| Title: | Elizabeth Fleming, Ontario to "My Dear Cousin", [Belfast?]. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1061 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Fleming, Elizabeth/25 |
| Year | 1898 |
| Sender | Fleming, Elizabeth |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Belfast, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | cousins (haven't met) |
| Source | T 1850/4: Copied by Permission of Mr W.H. McCafferty, 15 Glanleam Drive, Belfast 15. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9403193 |
| Date | 04/05/1898 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 15:03:1994. |
| Word Count | 727 |
| Genre | |
| Note | N.B. (n. Brown; married William Fleming; mother was Mary J. Scott and father was James Brown; they had three children, all died during infancy) |
| Transcript | Owen Sound May 4th 1898 My Dear Cousin I write to you to let you know that I received your very kind and welcome letter and I suppose you would be thinking that something had happened to me that I did not answer it sooner but I will tell you my reason for it, I wrote to the Lord Mayor of Belfast the Editor of the Belfast News to see if he could assist you any in trying to find out whatever you could but I have not received any answer to it yet, and if there is anything that I would have to do in regard to giving any power to do it, Dear Cousin I would like if you would undertake it for me and if ever I receive anything from it, I will repay you for all your trouble it was two weeks after to you that I wrote to him and I am sure you went to a lot of trouble to find out what you did and got along well and I hope you will be successful in finding it out I feel quite positive about it being for me if I can get on the right course to get it the letter you sent said about Goverment [Government?] Stock being sold we do not understand what that means I suppose there is a difference between this country and your country I am sure your son must be a very intelligent young man to write to so many places about it for me and was so successfull [successful?] in doing what he done I am sure it is very kind of you dear Cousin to send us the papers so often but I was surprised to read of such terrible murders as there is in them we have not anything so cruel in this Country, I have not any views of Belfast I would like to see some but it is a great deal of trouble you go to, to send them I hope it will be in my power some day to repay you for all your kindness to one, but I think we will see it some time yet we are all well but the weather is dull here yet I will send you our pictures this summer I was glad to hear of your Uncle being well and in good health and hopes he will long contimue to have it as it is a great blessing to have good health, you wanted to know what Business My Brother James was in he has a farm but he does not work it, he keeps the Post Office and carries the Mail, he is a County Commissioner and Conveyancer Clerk of the Township and one [on?] the whole is one that fortune has smiled on, and I feel sure he knows about the money that is coming whenever I am there he speaks about it and says it is someplace but not any satisfaction in the way he says it, he says I have Money in the bank and I think he knows more about it than I do and when you write tell me if your son went up to Dublin at Easter My husband and little Bella is well and I am fairly well myself only I am very anxious Dear Cousin if there is money coming to me that I would like to get it for neither my husband nor myself is very strong and it would be very useful to us now as we are beginning to wear up in years I suppose I need hardly ask you for you seem to think it a long way out here but we would be delighted to have you and your husband or indeed any of your family come to see us I would like to know if you ever get any word from our friends in New Zealand if you do let me know how they are and how they are getting along I remember our Cousin Agnes the world is wide and we get separated far but there is our home for us where we can all meet an unbroken family Dear Cousin and the time even the longest is not long with Our love to you and all your family and all our friends I remain your loving Cousin Elizabeth Fleming Owen Sound Canada Ont. [Ontario?] |
