| Title: | Elizabeth Hagan, Windermere, To Mary Hagan, Dungannon. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1300 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Hagan, Elizabeth/27 |
| Year | 1877 |
| Sender | Hagan, Elizabeth |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Windermere, Australia |
| Destination | Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Hagan, Mary C. |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | cousins |
| Source | Donated & Copyright Retained by Mrs. Margaret McGinty, 1 Ardgannon, Quarry Lane, Dungannon. |
| Archive | The Ulster American Folk Park. |
| Doc. No. | 9706244 |
| Date | 12/02/1877 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 25:06:97. |
| Word Count | 658 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | Windermere 12th Feby 1877 Dear Cousin I received your letter in due time and I hope you will excuse me for being so long in answering [it?] And I am happy to say this & leaves me enjoying good [health?] trusting when this reaches you I will find you enjoying the same great Blessing my [sister?] Helen sent a letter to directed to Uncle, and five pounds in it to Mother, and mother never got the five pounds nor any word from us until we was three years from home, and he had signed my mothers name and got the money. You need not be hard on us for not writing oftener as we cannot do it our Selves, and Sometimes we cannot get it down So you must just Excuse us, but we think it was Brothers Johns fault and not Uncle. I believe my Brother has been very foolish and Bad tempered since my mother died Helen sent home a letter and he would not let Annie see it, which him and his Wife behaved very unkindly to her. I blame all Annies down fall all on them. She was entitled to some of her fathers effects, if none of the rest of us got anything. Dear Cousin please let me know if you got any act [account?] of her whether dead or alive. I must think she is dead. I would have wrote you sooner only I was frightened we would have got a bad act [account?] of her. I have been unwell for some time Back I am troubled with the liver Complaint. My Sister Mary & Husband and family is all well. She has 1 son & 2 Daughteours [Daughters?], and [send?] their Kind love to you all. We live about three miles apart. My Sister Helen is in New Zealand and has been their [there?] this six years, and got married their [there?], to a man named Henry Swayne, and the [they?] have one child But, she has had bad luck her husband got a hurt Some time ago, in the head and about six months ago he went wrong in the head, and has been in the Asylum ever Since and the last letter I got from her he was no Better; he was a native of Ireland and a respectable man. I have sent her Five pounds to her, and Mr. Colbert sent her five pounds also, to help her along as she is left in a very lonly [lonely?] place, and we expect Brother John, for to send her some money as maney [many?] pound she sent home when she could spare it. I hope the McBrides has not got the key to carry all belonging to my late Father & Mother I send my kind respects to my uncle & Aunt & family and let me know how he is geting [getting?] his health; and send me his age I was sorrow [sorry?] to hear of my Cousin Henrys Death, but it is the Lords will and the road we [must?] all go. Dear Mary, Please send me your age. I hope when you receive this you are all enjoying good health. I send my kind love to Cousin Annie I hope you and her will enjoy many happy days as I may say she is all your guide. We wondered to hear that you was not married by this time. I send my best regards to Charles and his little Girl. I am going to send you next time a likeness of my Girl & Marys to raise your family, so you see whether Charles daughteour [daughters?] or mines is the Bigest. I send my best respects to Cousin James & Daniel also. I hope the [they?] are all married and a long letter to send me about their family I remain Dear Cousin Yours for Ever Elizabeth Hagan Cardigan post-office tell my brother John to write me himself and let me know about all my aunts uncles & Inquirers & friends Miss Mary C Hagen [Hagan?] Irish St. Dungannon County Tyrone Ireland |
