| Title: | [John Smith?], Ballymoney, to Mother [Jane Smith?], [Moycraig?]. |
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| ID | 2510 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smith, John/77 |
| Year | 1848 |
| Sender | Smith, John |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | inn keeper and distiller |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Moycraig, Co. Antrim, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Smith, Jane |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | son-mother |
| Source | D.1828/49: Presented by James Steele, Ballymoney, Co. Antrim. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9510025 |
| Date | 26/06/1848 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 12:10:95. |
| Word Count | 322 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | Ballymoney June the 26 1848 Dear Mother with feliel [filial?] love and gratitude I wright [write?] a few lines to let you know that we are well hoping that you are all so we are begining [beginning?] to think that it is our time for home as isabella cole [coal?] is quite dirty so you can send in two of them the larg [large?] market day as there are two persons wanting Mary J so I think that you can send the other as well as you did us as it was against my will to come to leave the hapiest [happiest?] days I shall ever se [see?] that is at chool [school?] so you can send them in and when the [they?] have stayed as long as we will be ready to relieve them again if the [they?] do not come we intend leaving John and Goying [going?] home Should wee [we?] walked it I coud [could?] stay hear [here?] if I had aney tread [any trade?] to work at but flowering is so dull and mee [me?] dull with it so I sleep the half of my time the rule wase [was?] time about and we did not like to be the furst [first?] that would brak [break?] it or we would not be hear [here?] til [till?] this time but you might think that our close [clothes?] would be in need of changen [changing?] in a month and the [----?] the [---- -----?] so the [they?] may expect us to do the [they?] came to them any howe [how?] so you all called early Isabella wants to know how R. J. foot is she is has [has?] some swet [sweet?] things for him when she goes home hive [give?] my love to Jim and tell him that if he be glad to se [see?] me I have something for if I called forget the other for he hase [has?] [----?] me |
