| Title: | 48. From Elizabeth Prendergast to her son Thomas |
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| ID | 5693 |
| Collection | The Prendergast Letters. Correspondence from Famine-era Ireland (1840-50) [S. Barber] |
| File | prendergast/48 |
| Year | 1850 |
| Sender | Prendergast, Elizabeth |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Liverpool, England |
| Destination | Boston, Mass., USA |
| Recipient | Prendergast children |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | mother-children |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 219 |
| Genre | waiting for passage |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Thomas Penderg[...] No 79 south street Boston North America Liverp[...] My Dear and Loving son Thom[...] I tak this fa[...] writing these few lines hoping t o [...] Brothers and sisters and Con and [...] good health as this leaves me and [... ] Riordan and Patrick Fitzgerald [...] Thanks be to the Great God for all his [...] and also Maurices family and Michaels wife and family. Dear Thomas I wish to let you know that we are here 7 days under heavy cost waiting until the ship sails. Her name is Noibe and her captains name is Soule which is to Leave Liverpool on the 21st instant. We have no account of the Western star. I have to inform ye that there was not 6 persons in the boat but fell sick from Cork to Liverpool but myself which braved that much [...] well Thanks be to god [...]lth and courage to cross the [...]lso the rest of them [...] say but we all join in one [...]ends you all kind love and [...] Loving mother until Death. Elizabeth Pendergast Florence Riordan wishes to be kindly Remembered to his loving Brother and his wife Julia and to all the Boys. May the Blessing of God be with you all. |
