| Title: | Samuel Shaw, Chicago, Illinois, to Mrs Shaw, Ballyfounder, Co Down |
|---|---|
| ID | 2451 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Shaw, Samuel/4 |
| Year | 1876 |
| Sender | Shaw, Samuel |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | ship business? |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Destination | Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | D2709/1/17: Presented by Miss Shanks, Ballyfounder, Portaferry, Co Down |
| Archive | Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9501126 |
| Date | 02/02/1876 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT/JW, 11:01:1995. |
| Word Count | 403 |
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| Transcript | Chicago Feb 2nd 1876 Dear Sister you will think by this that we have forgoten [forgotten?] your [you?] we are all well at present hooping [hoping?] this will find yous [you?] all well I have had rather a poor winter of it the children had the lung fever and we buired [buried?] the Baby about 2 weeks ago her [sic] died of the fever he was 5 months old we called him Sam, and Johny [Johnny?] had a close call with it but he is getting all right [alright?] now William is gowing [going?] to School every day and he is getting along very well, but i think he is throwing Some love to the School Mam My mother in law is here and i have great fun with him and her I want her to give him Nancy and a hundred & Sixty acres that the Deacon has a morgage [mortgage?] on that is dew [due?] She is agreeable to signe [sign?] the deed but the trouble will be to get the Pap [Father?] to singe [sign?], he is stopping with me he had a notion of gowing [going?] home this fawl [fall?] but he took the rust at it when it come to the scratch he earned Green Backs enugh [enough?] to buy $40 last Summer and he thinks he could not don [done?] so well at home if he is spared he will be shure [sure?] home next fawl [fall?], with his yankee wife We had onely [only?] a middlin [middling?] Season but we are not as badely [badly?] fixed as a great deal of the Vessel men there has been quite a number of Vessels sold this winter under the hammer at business prises [prices?] to their owners Nick and Bella & the family are all well there Johny [Johnny?] is still living but i think the spring will fetch him he is pretty low now Brother William is well Mr Patterson and Nancy and the family are well and are getting along as usual, we have had a verry [very?.] mild winter here it was more like an Irish winter than the weather we have been accustomed to untill [until?] this last week we have had frost & snow Ulster X76039 Belfast 2 February I have got little more news to write give my cind [kind?] love to mother & your family and remember me to uncle Nick I Remain your Brother Sam Shaw |
