| Title: | Eliza C Smyth, Castledamph, to J. A. Smyth, Ontario, |
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| ID | 2638 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smyth, Eliza Catherine/22 |
| Year | 1907 |
| Sender | Smyth, Eliza Catherine |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | Protestant |
| Origin | Castledamph, Co, Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Essex Co., Ontario, Canada |
| Recipient | Smyth, James Alexander |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge,Co Tyrone, castledamph@btinternet.com |
| Archive | Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge. |
| Doc. No. | 305046 |
| Date | 24/04/1907 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, 27:06:03. |
| Word Count | 757 |
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| Transcript | Envelope addressed to: - Mr J. A. Smyth Essex, Box [313?], Ontario, Canada, Postmarked on Front: - [NEWTOWNSTEWART?] AP [April?] 24 [01?] (with unreadable small print) Postmarked on Back: - PLUMBRIDGE AP [April?] [01?] - ESSEX MY [May?]6 01 ONT [Ontario?] Castledamph April 24 1907 Dear Brother In answer to your letter which we received yesterday always glad to hear from you even if it's long coming We hope you feel alright again you say you have not much news & I think we are much the same I think Mary wrote to you sometime ago I dont know if she told you her companion & miss Louisa Campbell has started Millinery. You would laugh to see Willie John whistle the Time & then try it on the flute on his bare feet Mathew says he is deaved [deafened?] with flutes about every side of him perhaps this is enough about this subject. We have got all the corn in & ready for potatoes Willie Ballantine is sowing his flax today & Father is away down to sow Jamey Gilkisons today we have none this year. The weather is very nice this last week but very wet all through this spring. Over where A MC,, Clelland lived there will be some cheap bargains at Plumbridge this summer. Master & Miss James has gone home this last week on Easter holidays. Joe McKelvey was home at Easter for two weeks he was here every night for practice with the band he is a very good little drummer John C wishes they [the?]others could do as well he learned the boys two new tunes they [the?] young band has got to the Protestant Boys Plumbridge Fair was on Tuesday week our Folks sold to [two?] springing heifers at £20 15 S three pigs at £3 & six sheep at £4 & bought two sheep we have sold £60 worth of cattle £12 10 S for pigs & I don't know about sheep as they sell & buy in every fair so one cannot tell exactly. We have got the stone ditch removed leading for [from?] the road to the spout & has a ground hedge in it [its?] place & wired We are going to get a threshing & churning machine will cost £33 10 S it will be put up after 16th may they are filling up the back the height of the barn floor. We will have some changes made when you come this time ten years shortly since you left first time flies fast in one way Mary was only eight years old & on Sunday she was 18 I suppose you think you are getting old now When you look back on the past one thing there has been a great deal of deaths about this place. We heard Sam Ballantine & Alice was for taking up house in [Big?] Williams it appears Willie Sergeant Ballantine would give Sam the farm & pay the rent to him Sam to work on both farms same as usual some say now that Alice & Sam will have nothing to do with it in that way I am afraid Sam caught the bird before he had the cage. John Gilkison was down on Sunday on his bicycle he is partly grey in the head so you need not talk about getting old. We had a letter from Bell some time ago she informed us of that addition that reminds me of Kate Mc,.(Anulty) [McAnulty?] McCormack having got two little girls at once The cuckoo has come once more although I have not heard her yet. I was telling W John [Willie John?] today he was like some grannie about gosolings [goslings?] him & mother is never done speaking about this goose or that one we have twenty little yellow things out & I suppose we would have none only for WJMa [Willie John & Ma?] I suppose you remember that little girl who was in Gilkisons the year you were here Kattie Ann. Well she was asking if you would come home this year as she is in Gilkies ever since only one year she is a funny little bit plenty of old chat as father calls it Willie J [Willie John?] says you [wont?] know him anyway but he is afraid you wont get anyplace to Sleep when you do come Now this letter is neither well wrote [written?] nor [indeed?] sensiable [sensible?] but it will pass for this time Excuse all when you know who it is that wrote it [ever?] your Sister Eliza C Smyth PS (Written at top of front page) I have not much time to look over & W J [Willie John?] is in a hurry to post it. Eliza. (Written upside across Page 6 I forgot we rec [received?] a letter from T Hay from South Africa Transcribed by Jim Buchanan Verified by Mohamed Souissy |
