, Shropshire, with wife and 4 children. 1861 - 56 yrs, agricultural labourer, dwelling Sherburn St., Durham, St Giles, with wife and two children
Wife MARY ANN GOWLAND abt 1818: 1851 - 33 yrs. 1861 - 53 yrs.
THOMAS FLEETHAM abt 1854: 1861 - 7 years, with parents.
WILLIAM FLEETHAM 1850: 1851 - 11 months, with parents.




                           John Harland Fleetham                      m.                            Ann Maria Gill         
                                  c. 13 Nov 1807                     7 Apr 1836                          abt 1814  (12 May 1813 Southwark, London)
                                Pickhill with Roxby           St Mark Kennington           Borough, London
                                                                                  London
                                                                                                                                                     b. Ripon reg. district.
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        John                  Eliza Ann               Ann Maria          Thomas John             Elizabeth             Mary Jane               Mary                     Jane
     2Q 1838               4Q 1839                 4Q 1841               4Q 1843                  2Q 1846               4Q 1848             2Q 1850               1Q 1853
                               d. 1Q 1842                                                                                                       d. 2Q 1849


                                                                                          m. 3Q 1867                                                                                                  m.
                                                                                           Hartlepool
                                                                         Jane Catherine H Benson (Kate)                                                                               John Arrundale
                                                                                             abt 1843                                                                                                      abt 1853
                                                                                          Sunderland                                                                                                Slingsby, York.

                                                                                                  I
                                                                                               Kate
                                                                                           1Q 1868
                                                                                          Hartlepool

Notes:
ANN MARIA FLEETHAM 1841:  1851 - 9 yrs, with parents.
ELIZA ANN FLEETHAM 1839:
ELIZABETH FLEETHAM 1846: 1851 - 5 yrs, with parents. 1861 - 14 yrs, living with widowed mother and siblings.
JANE FLEETHAM 1853: 1861 - 14 yrs, living with widowed mother and siblings.  1871 - 19 yrs, milliner, boarding in Loughton household, Willington, Durham.  1881 - 28 yrs, dwelling No. 6 Alma Place House, Stranton, Durham, with husband and her mother living with them.
Husband JOHN ARRUNDALE abt 1853: 1881 - 28 yrs, drapers assistant.
JOHN FLEETHAM 1807: 1841 - 30 yrs, chemist and druggist, dwelling Ripon, with wife, young daughter and an apprentice. 1851 - 44 yrs, chemist and druggist, dwelling Westgate, Ripon, with wife and 4 children plus elderly father, lodger, apprentice and 2 servants.
Wife ANN MARIA GILL abt 1814: 1841 - 25 yrs. 1851 - 37 yrs. 1861 - 47 yrs, widowed grocer, dwelling 53 Scarborough St, Stranton, West Hartlepool, with 4 children and two lodgers.  1881 - 67 yrs, living with daughter Jane Arrundale in Stranton, Durham.
JOHN FLEETHAM 1838:
KATE FLEETHAM 1868: 1881 - 13 yrs, with parents.
MARY JANE FLEETHAM 1848:
MARY FLEETHAM 1850: 1851 - 11 mths, with parents. 1861 - 11 yrs, living with widowed mother and siblings.
THOMAS JOHN FLEETHAM 1843: 1851 - 7 yrs, with parents.  1861 - 17 yrs, timber merchant apprentice, with widowed mother and siblings.  1881 - 37 years, shipbroker, dwelling 93 Musgrave St., Stranton, Durham, with wife, daughter and 1 servant.
Wife JANE CATHERINE H BENSON (KATE) abt 1843: 1881 - 37 yrs.
                  

