| Title: | Ellen Brown, Co. Donegal, To "My Dear Audly", [U.S.A.?] |
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| ID | 331 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Brown, Ellen/38 |
| Year | 1878 |
| Sender | Brown, Ellen |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | farm tenant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Co. Donegal, Ireland |
| Destination | USA |
| Recipient | Brown, Audley |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | mother-son |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Margaret Graham Browne, Rathneeny*, Laghy,Co. Donegal. 073-21816. mgtgraham@tinet.ie |
| Archive | Margaret Graham Browne |
| Doc. No. | 400073 |
| Date | 21/02/1878 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, 26:04:00. |
| Word Count | 473 |
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| Transcript | $$H44 Part of the Margaret Graham Browne Catalogue$$H Rathneeny Laghey [Laghy?] Feb 21st 78 My dear Audly [Audley?] I must give you a good scold for not riting [writing?] you said the reason you did not write was because we did not send you news enough but if we would send you all the news since you wrote last I think it would take a news paper to hold it and not a letter I think I told you we had a new agent I can tell you more about him now he has noticed the tenanty [tenantry?] for a half a year of the runing [running?] years rent on the [1st?] of march the [there?] are few able or willing to pay it and if he proceeds in law many a one will be without a home considder [consider?] what kind of year this is when there is so much land to be sold there was more land sold since sept. [September?] last within a mile square of this than has been for the twenty years I must also tell you that John graham bougt [bought?] a farm [It?] Frank [Kohen?] he paid £190 for ten acres of land so you see its [it's?] not much cheaper yet the [they?] have tennant [tenant?] meeting [meetings?] going on for the landlords are raising the land and the people are rebeling [rebelling?] also there are meeting [meetings?] concerning a rail road either through the gap or from castlecauldwell if it would come that road it would run through our land I think I have give [given?] you news enough I heard there is another bank closed out there I hope it has none of your money this time I had a letter from Mary yesterday she says Robert was with till the new year and he left to go to where he worked In the summer and she got no word from him since you ought to write to him and bring him home all the boys are unmarrid [unmarried?] yet here Joe Farrell is married to Margaret Farrell in America I hop [hope?] youll [you'll?] bring none of the old maids of boston with you I almost forgot tell you about dan muloy [Mulloy?] his place was sold for debt twice by the sheriff I dont [don't?] know what the [they?] will do they have neither horse nor cow or any thing to call their own none of [his?] money is paid yet he paid intrest [interest?] for it and that is hard to make [up?] for nothing mother is lying these days with rheumatic pains but she is content to have a home to lie in not like [mrs.?] mulloy that [does?] not know what minute she will be put [out?] it was drink that done it all with them I hope your fingers and yourself is no more at present from your mother Ellen Brown (* The owner of these documents has informed us that this townland is spelt "Rathneeny" and that the older spellings of it are "Roniney" or "Raneny". In the "Index To The Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland" the spelling is "Raneany") |
