| Title: | J. A. Smyth, Canada to J.J Smyth, Co Tyrone |
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| ID | 2822 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smyth, James Alexander/87 |
| Year | 1892 |
| Sender | Smyth, James Alexander |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farm labourer |
| Sender Religion | Protestant (Methodist) |
| Origin | Essex Co., Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Smyth, John J. and wife |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | son-parents |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge, Co Tyrone, castledamph@btinternet.com |
| Archive | Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge. |
| Doc. No. | 0604050 |
| Date | 23/10/1892 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | |
| Word Count | 581 |
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| Transcript | [Front of Envelope] Mr John Jas Smyth Castledamph Plumbridge Co Tyrone Ireland [Stamped] ESSEX AU19 99 ONT [Written in bottom left corner] Arrived [arrived] 31 august 99 [Written sideways on left] Mary Smyth Mary [Back of envelope] [Stamped] Windsor AM Au 19 99 ONT [Stamped] [Hamilton] AU [19?] 99 [Stamped] [NEWTOWNSTEWART?] AM 15 O AU 31 99 [Written on left] Arived [arrived?] 31 august 1899 [Page 1] South Woodslee South Woodslee [sic] October 23th 1892 23th 1892 [sic] Dear Parents I now take the pleasure of writing to you again I received two letters from you since I last wrote I intended to write before this but I waited to the pictures came We got them on Thursday 13 safe and sound. I dont like the light picture as well as the other one it makes mother look to [too?] old the dark one is pretty good But some how they cant take them as well as in this country How much did they cost you and how many did you get Dear Mother. I suppose you were greatly scared when [Page 2 you saw all those sights I suppose you saw more wonders than fifteen I’m afraid you would make a bad hand to come to America but you seen [sic]it as bad and worse there than if you were sailing over the deep blue sea it was the first day or two that I got the great rocking the differince [difference?] is when you get out a piece you see nothing but mountains of water as far as your eye can see To Father In regards to the stories I dont know what to say about it Willie John and Sarah was away before I got that letter but if they had been here I tell you I would went over [sic] a lesson to them, I will yet if I see them again Xmas Cassie wrote to Archibald about it and told [Page 3] him that you never wrote any letters of the kind here and she got a letter from him the other day and I asked her what he said and she told me that he said your reputation was unsolid I will ask her for the letter to I read it I suppose that would mean that Tilda I never said it [sic] uncle was going to write to them but the girls did not let him so Cassie wrote I suppose they were afraid that he might offend them that was my idea of it they were saying here that maybe McFarland [sic] girl made it but, I said she would not do it. You know aunt stick [sic] well up for the Duncan side and they [the?] girls dont do bad at it either. Do you know what is the reasons [sic] that Mary Duncan nor Uncle John never answered my letters I wrote [Page 4] Omagh and I got no answer from them yet either I dont know what is the reasons they don’t write. We have nice warm weather here this last month everything is pretty dry we done [sic] our threshing since I last [sic] we had only about half as much this year as last we had 270 bushels of wheat and over 300 oats Crops are all below the average this year Me and uncle dug our potatoes [one?] other day we dug them all in an afternoon so you may think we have a lot of them we did not plant them until 23 of June and are good potatoes. I forgot to tell you about the Irish potatoes and oats in my last letter we had about 2 bushel [sic] of oats and then potatoes we have none atal [at all?]. [Written upside down on Page 4] Write a little [oftener?] and give all the news and see what is the reasons [sic] of [sic] these other people not writing. [Written upside on Pages 2 & 3] Hallow eve is coming wish the boys may all Have a good night James Alex Smyth Transcribed by Greg Floyd |
