Is this a clue to solving the Tunstall mystery?

Going back to 1870, there was a letter I missed because I thought it just a condolence. It was from Mr Gillett of Rose Villa Halvergate. He sent it on November 18th 1870. It has been read so much in the past, it is falling apart. It is addressed to Jane Betsy and her husband. It enclosed something, we have to guess what that something was. The enclosure  has not been kept. This is what it says:-

"Rose Villa Halvergate

    Novm 18th 1870

         Mr Gillett herewith begs respectfully to offer Mr Skinner the enclosed thinking the contents so consolatory that he and Mrs S might derive consolation, and a desire to retain them, altho' it may bring to remembrance the sad loss they have sustained for which he offers his sincere sympathy having himself passed through the like troubled waters of affliction, but in the midst all it is the christian's part to be submissive to the Divine Will.

   With this he presents his condolence to Mr and Mrs Skinner and family"

   Here is a new name in the story of Jane Betsy and Tunstall.

    When I looked at the 1881 census  for Tunstall, (11 years after the letter) I found a Daniel C Gillett aged 56, born in Havergate, living in a Farm House, farming 430 acres employing 1 boy and 11 men. With him is his nephew, Robert Moore, the farm steward. Also with him was William Gillett, his brother, aged 66.

   Had Mr Gillett sent a proposal to rent the farm with his condolences? As their eldest son had died three weeks previously, did he think Jane Betsy and James Pollard might wish to quit their home?

   The logical thing to do was to try to trace Daniel C Gillett and William Gillett in the censuses. I only found William visiting a farm in Montgomeryshire in 1871. William Gillett is on the census as a landowner, aged 58 and born in Freethorpe Norfolk.

   There is no indication in the 1871 census Jane Betsy is employing any help in the house, it is down to her only surviving son and daughters to help her run the farm and the house.

    In 1875, Jane Betsy's daughter Louisa died in Norwich. It is almost certain Jane Betsy took the decision to leave her birthplace and family home that year. She and her girls are living in Heigham Road, Norwich by the spring of 1876. The letters her daughter Emma Jane kept indicate her mother is finding the move very hard and Harry's letter from Cresswell Terrace, Sunderland,  suggests it is all affecting her health and urges her to "be sane" and see a doctor.

   But, if the Gilletts wish to take over the farm, Jane Betsy still has a son living. Harry might object. 

   Before I found the letter and realised I hadn't transcribed  it,  I chased Harry all over the area in various directories and found him in Freethorpe in 1879, and earlier, where four of his children are born. Kellys for 1879 list him as shopkeeper, coal merchant, carrier and post office. His foray into farming in Burlingham St Edmund ends in bankruptcy.

  There are no Gilletts in Tunstall listed in the 1891 census. The farmer most likely to be in Jane Betsy's former home are the Hales or Nalers from Freethorpe. Apart from that there are a lot of farm labourers including the Becks from Moulton, marsh men, an unemployed dairy maid, a game keeper and a wherry owner. In 1901, the Becks are cattlemen and horse team managers. I mention the Becks, because the name features in Mary Boult's letters as working in the Allard's dairy in Moulton St Mary.

   The pink pins on the map are an attempt to locate the Skinners, Bately's and their many relatives. James Pollard Skinner, Jane Betsy's husband, and his father were farming in Tunstall in the 1841 census. James Pollard qualifies for a vote in the elections in the 1840s and later, at a time when property and freehold ownership was a necessary qualification for the right to vote. James Pollard's widow, Jane Betsy left Tunstall in 1875, when her nephew James Thomas Skinner and his sisters Alice and Eleanor move in and run it.

   What Mr Gillett might have been offering is to buy or lease, some of the Skinner horses. When the Skinner horses are sold by auction, in 1876,  Mr Gillett puts some of his horses up for sale as well.