| Title: | Eliza Smyth Castledamph to James A. Smyth, Ontario |
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| ID | 2681 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smyth, Eliza Catherine/125 |
| Year | 1899 |
| 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. | 0604062 |
| Date | 27/11/1899 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | |
| Word Count | 1077 |
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| Transcript | [Front of Envelope] Mr. J. A. Smyth Windsor Box 626 Ontario Canada [Stamped] NEWTOWNSTEWART 10 PM NOV 23 99 [Stamped] NEWTOWNSTEWART 10 PM NOV 23 99 [Stamped] PLUMBRIDGE A NO 28 99 [Printed at top] R REGISTERED LETTER This letter must be given to an Officer of the Post Office to be registered, and a receipt obtained [fo--?] THE ADDRESS MUST BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE [Written at top] 455 [Printed and written at bottom] FEE 2 PAID. 162 [Postage Stamp] Postage and Inland Revenue One Penny [Back of envelope] [Stamped] WINDSOR ONT DE 8 99 CANADA [Stamped] LONDON PM[--?] 99 [Stamped] LONDON PM [--?] 99 [Stamped] WINDSOR ONT DE 8 99 CANADA [Printed] INLAND REVENUE Subject to the Conditions Published in the Post Office Guide as to Registration, compensation for loss or damage is given in respect of Inland registered Packets of all kinds According to the following table:- Fee Limit of Compensation 2d £5 3d £10 4d £20 5d £30 6d £40 7d £50 8d £60 9d £70 10d £80 11d £90 1s 0d £100 1s 1d £110 1s 2d £120 [Page 1] Castledamph Nov 27th 99 Dear Brother We rec [received] your letter of Nov 14th yesterday we are sorry you did not get the money as I am sure you were in need of it we will send you more today I hope you will have it before you leave Windsor I see your exam commences pretty soon now you will have hard enough times I suppose but if you be successful, what about all the bother well we just rec [received] our photos this morning so we will forward you one [sic] by the first mail. [Page 2] We were thinking he had forgot to send them but they came at last Wm [William?] & Bella is in Strabane today I am thinking its cold along the road although there is no rain there was not as nice a day since nor before as the 18th so you see Providence has favoured them all along you wanted to know about Uncle John & Aunt Sarah Aunt has got very old & I may say nothing larger though I think she is awful cross & uncle is in the downward jouney also they have neither boy nor girl this term I think he does not work much at the trade now John was down one Sunday evg [evening] with something from Gortin and he says its the same old place [Page 3] I was in it one day about two years ago with Tillie McCullaugh [McCullagh?] collecting money for that new infirmary & she told us she would never be in it nor would she give us anything so as the saying goes if you give nothing you need not [thar?] our bag Old Andy Dunn is for death he was going up one day to uncle John's & fell about the spout & lay there until uncle was coming home he was badly cut about the head Beck Dunn's mother died sometime ago I think their [there?] must be a wedding today such shooting since I coming [came?] to write it resembles one anyway I hardly know what to tell you now & when I am finishing what a lot of news comes into my head. [Page 4] James Mc Kelvey Bradkeel has got a new car was at Church last Sunday & as we hear broke the footboard & lost his whip in the chase comming [coming?] home nothing but cars & traps going to Church & Chaple [Chapel?] but us presbyterians has nothing but one car & trap As I was writing up came a little robin to the window so I stooped & gave it some bread its picking it up pretty quick some say its a sign of a sore winter when the robin is so tame. Wm [William?] & Willie Ballantine (or as I should say uncle) got a horse at Alex McKelveys auction Glenroan at £5 10 also a field for cropping they will work him in means [sic] & I think feed him week about. [Page 5] The next letter you rec [receive?] will be from mother & Willie John she was for writing today but it would be to [too?] late before she would finish Mary has applied for an apprentice to Andersons office in Omagh I dont know if she will get it or not yet away she must get no matter who stays at home but remember [rice?] & time [thyme?] never grows in one garden mother & father was over in Gortin on Thursday thats the first time for mother since John went over they are all well in Gortin Lizzie is a very good singer of [for?] her size & age I think you could hardly get one so clever & active about here Matthew has got out on his Kelly again managed to get the length of Gordons so you may be sure he will do now one night he went two or three happened to go also & Matthew says they followed him he says if he was not going none of them would go I think their [there?] is a little jealousy working him so they are for tempting him if possible this winter. [Page 6] We rec [received] papers from Jas [James?] Gordon most of all the news is about the war perhaps we will send them to you later on we sent you some last week you will see the picture of the new infirmary & laying of the Foundation Stone If you remember the Shepherds son Peter McClelland he is away now on ship as a marine man he is at Gibraltar at present he says they have fine fun learning to swim he has got to be a first class boy & a rise of sixpence per week as pocket money he sent home his Photo with Sailor clothes & looks splendid Jorgies [Georgies?] Jamie & wife & family are all gone to their new home Miss Dunn will miss the children from school five of them were attending & one at home Joe Duncan is not very well yet we hear their is bones comming [coming?] out of it so I am afraid it was a bad break they are all removed to the new hospital & I suppose Joe among the rest. [Page 7] Old Robert was not down this last while I think he cannot break the signment it holds good & so much the better of [for?] John & Lizzie young Robert has got a process from that [girl?] for £50 so perhaps they will have trouble enough the [they] call the child Patrick McFarland so its a good start for to have some of the name Old Robert does not care much about Rabbits now all the cats and Dogs he killed (what do you think) it was no use if he could set a trap for Lizzie [Page 8] as handy as he done for the poor cats he would not have so much trouble calling I suppose if you get a school you will teach for a while its seems as hard to catch one over there as it would be here if you can come home in summer you will see & know more yourself than we can but I believe you are better learned than what they are in Ireland master James said your paper were [sic] hard I hope you won't need to wear glasses like him he has them tracked in his nose & round his ears no more so good bye Eliza C Smyth |
