| Title: | Mrs. H.B. Vining, U.S.A. to [J. Peel, Solicitor, Armagh?]. |
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| ID | 3143 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Vining, Harriet B/8 |
| Year | 1895 |
| Sender | Vining, Harriet B. |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
| Destination | Armagh, Co. Armagh, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Joshua Peel & Son |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | business |
| Source | D/889/7/1: Deposited by Messrs. Joshua Peel & Son, Solicitors, Armagh. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N. Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9810032 |
| Date | 20/03/1895 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 27:10:98. |
| Word Count | 375 |
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| Transcript | Shrewsbury Park St. Louis, Mo. [Minnesota?] Mar [March?] 20, 95 [1895?] I, Harriet B. Vining, the surviving heir of Wm. [William?] M. and Charlotte B. Armstrong, both deceased. Wm. [William?] M Armstrong, eldest son of Robert armstrong, who came from the City of Enniskellen [Enniskillen?], County of Formannah [Fermanagh?], Ireland. The said Robert Armstrong was adopted by his uncle, who apprenticed him to learn the Cabinet trade. He served about five years in the city of Enniskellen [Enniskillen?]; and became dissatisfied before he served his term out; and sailed to America, and landed in Philadelphia, Penn [Pennsylvania?], where he shortly afterwards married a lady by the name of Mary Ann Potter. The said Uncle, of Robert Armstrong, owned an Entailed Estate, known as the Headland Estate; near the City of Enniskellen [Enniskillen?], County of Formanagh [Fermanagh?], that had been in the Armstrong family since, William the Conqueror. The said Estate had been decreed to Sir James Armstrong, a bachelor, who resided on the said Estate with his Sister Lady Arabella. At his death, the said Estate was decreed to Robert Armstrong, and at his death; to is oldest son William M. Armstrong and at the said William M. Armstrong's death; it was decreed to his daughter Harriet. Some years ago, said William M. Armstrong had received a number of letters from the Solicitor of decrees, of the City of Enniskellen [Enniskillen?], asking him for information in regard to his father Robert Armstrong; and telling him to hold himself in readiness with his credentials; for at the death of Sir James Armstrong he would fall Heir to the Estate. In answer, he wrote to the Solicitor of decree, that he had no desire to cross the ocean; and the correspondence ceased for a while. William M. Armstrong died in 1882 and his daughter Harriet employed a lawyer, to whom she gave all the correspondence, and he opened a correspondence with a prominent Lawyer in Ireland; who found upon an investigation that there was an unbroken chain of evidence, in which she would become the heir. This Lawyer in St. Louis, received money to farther [further?] the investigation, and shortly afterwards moved away from St. Louis; and ignored the request to give up the correspondence; we fear there is some crooked business Yours Very Respectfully Harriet B. Vining. |
