| Title: | Elizabeth Fleming, Ontario Canada to her Cousin, Belfast. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1062 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Fleming, Elizabeth/34 |
| 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 1850/5: Copied by Permission of Mr W.H. Mc Cafferty 15 Glanleam Drive,Belfast 15. #TYPE EMG Elizabeth Fleming, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada to her Cousin [Castlereagh Area, Belfast?] 5th July 1898. |
| Archive | Public Record Office, N. Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 8905065 |
| Date | 05/07/1898 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 26:06:1989 LT created 06:11:1990 CD input 07:11:19 |
| Word Count | 675 |
| 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 | Ans [Answered?] 2/8/98 Owen Sound July 5th 1898 My Dear Cousin I received your very kind and welcome letter and we were glad to hear of you all being well as this leaves us at present thank God for it is one of the greatest blessings we can have, It was very kind of you to send me the vews [views?] you sent me I can see the bread cart in it that we used to get our bread from Hughes I can remember that all right we were delighted to have them and also the papers sometimes when I feel lonesome we take them and look at them and it seems to me that you do not really seem so far away after all. I know dear Cousin you put youself to a great deal of trouble for me which is a great kindness to me but I think it will come out all right yet and if it does I will be able to repay you for all you are doing for me. I may have been mistaken about the place my Aunt lived. My Grandmother Scott wrote to Father and Mother and she told them my Aunt Jane Brown was very often in Belfast nearly every week or so and that makes me think that she did not live very far from there and when Aunt Jane wrote to Father & Mother she would send me a nice little letter in it but I have not a trace of it now of course I was very young then and did not know how much they were worth to me My Brother may know more than I do about it as he was older than I was but he never seemed to want to tell me very much about it if he did know he said My Aunt formerly lived in Castlerae [Castlereagh?] and then in Comber but I have an Idea of my own I so often heard of it that it would be in Bangor the way he spoke of it he said I was sick but did not know it and I have been thinking in my own mind that perhaps he knew all about it and as I have no children of my own it might some day come to his family I am just speaking from thinking things over that has happened and if you would be so kind as to look in Bangor and Castlerae [Castlereagh?] it would be a great favour to me If my Aunt left it to me I think I have a right to it, the Reverend Arch Deacon Mulholland wrote to several ministers in Comber for me and he did not find out anything that would throw any light on it and if My brother James was not very anxious to let me know he might not say the last place she was so I think it better to try those other places Castlerae [Castlereagh?] and Bangor we have a beautiful spring and summer here and lovely weather we finished putting in our garden on the 23rd of May and everything in it looks well the next time you write tell me the name of all your children I will get my photo taken and the next time I write I will send it to you if nothing happens to prevent me from getting it taken Dear Cousin do not think me to [too?] tiresome but I am very anxious to hear or get some insight into it that would help me I was surprised to see Belfast such a fine city and splendid buildings as the veiws [views?] shows I have not much more to say this time but My husband wishes to be remembered to you all and little Bella send your little girl a kiss and except [accept?] our most united love and friendship to yourself and husband and children and all our other friends I remain your loving cousin Elizabeth Fleming PS Please to write soon and I will not be so long in writing again |
