| Title: | The Story of Little Robert |
|---|---|
| ID | 3310 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | White, Moses/11 |
| Year | 1859 |
| Sender | White, Moses |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | doctor |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
| Destination | Philadelphia, Penn., USA |
| Recipient | Bradbury, Samuel |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | re little Robert Taylor being sent to Ireland |
| Source | The Taylors of Shanrod, Co Down. Copyright retained by Heather Taylor, 46, Coolshinney Rd., Magherafelt, BT45 5JF, rookvale@hotmail.co.uk |
| Archive | The Centre For Migration Studies |
| Doc. No. | 701103 |
| Date | 23/05/1859 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM, 30/01/2007 |
| Word Count | 798 |
| Genre | |
| Note | N.B. includes copy of letter by Robert Taylor Sr. |
| Transcript | The Taylors of Shanrod, Co Down [The Story of Little Robert In 1858 Robert and Susanna Taylor are living at the farm in Shanrod, Co Down with their unmarried children Nathaniel and Eliza. Robert is 65, Susanna 56. Their son John has qualified in medicine at Glasgow. He may have practised for a time in Banbridge, Co Down. He has emigrated to Hartford, Connecticut. He is married to Mary Anne Bradley and they have two children. Little Robert is 9. In the Hartford Daily Times, Saturday evening, August 21, 1858 the following notice appeared; In Portland, Aug 21st, of dysentery, John Taylor M.D. aged 31. His remains will arrive in Hartford for interment in Zions Hill Cemetery, at half past 12 tomorrow (Sunday). Nine months later the following letter was written by Dr Moses White (he is presumably married to a sister of Mary Anne.] [Page 1] Mr Bradbury Hartford May 15th 1859 Dear Sir I received your letter of Jany 14th I would have written to you Sooner but for the verry [very?] unsettled State of my Sisters affairs. At the time the Dr died he was then living in Portland a distance from here of 14 miles. I attended him during his Sickness & near to the time he breathed his last. We then had his remains brought up here & placed in the family burying ground, & in a few days after we had my Sister & the Children brought up here to the city. They were left in a poor miserable way not having one dollar in the house the time he died. She loosed her youngest child in the winter . So that left her but one of the two she had to the Dr, with little Robert who is a fine boy. his Grandfather Mr Taylor had written to my Sister to Send Robert home. My Sister concluded it was better for Some of his relations here to take that responsibility on them & she would be willing to give him over to them. As your purpose [propose?] to take charge of him or keep him to Some arrangement is made with his Grandfather. I could if you wish give him in Charge of the Captain of one of the Steam propellers going weekly to your city who would take good care of him & deliver him safe to you, he has been living with me for the last two or three weeks, as my Sister was obliged to give up housekeeping & is now boarding out. She is obliged to work in a store to support the other child. you will please write [Page 2] me when convenient what you would wish to have me do in the matter poor Taylor could have done well here but he was rather foolish for himself & [worse?] for his family. With kind regards to your family I remain truly yours Moses White MD PS I understand Mr Taylor has written to Mr Wallace of Philadelphia to have Robert there as it be more convenient to have him sent home there being no direct way of doing so here. you might speak with Mr Wallace on the subject perhaps he had some more communication from Mr Taylor. M.W. [Moses White?] [Mr Wallace is probably a relative-Susannas maiden name was Wallace. A second letter a few days later concerns details of the arrangements for the boys passage.] For Robert Taylor [Stamped] [HAR---?] [GU---?] Mr Samuel Bradbury Care Mr David Graham & Co Philadelphia Co |
