| Title: | Boyd, Susanna to Hammond, Helenah, 1864 |
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| ID | 4328 |
| Collection | Oceans of Consolation [D. Fitzpatrick] |
| File | oceans/90 |
| Year | 1864 |
| Sender | Boyd, Susanna |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Bleary, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland |
| Destination | Belfast, Victoria, Australia |
| Recipient | Hammond, Helenah |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | sisters |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 960 |
| Genre | condolences, news |
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| Transcript | September 16 1864 Bleary My Dear Sister I Send you These Lines In Answer To yours. I am Glad To Hear From you to Know That you are yet Alive Though we All are Sory For The Death of Joseph. Edward Feels Much For you on Account of the Loss of Joseph But Let It Teach you and me that In the Midst of Life we are in the Midst of Death. As for your Sircumstances Strive and be Content and Cast your Care on the Lord And He will take Care of you And your Family. As for my Husband and Myself our Health is Much Worse than it used to be. But thanks to God for all his Mercies to us our Childern are all well and able to work and Hard it is to make a living by weaving for the webs is so long and wages little though wages is a little better these last few Months than the have been for some years. Our oldest Daughter Myann [Maryann] is Maried to William Coskin and has too [two] Children a son and a daughter. The rest of our Children is all with us the are all girls. The [?youngest] is near 6 years old she is Called Hannah. She is At Bleary School and so is the next to [two] older Maria and Susanna and the other 4 is waveng and Edward and myself attends them with the help of Maria and Susanna when the come home from School. Wee live in Bleary it is between Lurgan and the Brownmoss. We are here since Last January. Wee Pay 1s 6d weeck for our House and the Children still wave for Mr Henning of Waringstown since Before you Left Home. Some of then weaves orangs[?] work 17100 60 yards long and 30 inches wide 59 Hanks wft [weft] wages 12s and Bordered weebs [?webs] 7 dozen Long 28 inchs Broad 16100 wages 9s. Now Dear Sister you can see from this how we are Doing. I will let you see the price of our food. Flour too [2]s per stone oat meal 19d per stone india meal 15d per stone. Tea 3d per ounce suger 6d per pound Butter 14d per pound Bacon irish 7d per pound america 6d. Mrs Develin is well. She Sent for me when she Got your letter. She was very sory and so was Mrs Mcormick and her Childern. The all felt Much for you as Mrs Mcormick knows the want of a Husband herself for William Mcormick is Dead 2 years. The all Live toghather in the old Place. She has 3 Daughters the oldest is 16 years the youest is about 8 years old. She keeps a Grocer shop and Sends Reeds on hire. She Lives very Comfortable and takes Good Care of her Mother. I stayed some time with them the were very Glad to see me. Aunt Betty is unable to Walk this 3 years from A Stroke. Cousin Richard and the Rest of the family is well. He has 6 Cildren 4 Daughters And 2 sons. Ann Greigston is dead Long time ago and Left 3 Children 2 sons and 1 Daughter. Uncle Richard Thompson and Aunts is still Alive in the old place in Aughlee But is Getting old. I did not see them these many years But I hear from them by Cousin Richard. I Entainded [intended] to go down this Long time to see Mothers Grave But I Could not Get Away. But If I am Spared a Little Longer I Will go with the Help of God And I Will Bring A Leaf[?] of the Grave and Send It to you when I Write to you again. I Mack free Dear Sister to Ask what place of [?worship] your Family Attend as I never Could know Also how fare [far] you Live from it. 6 of our Children Goes to the Church School on Sundays At 9 oclock. Schools over At 11. 3 oldest, Ellon and Helena and Elizajane Stays for Church and 3 Comes Home. Dear Sister I Have not Got A Letter This [blotted] years past. I Have Heard in James Craigs Letter who was Married to Margret Stevenson. He says the are All Well And All Married And Sister Bess Her Husband is dead A year ore more. She has 3[?] Children. Dear Sister I expect you Have Heard of the Death of Father Before this. It is near 6 years Since He Died. Dear Sister you May thank God that you are not in Ireland. You would Scarce Meet Any one you Would Know so many dead And so many Gone to Queensland and New zeland and America. Now Dear Mary Jane As you wish to know how Many Cousins you have I will tell you. There are 8. There are Maryann But She is in her own house she was [?here] to Day And is well. The next is Ellen And Helena And Elizajane And Margret And Maria And Susanna And little Hannah. The Are All Clean Healthy Thanks Be to God. They Are All glad To Hear From you All. Now Dear Sister That God May Bless you And your Family Is the Sincere Prayer of your Affectionate Brother and Sister to Death Edward and Susanna Boyd Why do we mourn departing friends Or shake at deaths alarms Tis but the voice that Jesus sends To call them to his arms Why should we tremble Co convey Their bodies to the tomb There the dear flesh of Jesus lay And left a sweet perfume. When you write Direct to Edward Boyd Bleary Near Lurgan Irland. Let me know the particulars of Josephs death. Please write adres[?] soon. |
