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Thanks to everyone for all the replies - could spend a long time playing with the side by side map!
There was a Black Horse in Top Road, Summer Hill (now demolished) - too far from Pentre Broughton to be the one mentioned?

The word looks a bit like 'sans siege' - literally 'without seat', but 'siege' can also mean 'coffin'.
I should point out that this is wild speculation on my part 

Hi Tom
Do you have any context for this?

Line 1 seems to start with Katie
line 2 (at the end) Lettie should
Line 4 seems to include my dear and I
Line 5 your

Do you know what the redacted bits say? I'm guessing you may be trying to protect identities, but there could be letters there which would help us to decipher the rest.
Eddie

I was prompted to make this post after seeing a question about travel in previous centuries. My story concerns my gg grandfather, George Baker, who married my gg grandmother, Sarah Anderson, in Aberdeen in 1831. He was from Bristol and she was from Wandsworth.*
I've no idea where they met - Aberdeen, Bristol or Wandsworth, or perhaps a service station just outside Penrith on their respective ways north but I would think that going from the south of England to Aberdeen would have been a seriously long journey in the 1830s.
Interestingly, George became a mail guard and coach proprietor in Aberdeen, and ran a service to Peterhead. I thought this might be a clue as to how he got to Aberdeen, but I don't know whether any one guard/driver would do a journey as long as from Bristol to Aberdeen.
Any thoughts?
Eddie

*In their marriage record it says Wanworth. I've always wondered if the person making the record misheard the name or was having a little dig at the English (wanworth = worthless)

Thanks, GR2. I agree with all you've said. However, I was a little surprised that there was nothing on the baptism record to indicate illegitimacy.