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Title: William Weir, Co Monaghan, to "Dear Jonny"
ID3249
CollectionIrish Emigration Database
FileWeir, William/4
Year1913
SenderWeir, William
Sender Gendermale
Sender Occupationfarmer
Sender Religionunknown
OriginCo. Monaghan, Ireland
DestinationCo. Fermanagh, N.Ireland
RecipientWeir, Jonny
Recipient Gendermale
Relationshipbrothers
SourceCopyright Retained by Mrs Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack, Co Fermanagh, BT93 OSA
ArchiveThe Ulster American Folk Park
Doc. No.9909204
Date1/10/1913
Partial Date
Doc. TypeLET
LogDocument added by LT, 10:09:99.
Word Count231
Genre
Note
TranscriptDear [Jonny?]
I [hope?] [these?] few lines will find yous [you?] all well. the leave us [fairly?][now?] [you?] I have had a bad time of it the while I would a
rote [wrote?] sooner only for it. I saw the time I never thought it would a been this way with me but it is a long time since I left home now fortytoo [forty two?] years on the third of last month [corn?] was earlier that year. I supose [suppose?] you have hardly got it all out yet there is some to cut here yet I hope you will be able to come down to see us [when?] it is [out?] we are thinking long to we get our [cub?] I can not get the house finished but is is near it there is a lot of people looking to take it off me I here [hear?] no word of having to leave this yet I do not want to leave this I think it will pay as well as any road we will go we are digging in our potatoes out of the garden the [they?] never was [were?] better in it I have a lor of verry [very?] nice Potatoes I hope yous [you?] will rite [write?] soon and let us know when we will get our cub.
I remain Ever your true brother
Wm [William?] Weir