                                                            George                                 m.                            Elizabeth Mason
                                                      b. 14 Jan 1809                     8 Jul 1840
                                                          Sockburn                          Burneston                      Kirby Hill, York.
                                                         d. 1Q 1881
                                                         Hartlepool                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                   b. Bedale reg. district.
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                         I                                   I                                 I                               I                                    I                               I                                I                                   I                                   I
           Thomas Mason                   John                        Robert                  Margaret                  Elizabeth Ann              Mary                         Jane                    Miles Mason                   George
                1Q 1841                     3Q 1842                    3Q 1844                 2Q 1846                      2Q 1848              1Q 1850                  3Q 1852                     3Q 1855                     2Q 1858
           c. 30 Sep 1841         c. 18 Sep 1842
              Burneston                   Burneston                                                                                       Burneston                                              Burneston
                                                  d. 4Q 1842
                                                                                                                     m. 4Q 1871
                                                                                                                      Hartlepool
                                                                                                            Archibald Macgillaray


Notes:
ELIZABETH ANN FLEETHAM 1848: 1851 - 3 yrs, b. Londonderry, with parents. 1861 - 13 yrs, with family.  1871 - 23 yrs, living with widowed father and two younger brothers.
GEORGE FLEETHAM 1809: 1851 - 41 yrs, butcher, dwelling village of Londonderry, Exelby, Leeming and Newton, with wife and 5 children.
1861 - 51 yrs, Butcher and Farmer of 8 acres, dwelling Excelby, Leeming and Newton, with five and 5 kids.  1871 - 61 yrs, labourer in timber yard, dwelling Musgrove St., Stranton, with 3 offspring and an elderly widowed boarder.
Wife ELIZABETH MASON abt 1821: 1851 - 34 yrs, b. Westmorland. 1861 - 40 yrs.
GEORGE FLEETHAM 1858: 1861 - 3 yrs, with family.  1871 - 12 yrs, living with widowed father. 1881 - 22 yrs, stone mason, living with widowed sister in Stranton.
JANE FLEETHAM 1852: 1861 - 7 yrs, with family.  1871 - 19 yrs, servant in Scarborough.  1881 - 28 yrs, living i household of older widowed sister, Margaret and her daughter in Stranton, Durham. Also two adult brothers there.
JOHN FLEETHAM 1842: Died in infancy.
MARGARET FLEETHAM 1846: 1851 - 4 yrs, b. Londonderry, with parents. 1871 - 25 yrs, servant in household of Northing Snowdon in Rainton with Newbury and 23 yr old visitor in household of Elizabeth Snowdon, in Hunwick.  1881 - 38 years, widow dwelling 16 Johnson St., Stranton, Durham, with 8 year old daughter, as well as sister Jane and brothers Miles and George.
MARY FLEETHAM 1850: 1851 - 1 yr, b. Londonderry, with parents. 1871 - 21 yrs, servant in Ripon.
MILES MASON FLEETHAM 1855: 1861 - 5 yrs, with family. 1871 - 17 yrs, joiner apprentice, living with widowed father. 1881 - 25 yrs, joiner, living with widowed sister in Stranton.
ROBERT FLEETHAM 1844: 1851 - 6 yrs, b. Londonderry, with parents.
THOMAS MASON FLEETHAM 1841: 1841 - 6 months, living with parents on Mason (grandfather, farmer) property.   1851 - 10 yrs, b. Londonderry, with parents. 1861 - 21 yrs, printer, living with parents.


The following Prisoners, whose Estates and Effects have been vested in the Provisional Assignee by Order of the Court, having filed their
Schedules, are ordered to be brought up before a Commissioner on Circuit, to be dealt with according to the Statute, as follows :•
At the Court-House, at York Castle, in the County of York, on the 24th day of February 1839, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon.

George Fleetham, late of Newton-Grange, near Bedale, Yorkshire, Farmer's Servant: (London Gazette - abt 1840?)


