| Title: | Arthur McConnell, Dungonnell, to Jane Nettleton, [America?] |
|---|---|
| ID | 1677 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | McConnell, Arthur/43 |
| Year | 1856 |
| Sender | McConnell, Arthur |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Antrim, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Canada |
| Recipient | Nettleton, Jane |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | father-daughter |
| Source | T 3081: Purchased from Metropolitan Toronto Library Board |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9406180 |
| Date | 26/06/1856 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 10:06:1994. |
| Word Count | 463 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | Dungonnell, June 26, 1856 My dear Jane, I received yours of Feb. 11 - arrived in due course, I would have written you long since only that I wished to send a small remembrance to you to Isabella and to Sarah. It was not quite convenient to manage this till now. I enclose. you a Bill on London drawn in your favour for six pounds - payable at 30 days sight. You will please give 2 pounds to each of your sisters and retain two for your own use. It is but a small matter but it is proof to you and to them that I never forget you, though so far distant. When you write you will take care to acknowledge it, that no one, who hears your letter, may be the wiser, in reference to this Remittance on this account you can mark in your Letter an A as formerly. I shall then know you have received the money safely. My own health and the health of your mother is much as usual for which we have great reason to be abundantly thankful to the Giver of every good and perfect gift. All the families of your brothers and sisters are very well with the single exception of Langford's Margaret. She had been very poorly for sometime and yesterday morning was delivered of a child six weeks before the full time. It lived about 6 hrs. and then departed. It was taken to Muckamore late last night and buried. Margaret herself seems to be going on very favourably. I saw Dr. Taggart this morning, who had been in visiting her. He says she is doing very well for which we are very thankful. I do not know in what State Arthur McConnell is and therefore cannot send you his address. He applied to his father for your address it was sent to him we therefore concluded that he intended to write to you or visit you. Mr. Wm. McElrath Sen. died about 3 or 4 months ago. He had long been in a very declining state. There is no particular change on the rest of his family. Your Uncle John McConnell has been rather infirm for sometime. He goes very little out. Latterly one of his great toes has become somewhat black and painful. All the rest of the family are well. Your Aunts Palmer and Manderson continue to be tolerably well. Your Uncle and Aunt Whiteside still live. I am glad to hear such good accounts of Alexander and Mary Johnson. I send my blessing to them, to your husband and to the rest of your children, and pray the Most High to bless you all, very abundantly both for this world and the world that is to come. I remain, my dear Jane Your ever affectionate father Arthur McConnell |
