| Title: | [?], Cookstown, to "Dear Mary", [U.S.A.?] |
|---|---|
| ID | 3974 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | 1851-60/54 |
| Year | 1858 |
| Sender | unknown |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | preparing to leave for Australia |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | Mary |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | sweethearts? |
| Source | Copyright Retained and Document donated by Mrs Margaret McGinty,1 Ardgannon Quarry Lane, Dungannon. |
| Archive | The Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 9706248 |
| Date | 26/10/1858 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, 25:06:97. |
| Word Count | 460 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | Cookstown October 26th 1858 Dear Mary, I received your kind & welcome letter on 25th Instant which gave me great Satisfaction of youse [have you?] been all well I am well Thank Goodness at present Dear Mary it is true enough about me going to Australia I intend to go with the help of God my passage is paid I have go [got?] all my letters only the Captains letter. I was up with my mother. Before that I paid my passage-money and I consulted and I consulted with my mother and Sister. and She consulted for to let me go my Sister Betty was talking about going with me and I will do all I can for to get her with me Dear Mary the journey is far. and I do not Know how soon I may be called away I will not be going up to I be taking my leave of youse all [you all?] there is a girl going from this town whose name is Mary Kane and I will be glad to have her alongst [along side?] with me as she is a good Catholic I would expect will be a right good commend but the best command that I will have I hope and trust will be the B. V. [Blessed Virgin?] Mary and our Lord and Saviour as a father to me I hope and trust to be under their care wherever that I go and as long as I am under their care I need not care where I do go my dear Mary though if I shall I be in a foreign land and the deep dark blue sea shall far between us expand you never shall be out of my mind it will be late and early I will always think on you Dear Mary it was my own Inclination for to go to Australia and with the help of God I intend to make the better of it I thought to be with Charles McAnally and I was vexed that I was not but I was put back for another time. I Know my mother and Sisters will be vexed after me but I never could make a Rise of it in this country after we had parted if we do not meet in earth beneath I hope we will all meet in heaven above never more to be sepearated My mother has written to John it might be Christmas before I have a chance of going away I am not shure [sure?] how long it may be gave [give?] my love to my Grand mother I was glad to hear by your letter that aunt Ellen was greatly improved at the store gave [give?] my love to all my friends and wellwishers |
