| Title: | Mary S. Cranston, Ontario to Andrew Lowry, Co. Donegal. |
|---|---|
| ID | 737 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Cranston, Mary S/30 |
| Year | 1889 |
| Sender | Cranston, Mary S. |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Ballindrait, Co. Donegal, Ireland |
| Recipient | Lowry, Andrew |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | niece-uncle |
| Source | T 2018/16: Copied by Permission of Miss K. Lowry, Argrey, Raphoe, Co. Donegal. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8903139 |
| Date | 08/07/1889 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 22:10:1993. |
| Word Count | 419 |
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| Transcript | Tapleytown July 8th/89 [8th 1889?] Dear Uncle No doubt you will be thinking by this time that I have forgotten you altogher [altogether?], I was very glad to hear that you were all well and enjoying good health well I have had a very busy spring of it and are just getting through well My brother Williams wife had a little girl in the 13th April which is doing splendid they got her christened yesterday (Sabbath), Clara Scott, my sister Ellen older than I was over [married?] Jane Knox's a month [?] has a little girl too and has been married 9 years, she named hers Ellen Ann, and I have wove about Forty six yds [yards?] carpet so you will see we have been pretty busy. You wanted to know the price of my brother's farm he gives $1.75 dollars yearly for one hundred acres and he has had splendid crops ever since he started although he is a pretty fair farmer. We just commenced haying to-day, We raise a great many fowl. Between Gesse [Geese?], Ducks, Turkeys, and chickens we have about 150 to take care of and they require constant attention, we are just coming to our prettiest time in Canada so you had better come right strait [straight?] through, We will be harvesting in about two weeks my little sister Annie is over to Uncle [Kirk's?] spending her holdidays [holidays?] they were all well the last time we heard, We have 5 [milch?] [milk?] [cows?] this summer, Butter is pretty low just [now?]. about 15 - 18c [cents?] a pound, we have had a very wet spring here till the last week it has been pretty dry, Aunt Ann is keeping as well as can be expected, I will send y [you?] soem newspapers, and one of the leading storie [story?] in Hamilton, We have never heard from Anne Margret Stewart since we got the first letter. #PAGE 2 We have 11 [strips?] of n [?] I wish you could see our flower garden on the sloop this dark red on his 10 beautiful bunched on and the large red on [one?] has If as big as tea cups they are called Geranaums [geraniums?] and I expect you know the shamrock, well I --vise this is all I have to say this time hoping to have some more news the next time With love from all - to you I remain ever your loving niece Mary S [Scott?] Cranston Hoping you will not be very long in replying as I have. |
