| Title: | [?], Holywood, Co. Down to [William Wightman, America?] |
|---|---|
| ID | 3973 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | 1851-60/53(2) |
| Year | 1857 |
| Sender | unknown |
| Sender Gender | unknown |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Holywood, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | William |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | T 1475/1 p33: Copied by Permission of Miss A. McKisack, 9 Mount Pleasant, Belfast. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9404159 |
| Date | 26/03/1857 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 20:04:1994 |
| Word Count | 409 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Holywood Co. Down. March 26'57 [1857?] My dear William, I have not heard from you for a considerable time, not having even got a newspaper lately as a sign that you are living and well. You mentioned in the letter announcing your Mother's death that you intended to continue the annual sum which she had allowed to Miss Martin. This was very liberal and very considerate on your part, but I am glad to say that further aid has been rendered unnecessary in consequence of the friends of her sister (Mrs Lane) taking an interest in her, and allowing her a sum of £20 per annum. You are I think aware that Mrs Lane had for many years allowed Miss Martin an annual sum and it was the interruption of that payment which rendered it necessary for her friends here to assist her. I applied several times to Mrs Lane to no purpose, but at Christmas last I had a letter from her niece Miss Lane of Bandon informing me that Mrs Lane was in a state of dotage, and that among her papers were found letter applying for aid on behalf of Miss Martin. This led to an enquiry respecting Miss M's [Martin's?] circumstances, and the result has been the arrangement by which I am to receive for her £5 quarterly. I had a letter lately from John McAlister he and his family are well; his two little boys the finest in the country. He mentioned that he would write to you seeking the date of our Grandfather's death. It is not likely you could give it, at any rate I hunted it out in the Newspaper file so that I have all the information I wanted. It was to insert the date on a headstone I was getting put up with iron enclosure in the burying ground in Lisburn. The country is all excitement at present owing to the dissolution of Parliament. The elections will be on in a few days. I sent you a Belfast paper two or three days ago which will explain the state of its election politics and I will send you another containing the result of the contest. The winter has been rather severe and long though we have not had much frost or snow. A day or two ago we had a heavy fall of snow, but it passed away in a few hours. We have had unusually high winds and of course great damage to shipping. [rest of letter is missing] |
