| Title: | Isabella Martin, Chicago, U.S.A. to Mrs Shaw, Portaferry |
|---|---|
| ID | 3704 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | martin, isabella/29 |
| Year | 1870 |
| Sender | Martin, Isabella |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | middle-class housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Destination | Portaferry, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Mrs Shaw |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | daughter-mother |
| Source | D 2709/1/84: Presented by Miss Shanks, Ballyfounder, Portaferry, County Down, Ireland |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9502202 |
| Date | 21/11/1870 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 20:02:1995. |
| Word Count | 483 |
| Genre | |
| Note | N.B. her husband is prob. a merchant. |
| Transcript | Chicago Nov 21th My Dear Mother, I write you these few lines to let you know that we are all well hopping [hoping?] these few lines will find you all in good health I received your kind and welcome letter and was sorry to hear of Margarets illness but I hope she is better before this time and I hope the Lord will spare her to the family William and Samuel is [are?] well and Sam's Mrs has got another daughter William or Sam comes every time there in to se [see?] me and stops all night so I se [see?] them every week. I think William wont go home this far[?] the core[?] on the last trip and he said he would write to you when the would lay up William is going to stay with Sam this winter My little Willie was sick the whole summer I did not think he would live but he is better now he is very like my father some think he is like William I am going to have there [their?] likeness taken to send you the Boyds is [are?] all well and old Mrs Mc Rea died about 2 months ago and Mary Warnock Mrs Rea and left a baby 2 weeks old it is living in old Capt. Warnocks the [they?] have only 2 now Jane and James for [....?] died last winter Mrs Warnock was a very nice nighbour[neighbour?] and she left all her faults in the old country no body ever say her the worse since she come here this was only a midlin [middling?] summer here for making money we are doing up our house making it larger John Slate is working at it we are making room for more of a family Sams Pipers son is out here and I think Sam would have been glad he had stayed at home I never wrote to Nancy since not got no word from her and I think Sam will write to her when he lays up he said if she left the man and would come and stay hear [here?] Margaret he would give her 10 pounds a year till the Child could run about good and then he would fech [fetch?] her out we all think a pity of her and she is the only one that is poor I have little more to say I hope you are happy and content I would like you here but you would not like this country I allways [always?] think I will go home to se [see?] you yet give my kind love to Margaret and the children and if we do not meet on earth we will meet in heaven With kind love I remain Your affectionate daughter Isabella Martin Write soon I think Hugh Glenn will stay with us this winter he has stayed here 2 winters now he is from Ballywalter |
