Shortly before the birth of John, Ann wrote to encourage her sister, with an enthusiastic hope that the birth of Elizabeth’s baby – and future children – would be easier than the last. “I sincerely trust dearest Elizabeth, that you will have quite as good a time as the last, […] you know it is always said that every successive confinement becomes less and less painful and God grant you may find it so” AW to ES September 1st 1834, West Yorkshire Archives, Calderdale, CN:103/4/27. Transcription by Leila Straub John Walker Sutherland was then born on the 16 September 1834, the fourth child of the Sutherland family. He was born…