SPION KOP (Old) CEMETERY, Hartlepool, Durham

Fleetham, Ada, bur. 13 Jul 1899, 3 yrs, [DO]
Fleetham, Albert Edward, bur. 15 May 1907, age: 25da, [DO]
Fleetham, Bertie, bur. 2 Mar 1911, age: 14mo, [DO]
Fleetham, Edwin Allen, bur. 28 Apr 1882, age: 4mo, [DO]
Fleetham, Elizabeth, bur. 22 Oct 1913, age: 2yr, [DO]
Fleetham, Francis W, bur. 1 Mar 1926, 1yr, [DO]
Fleetham, Jane, d. 10 May 1876, w/o Saint Andrew Fleetham, age: 63yr, [DO]
Fleetham, John Robert, bur. 8 May 1907, age: 16da, [DO]
Fleetham, Mary Ann, bur. 25 Dec 1908, age: 72yr, [DO]
Fleetham, Mary Jane, bur. 25 Dec 1908, w/o Mathew Robson Fleetham, age: 72yr, grave No Ee 75, Consecrated, [DO]
Fleetham, Mathew Robson, bur. 2 Jul 1918, w/o Mary Jane Fleetham, age: 76yr, Grave No Ee75, Consecrated, [DO]
Fleetham, Saint Andrew, d. 2 Dec 1874, age: 63yr, h/o Jane Fleetham, [DO]
Fleetham, Sidney Alice, bur. 31 Aug 1885, ?8mo, [DO]
Fleetham, Still Born, bur. 23 Mar 1919, age: 0yr, [DO]
Fleetham, Still, bur. 30 Jan 1918, age: Oyr, [DO]
Fleetham, Thomas Henry, bur. 20 Dec 1881, age: 41 yrs, [DO]
Fleetham, Thomas Henry, occupation, Master Mariner, d. 10 May 1905, interned Singapore, youngest s/o Saint Andrew Fleetham and Jane Fleetham, age: 58yr, [DO] THIS WRONG _ SHOULD BE EDWIN
Fleetham, Thomas Richard, bur. 3 Feb 1930, 2yr, [DO]
Fleetham, William Henry, bur. 13 Jul 1899, age: 20mo, [DO]
Fleetham, Wilson, bur. 13 Aug 1908, age: 37yr, [DO]
nothing for 1874 and 1876.

Northern Daily Mail
West Hartlepool
11 August 1908

Fleetham
On the 10th inst., at 6 Montague Street, Hartlepool, Wilson, aged 37 years, the dearly beloved son of Matthew R and M A Fleetham. Cortege to leave above address on Thursday at 2pm. Friends please accept this (the only) intimation. Gentlemen only.

Northern Daily Mail
West Hartlepool
1 July 1918

Fleetham
On the 29th June, at Heaton, Newcastle on Tyne, Matthew Robson, aged 76 years, relict of the late Mary Anne Fleetham. Cortege to leave West Hartlepool station on the 2nd inst., at 12-15. interment at Hartlepool Old Cemetery. Friends please accept this (the only) intimation.



Northern Daily Mail
West Hartlepool

27 February 1926

Fleetham
On the 26th inst., at 15 Alfred Street, Hartlepool, Francis Wilson, dearly beloved son of Francis Wilson and Nora Fleetham, aged 13 months. Interment Monday, 2-15. Deeply regretted.

1 February 1930

Fleetham
On the 31st ult., at 15 Alfred Street, Hartlepool, Thomas Richard, beloved son of Francis Wilson and Nora Fleetham, aged 2 years 4 months. Interment on Monday, 3pm. Sadly missed.



Northern Daily Mail
West Hartlepool

28 February 1911

Fleetham
On the 27th inst., at 49 Blandford Street, Hartlepool, Bertie, the beloved son of Thomas and Caroline Fleetham, aged 14 months. To be interred Thursday, 2.30. Deeply regretted.

20 October 1913

Fleetham
On the 18th, at 49 Blandford Street, Hartlepool, Elizabeth, beloved daughter of Thomas and Caroline Fleetham, aged 2 years. Cortege to leave above address on Wednesday at 3-15. Deeply regretted.
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There was a 1 o'clock dead-line for entries in the normal bmd columns. Failure to do this meant they put a bmd notice in the "late advertisement column at DOUBLE RATE which is what happened to the two above.



Northern Daily Mail
West Hartlepool
12 July 1899

Feltham
On the 11th inst., at 31 Edward street, Hartlepool, William Henry, the beloved son of John and Elizabeth Feltham, aged 20 months. Interment on Thursday at 2pm. Friends please accept this (the only) intimation. Deeply regretted.



Northern Daily Mail
West Hartlepool
23 December 1908

Fleetham
On the 22nd inst., at 6 Montague sSreet, Hartlepool, Mary Anne, the dearly beloved wife of Matthew R Fleetham, aged 72 years. Interment on Friday at 2pm. Friends please accept this (the only) intimation.