| Title: | David Alexander, Omagh to "Dear Brother", Ontario. |
|---|---|
| ID | 11 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Alexander, David/2 |
| Year | 1887 |
| Sender | Alexander, David |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Omagh, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland |
| Destination | Ontario, Canada |
| Recipient | Alexander, James |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | Donated by Donald Alexander, Wellington, Ontario, Canada |
| Archive | The Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 9511122 |
| Date | 12/03/1887 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 29:11:95. |
| Word Count | 483 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | Letters from Alexander farm, Black Park, Tamlaught, Omagh to the farm at 'Hillier', Wellington, Ontario, Canada I will be on the look out and if I can get a girl that I can recommend I will send her. Tamlaught 12 March 1887 Dear brother After a long silence I now take my pen to let you know that we are all well thank God for his kind mercies to us and hoping these few will reach you all in the same. We had a pretty good summer last summer and pretty [plenty?] crops but markets keeps low and the winter has been pretty moderate. We had a fall of snow in December and January. The harvest we have had for this number of years, but made it, lasted for five or six weeks and have had [an--?] winter weather since up to the present. So fine that we have got our corn and potatoes all in the ground but we have a change now. We have had a nice lair [layer?] of snow this morning and it is snowing at present but the days are pretty long now and I think it will not stop long with us. Dear brother you requested me to send you out a girl if I could fall in with one. I could recommend that I have been on the look out ever since I got your leter [letter?]. I spoke to too [two?] or three that I could recommend but the [they?] would not venture out to America. I could get plenty to go but I believe they would not suit you. Dear brother sister Margret is back in the asylum. Father has stood the winter pretty well and his health continues good. He can travel around the fields yet and even travelled to [Fereagh?] and back last week. I am coy to inform you that Ann Baxter is dead. She was buried on the eleventh of January. Times are pretty dull here at present. Everything is cheap but horses, and they are good price at present. You would pay from 30 to 50 pounds for a good horse and cattle is some thing dearer. Corn is seling [selling?] from 6 pence to 7 pence per stone, oat meal œ9 10s (shilling) 0d (pence) per ton, Indian œ5 10s 0d per ton, potatoes per stone three pence, buter [butter?] per pound 10 pence to 12 pence per pound. We had a leter [letter?] from my son James latly [lately?] the [they?] are well and he says he has 12 dolers [dollars?] per week. We had Miss Lindsy [Lindsay?] on tour here in August last from Pitsburg [Pittsburgh?]. She stopped with us one month. She came for the good of her health and she improved well. I have nothing particular to mention. Our friends join in sending to you in the kindest maner [manner?]. My family sends their love to you and wife and family and friends. No more at present i remain your brother David Alexander. |
