| Title: | [?] [Weir?], Edenclaw to "Dear Daughter." |
|---|---|
| ID | 3194 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Weir Family/44 |
| Year | 1886 |
| Sender | Weir Family |
| Sender Gender | |
| Sender Occupation | farmers |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Edenclaw, Co. Fermanagh, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Michigan, USA |
| Recipient | Weir, Annie |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | unknown |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mrs Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack,Co.Fermanagh, BT93 0SA |
| Archive | The Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 9907093 |
| Date | 27/03/1886 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, 19:07:99. |
| Word Count | 436 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Edenclaw 27/3/[?] Dear daughters I now take [the?] pleasure writing you these few [to?] [let?] you know that we are well Thank God for all goodness [&?] [mercy?] creatures we recieved [received?] your kind letter yesterday none of your letters were lost the time in June that we sent fathers dead letter we got one from you the next day after we posted it we did not answer it as we thought you would write when you got it The second August you [sent?] an answer to the dead Letter there was [a?] return sent to you so when it came we did not answer it. And the third was in December you said in it youd [you would?] write a long letter home soon when you would see bella so you disappointed us we watched every morning in the post till at last you wrote mother thought something had happened to you but thank God you are well Maggie is better I did not do her any harm she can laugh as well as ever Grandma got a very sore fall about a week ago she fell on on the floor she was sitting down beside the fire she rise [rose?] and thought there was a chair beside her the chair wasnt there so she fell back on the floor and her head fell on the stones she got a very sore fall she had to get Dr graham she is something better she can come out she was here yesterday but she is greatly failed she cannot be so bad when she is able to come that length she told me to tell Bella she hasnt forgot the promise she made I suppose Bella under stands better than me I dont wish to know thier [their?] secrets Mrs Knox of Ederney is dead Congaga & Thomas is married to one of the Misses Oliver beyond Ederney in harvest last He invited William Ingram and Ane [Anne?] Jane sometime before the wedding. Thomas sent them a line to say it would oblige him much if they would stay at home and he had more than his bride Anne Jane was vexed and [despit--?] she took ill & that was the beginning of her death for it is her is dead indeed the country is nearly waste the [they?] are going to America [every?] day There went away a whole lot last from Lack. Uncle James & family are well have removed to [drumcargy?] [?] Uncle John in not married [yet?] He ploughed with us [thist?] me too we have the horse yet & [watch?] & duck |
