| Title: | Margaret Orr, Portaferry, to John Orr, Chicago. |
|---|---|
| ID | 2031 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Orr, Margaret/92 |
| Year | 1847 |
| Sender | Orr, Margaret |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Portaferry, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Recipient | Orr, John M |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | Copyright retained by John McCleery, 80 Circular Road, Belfast,BT4 2GD. |
| Archive | Ulster American Folk Park. |
| Doc. No. | 9702148 |
| Date | 06/08/1847 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, 10:02:97. |
| Word Count | 234 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | My dear John On looking over what Jane Ellen has written I find she has told you all the news and not left me anything worth saying. You may be sure she is breaking her heart now not a beau in town but James Warnock Pat Savage and Doctor tom and they were all laid on the shelf long ago. I think you might very well send us a few (as I hear they are very plenty in America) and so prevent us from all dying old maids. This is the fourth epistle that has been written to you I hope you have received some of the others. The two first were directed to the New York Post Office. You did not tell us if you were sick on your passage out. I guess you were though. We are all waiting anxiously for another letter from you to learn what you are about and whether you like America as much as you did and all other particulars - George Greer is here at present and looks as sedate as a man of sixty seven. I really do not know of anything more that would interest you so I must make a conclusion to this grand affair. Mrs Welsh is in her usual health and she unites with us in love to you - I am as ever Dear John Your attached sister Margaret Orr* [*Anonymous genealogical note 'who later married Hamilton McCleery] |
