Title: | Eleen [Ellen?] Quin, Barrytown, to Her Mother. |
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ID | 2180 |
Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
File | Quin, Eleen/30 |
Year | 1878 |
Sender | Quin, Eleen (Ellen?) |
Sender Gender | female |
Sender Occupation | unknown |
Sender Religion | unknown |
Origin | Barrytown, New York, USA |
Destination | Ireland |
Recipient | unknown |
Recipient Gender | female |
Relationship | daughter-mother |
Source | D 1819/2: Presented by Samuel Park, Esq., The Square, Stewartstown, County Tyrone, [Ireland?]. |
Archive | Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
Doc. No. | 9012058 |
Date | 01/01/1878 |
Partial Date | |
Doc. Type | EMG |
Log | Action By Date Document added by S.K., 17:01:1994. |
Word Count | 299 |
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Note | |
Transcript | Dear mother i write to you now hopeing [hoping?] to find you in good health as this leaves me at present Dear mother i beg your pardon and hope you will forgive me for taking Arthur away from you but i dun [done?] it for the better for he can do a great deal better here and his family. he says he will be going home in a year or so with his fortune made and to take good care of the place dear mother I am talking myself about taking a trip home this spring to see you all their [there?] is nothing will give me more pleasure than to see you all I have great company since Arthur and the family has come here I see them every night I teell [tell?] you we have some quare old chats about home dear mother I send you but a very small sum of one pound for pocket money for your self [yourself?] i know you do not stand in any nead [need?] of it for Arthur teels [tells?] me that he has left you at a good [----?] I hope that god will reward yous [you all?] for all for the kindness that you show to her and i hope to see you all soon Dear mother Dear mother i want you to drink our healths as soon as you receive this letter in hopes [hope?] that we will all soon meet I send my love to you and all my brothers and sisters and to all the children no more at present but remains your affectionate daughter Eleen Quin #PAGE 2 write as soon as you get this letter and let us know how you are all doing Barrytown [Duchescou-?] State of Newyork [New York?] for Arthur Quin |