| Title: | [William Porter?], [Illinois?], to his Mother, [Desert?], [Co Down?] |
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| ID | 2149 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Porter, William/3 |
| Year | 1877 |
| Sender | Porter, William |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | |
| Sender Religion | Presbyterian |
| Origin | Chebanse, Illinois, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Co. Armagh? N.Ireland |
| Recipient | |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | son-mother |
| Source | D1152/3/29: Presented by Mr Charles Best, Mullaghglass, Bessbrook, Armagh |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9409431 |
| Date | 12/03/1877 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT/JW, 22:09:1994. |
| Word Count | 329 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Dear Mother you say you would like to now [know?] how Brother Andrew is as for him he sold his place and went home to live with his daughter Margret Rowlan and Mary teaches school and Mary Ann livs [lives?] out so that sarah Jane and Martha is so displeased with him for leaving them with out a home that the do not speak and there is much letter a righting [writing?] betwixt them and there father every once and awhile [a while?] but I want you to not mention it as the might come to hear it, and as for sister Bell she is well and she livs [lives?] in a house of her own and has 70 dollars a year to keep her and she pays Charls [Charles?] 20 dollars a year for keeing [keeping?] her cow summer and winter uncle Andrew comes up hear [here?] once in awhile and stops all night with us and I think he looks as smart as ever he done Thomas Creags [Craigs?] family are all well now as for our selves we are all well and is quite happy but Jane says that when she gets rich she will go home a gain for the winters is so long hear [here?] that she would not stop hear [here?] all the time and at any reat [rate?] she would like to see you all again as we are sorry to hear of your illness but think it is very likly [likely?] [----?] what she will never see as I would not go home again for all the land you have got and I think it strange that there is so many stops there when a few weeks would [rid?] them of it you may think that this is not what [wright?] to have sent to you but I need not begin to tel [tell?] you what i think as it would only vex you Please give this to my Mother |
