| Title: | Seymour, William to Seymour, Lydia, 1899 |
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| ID | 6377 |
| Collection | New Brunswick Letters |
| File | newbrunswick/12 |
| Year | 1899 |
| Sender | Seymour, William |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | policeman |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Belfast, N. Ireland |
| Destination | St. John, N.Brunswick, Canada |
| Recipient | Seymour, Lydia |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | cousins |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 528 |
| Genre | family, getting info on a fortune |
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| Transcript | R.I. Constabulary Ballynafeegh Belfast 26-4-99 My Dear Cousin I got your kind and welcome letter a few days ago, and need I say how very glad I am to hear from you and to learn that you & all dear friends in St. John are quite well. You will I am sure, be glad to learn that myself and my dear old woman and children (4 of whom are living) are quite well thank God. Our oldest boy John is 16½ years and is still going to school He has won a lot of prizes and is pretty smart but I don’t know yet what he is going to be. Then, we have Edith who is 9 years old, going to school also & is promising to be a good scholar. She is learning to play the Piano nicely. Our two youngest Kathleen & Willie did not begin to go to school yet. I suppose dear Cousin you have got a family, but you did not mention scarcely anything about yourself or Cousin James, or your dear Mother in your letters. I should be very glad to hear of you all when you write again! Well now about that long talked of old fortune. I really don’t know what to say, for you know I done everything that I possibly could do about it long ago, and sent your dear father (Uncle Edward) a book and all the information I could at that time gather. As regards the inquiry made by my sisters I know nothing: but I fancy it was not of much importance or I would have heard about it. Indeed dear Cousin to tell you the truth, my own opinion is that the report is only all moonshine, for I never got any sound information as to the name of the man who was supposed to have left this money; nor to whom it was really left, and until positive information is got on that point its only throwing away money to be looking after it. If I was quite sure of the man’s name who is rumoured to have left this money – about the time when it was left, & to whom I might then be able to trace it. You know the Court of Chancery was tried but there was no trace of a fortune there being left to the heir of Edward Seymour. I suppose you have heard from Cousin Tom ere this, he knows more about the matter than I do, and of course he will tell you all he can. I have not been to Cork this long time therefore I can’t tell you much about the Friends there more than that my dear Father – your Uncle, Aunt Susan, are still alive & well, also Cousin Tom’s Mother – Aunt Eliza, but both Aunts are very old & feeble I now conclude joined in love by all my dear ones to yourself and your dear Husband, Cousin James & his wife and Aunt Susan. Hoping you all are quite well; and hoping to have a long letter from you very soon (On first Page) I am your affect. Cousin Wm Seymour |
