| Title: | James McCafferty, L. Lancaster City, to "Dear Uncle" |
|---|---|
| ID | 3751 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | mccafferty, james/39 |
| Year | 1858 |
| Sender | McCafferty, James |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Lancaster, Penn., USA |
| Destination | N.Ireland |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | nephew-uncle |
| Source | T 2345/8: Copied by Permission of Dr E.R.R. Green, Department of History, Manchester University |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N. Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9510055 |
| Date | 05/06/1858 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 12:10:95. |
| Word Count | 681 |
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| Transcript | James McCafferty L. Lancaster City North America Lancaster June the 5th 1858 Dear Uncle I hope to god that you have recovered your health as P was told yesterday by Pat O'Neill's son in law that he was at your office some time back and could not see you your health was so bad. I do not expect my dear mother to put past many days now she is warm to the last state I am now fifty weeks that I never was one sight from her bedroom and has to lift her like a child I am sorry to tell you that my son Patrick is at last left me and off to sea with the Murray's which has broke my heart I would [have?] been happy to have seen him dead rather than to see him with them. An old flaming strumpet named Nancy quin [Quinn?] and Edm [Edmund?] Black's Wife and Catherine Black. She never seen him but she were advising him to go to his uncles to sea so she made him be of no good to me and I loved him dearly And now he is lost on me forever I am Intend [intending?] to try to commit him to good for disobedience may the almighty god restore you to your health is the wishes of Edw [Edward?] McAlister Hugh Logan= James Logan = Jane Thornton Kitty Logan = John Collins William = Elle Johnstone James = Jane Rankin Hugh Collison James Logan Rasharkin William Hugh Smith Born in 1790-went to N. America in 1799 Died in 1825 John Keeshan = Kitty Logan [___?] Calhoun of [Portvan?] Parish of Finvoy Hugh Calhoun Born about 1760 Sailed to N. America in 1799 And in 1825 aged 62 years bought an extensive property in Real Estate [___?] Bank [___?] John O'Rawe, son of Brian O'Rawe of Ballymena (1750-1831) and his wife Nellie MacManus. Fought in 1798 in the Battle of Antrim under Henry Joy McCracken, was taken prisoner and brought to be hanged in his mother's doorway, escaped and lay hidden in Knockanour. John O'Rawe's father , Brian, took part in the Rising on the side of the Crown (See "Old Ballymena", published by the Ballymena Observer" in 1928). John o'rawe's grand-niece, Mrs Minnie MacNally, remembered another letter from him in which he said he had had the honour of firing the first gun at the English frigate .... in the battle of ........Bay in the war of 1812. Though I remember that my aunt, Mrs MacNally, in telling me this knew both the name of the frigate and the battle I have long since forgotten them. O'Rawe was a member of the A.C.H. of Charleston, I think, which was then a benevolent society. He never married and returned to Ireland, dying in Ballymena in 1841. There is a silhouette of O'Rawe, which I am sure I could have photographed if the museum would like a copy. Any further information about his service in the American navy would of course be of great interest to us. Henry O'Loane, son of Laurence O'Loan ofBallylesson, Ballymena. His sister, Grace, married Thomas MasAuley of Crumlin, Co. Antrim. His letter is addressed to Thomas's and Grace's daughter Margaret Jane. They had two other children, Catherine and John. Margaret Jane married James O'Rawe, brother to John O'Rawe above. They had two children, both girls, one of whom, Ellen, who married James Moore, had eight children, one of whom, Agnes, married my father, Eoin MacNeill. Catherine married MacGill of [Unnshna?] Carnlough, Co.Antrim. John went to America where he is said to have died circa 1879 unmarried a wealthy man probably in Rochester, New Jersey. Hugh Calhoun. I have put together a bundle of papers which appear, from the scribbled genealogies, to refer to his maternal relations, with McCafferty's original letter, in case they may be of interest. As these are originals I would like their return. Calhoun is a Gaelic name O Cathluain meaning battle-hound or hero, or battle-joyful, a Breifny surname, now dispersed through Ulster. The Ui Cathluain are mentioned in the annals of the year 1145. See Dr Patrick Woulfe's "Irish Names and Surnames". |
