Talk:Bella Wilfer/@comment-64.130.158.233-20141228234944

Bella is not the eldest Wilfer daughter, but the second to youngest Wilfer child (and daughter). We know of a Cecilia and a Susan Wilfer in passing.

"Not to encumber this page by telling off the Wilfers in detail and casting them up in the gross, it is enough for the present that the rest were what is called "out in the world," in various ways, and that they were Many.  So many, that when one of his dutiful children called in to see him, R. Wilfer generally seemed to say to himself after a little mental arithmetic, 'Oh! here's another of 'em!' before adding aloud, 'How de do John,' or Susan as the case might be." (Chapter 4: The R. Wilfer Family)

Mrs Wilfter mentions Cecilia in the same chapter.