| Title: | Martha J. Wilson, Ontario to George Reid, [Belfast?]. |
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| ID | 3383 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Wilson, Martha J/13 |
| Year | 1862 |
| Sender | Wilson, Martha Jane |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | farming household |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Hope Township, Canada West (present-day Ontario) |
| Destination | Belfast, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Reid, George |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | Perry Town, Hope Township, Co Durham, Canada West, (Now Ontario, Canada) |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9102021 |
| Date | 20/08/1862 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 09:02:1994 |
| Word Count | 676 |
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| Transcript | Canada West Hope Perry Town Aug 20/62 [20 1862?] Dear Brother George I sit down to write you a few hasty lines, I hope these will find you all in good health they leave us pretty well, I received two letters from home on the 24th May one from Uncle John & one from Thomas containing a Photograph of himself and an order for a pound on a Bank in Kingston for a present to Anna Maria our youngest child, for which I hope I am truly thnakful we intend putting it into something profitable for her until she knows its value. I intend sending this to you by Joseph's brother James who starts for England to morrow [tomorrow?] I did not know untill [until?] the other day that he intended making a tour through a part of Ireland he is the oldest of Joseph's brothers and unmarried he owns a splendid farm of 100 Acres 2/3 cleared he has rented it and intends after an absence of 21 years to revisit his native soil you will find him a very deep wellinformed [well-informed?], plain, matter-of-fact person he can see as far into the millstone as the man that picks it, should he visit you receive him on my account, tell Anna not to cook the beef to a cinder, he is an Englishman, and if it is possible for you to spare the time, accompany him to all the places of interest in and around Belfast, for this is his subject in going there he has been a very hard worker, now he intends enjoying a little leisure he has not been very well this summer he is not much like Joseph in my eye he is not near so handsome. Dear George my time is so limited that I fear I have not time to write to Thomas so you must either write him the contents of this and send it him thanking him from my very heart for his Photograph tell him I had such a crying spell over it that I frightened the children they could not understand me, my tears were not those of sorrow, but something of a mixture, Joseph has ordered a gilt frame for it, let him imagine himself elevated in a gilt frame in my bedroom, by the time you receive this I look for another from Belfast to fill a space opposite Thomas Tell T [Thomas?], when he sends me an order for a dress let it either be a post office order, or an order on some of our Port Hope Bank for we have had a little trouble with anna Maria's. Kingston is 102 miles from here, although in the wilds of Canada P H [Port Hope?] has either 3 or 4 Banks & branches, I suppose, The Upper Canada The Commercial, The Montreal. I am so hurried that I know not what to say first so I presume & shall miss all send my love and respect home to Belleer [Balleer?], if James has time and visits T [Thomas?] in Armagh, I should like him to see Belleer [Balleer?] school house, the place of my birth, but I do not know when any of you will see him, whether he will remain in England all winter or not will just depend on his own #PAGE 2 notion he may visit you this fall or next spring, which, I know not. I wish you would send us a paper now and then, I am sure it would be easy for you, being in town all the time, kind love to you and Anna and your babes [babies?], Anna is like myself a poor subject for the Queen I have had 1 boy & 4 girls, 3 girls of which are alive we are 6 now perhaps by the time you receive this we may be 7, God willing if you receive this before James goes write immediately to T [Thomas?] Your affectionate sister M. J. [Martha Jane?] Wilson James took this notion so quick that we have hardly time to think much of anything else. |
