| Title: | G.M.Farrelly, Westport, New Zealand To, "My Dear Cousin." |
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| ID | 1025 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Farrelly, G. M/15 |
| Year | 1907 |
| Sender | Farrelly, G.M. |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | coal mine worker |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Westport, New Zealand |
| Destination | USA? Ireland? |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | unknown |
| Relationship | cousins |
| Source | Farrelly Family Letters, Drumriley, Ballinamore Co Leitrim. Photocopies Donated by Dr John Dinnen, Minstercote, Much Birch, Hereford, HRZ8HZ. Tel 01981 540730. e-mail jdinnen@btinternet.com |
| Archive | Dr John Dinnen |
| Doc. No. | 709019 |
| Date | 4/11/1907 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document Added by JM, 11/09/07 |
| Word Count | 380 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | Westport 4th Nov 1907 My Dear cousin I received your Welcome P.C [Postcard?] the other week and I was very pleased to hear from you but felt ashamed of my self [myself?] for not answering your letter before but I hope to be able to keep better correspondence after this I am still in Westford I have been here for about 18 months now and I am doing pretty well I have been in constant work ever since I been here this is the greatest coal port in New Zealand they export about 12,000 tons of coal a week and they expect to double the export in about two years they are now opening at a new mine which I [sic] they started about a year ago and they will be finished in about a year I might state it is the finest steam coal in the southern hemisphere but they are greatly hampered with a river port which large vessels cant come in. I am only fifty miles from home and it takes me about 5 hours to ride through on a bike I was up home in june and. I will be home for christmas May mother sister and Brother are all in good health Will is still in Wellington he is doing fairly well his wife and three children I dont think there will be any fear of me getting tied up for some time yet although the [there?] are some nice girls here which they all barrack me about I will try and get a view of the buller gorge and send you one that is between here and reefton that is some of the finest scenery in New Zealand Mr and Miss blakely often ask after my Aunties in america and cousins in Ireland they are getting very old and feeble now Mr Blakely was a great mate of my father in the early day of the coast and school boy together at home and they are very pleased to see me every time I go out to see them they live at [capefoilwing?] about seven miles out Well dear cousin news is very scarce to I will say Au Revoir for the present hoping to hear from you soon and will remain your loving cousin G M. Farrelly Adress [Address?] Reefton New Zealand |
