| Title: | Mary Quin, Barrytown to Her Sister, Ireland |
|---|---|
| ID | 2186 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Quin, Mary/38 |
| Year | 1873 |
| Sender | Quin, Mary |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Barrytown, New York, USA |
| Destination | Ireland |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | sisters |
| Source | D 1819/3: Presented by Samuel Park, Esq., The Square, Stewartstown, County Tyrone. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9012059 |
| Date | 01/01/1873 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Action By Date Document added by C.R., 10:12:1993. |
| Word Count | 334 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | My dear sisters I write these few lines hopeing [hoping?] to find you in good health as this leaves me at present Dear sisters i promised to you that I would send you the way that sister Ellen is situated her husband is a middle aged man and has five children four daughters and one son three of the girls are hired out and the youngest of these which is 14 years of age which stays at home and makes her fathers meat which he is labouring with a gentle man and has 12 shillings a day that is six of your money and has a large house which the [they?] are paying 10 dollars a month and Ellen is working every day with a gentle man washing and ironen [ironing?] clothes she goes at seven in the morning and comes home at seven at night in she has twelve dollars a month and her board and she is very thin and old looking she says she keeps all her earnings to herself that was the way she paid our passages she had some earned and she got some and that she told Arthur that she would have to be paid back again so I dont see any thing [anything?] #PAGE 2 the [they?] have by them only what the [they?] can earn it was all the better you did not send the letter and the money in it before we came here and that hes [he?] is very sorry that he came here and that her husbands son is a full grown boy and that he has no [----?] only washing here and there he does not stop with them only when he is out of a job Dear Sister don [don't?] say anything about this little letter for I did not show it to Ellen send us all the news that happened since we left home I have no more to say at present but reman [remain?] your loving Sister mary Qui [Quin?] |
