| Title: | Elizabeth Fleming, Ontario to her cousin, Belfast. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1066 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Fleming, Elizabeth/65 |
| Year | 1897 |
| 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 1850/2: Copied by Permission of Mr W. H. McCafferty, 15 Glanleam Drive, Belfast 15. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8903125 |
| Date | 10/12/1897 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 21:10:1993. |
| Word Count | 739 |
| 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 December 10th 1897 My Dear Cousin It was a great pleasure to me to receive your very kind letter and to hear of yourself and your husband and children being well and that you had recovered from such a severe illness and it is my earnest wish that you will be spared a long life to be a comfort to your husband and children and I am glad to hear of all my friends I am in hopes of seeing them all some-time but if I do not Dear Cousin I trust we will all meet in that home our Heavenly father has provided for all who love him, now I am going to tell you I have been married for twenty six years and I have had three children they all died in their infancy none of them was spared very long to us to brighten our home the longest lived eight months and both of us my husband and myself felt that our house was lonely and sad without a child so we adopted a bright dear little girl she was only fourteen months old when we took her and she will be three in March she is a lovely child and we think as much of her as if she was our own and you wanted to know about my Brother James I have not seen him for over a year he lives about fifty miles from here and he is well off and has everything to make him comfortable and he knows just as well how to take care of it some times I think them that has much would like to have more #PAGE 2 I forget to tell you my little girls name it is Isabella my Brother James has been married twice his first wife died without any family, they have five children one boy and four girls they are all fine children their names are all Maggie, James, Mary, Alice Maud, and Alberta, and Dear Cousin I would like if you could find out how far Comber or Castlerae [Castlereagh?] is from Belfast as my Aunt Jane Brown lived in Castlerae [Castlereagh?] and then moved to Comber when my Brother found out that I was going to look a little after it he did not want me to know anything more about it I was thinking if it would be advisable to put a notice in some of the Belfast papers if there was a Jane Brown lived eight or ten miles out of Belfast or perhaps nearer some time about thirty or forty years ago Dear Cousin if I was only talking to you I could tell you all the news and so many incidents that has happened that makes me know that I was the one she would leave it to that there is not a doubt in my mind about it and unless I find it out myself My Brother will never let me know anything about it I often think that if I could I would like to go to see you but it would be very hard for me to get away from home but some time I may be able to go and you might tell some of the rest of our friends to send me their photos if they had them taken for I am sure I would love to #PAGE 3 get them and as the Christmas time is drawing near I would like if you could spend it with me or me with you there is not much talk about war here we do not feel alarmed about it but it is hoped that it will not come to that there is lots of people here that take trips to the Old country and comes back safely some goes for sight seeing and some in search of health and they go so quickly now that it does not seem so far away I think I must draw my letter to a close as I have written a very long one and my husband wishes to be remembered to you all with the warmest feelings of friendship and little Bella sends a kiss to your little girl and seems very much interested in you all when we are talking about you now Dear cousin be sure and write to me soon again and except [accept?] my love to your self [yourself?] husband and children and all my Cousins Elizabeth Fleming |
