| Title: | [?], Ballintur, Co Down, to "Dear Son". |
|---|---|
| ID | 855 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Doran, Jane/71 |
| Year | 1897 |
| Sender | Doran, Jane |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Ballintur, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Destination | America? |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | mother-son |
| Source | Document Presented by & Copyright Retained by Sharon DoranTurnbow, 6321 Roosevelt St., Coloma MI 49038, 616 849 0240.Sharon@parrett.net or info@sandcastlescottages.com |
| Archive | Centre For Migration Studies |
| Doc. No. | 111060 |
| Date | 18/01/1897 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, Td by Michael McKnight, 25:1 |
| Word Count | 357 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | Ballintur January 18 1897 Dear Son I take the pleasure in sending you these few lines hoping to find you all well as this leaves us at present thank God. I had a letter from you a few weeks ago and see by it you enlarged your farm is the farm you Bought Convenient to your own i see Mary Burke Come to see yous I supose [suppose?] you hardly knew his you have a good deal of corn on hands potatoes this year is selling at 30 shillings a ton and 26 the [they?] were a pretty good crop oats is selling at 3 and sixpence and 4 and 9 pence a hundred and hay a [at?] 1 shilling and sixepen [sixpence?] and 2 shillings a hundred flax is about 4 shillings a stone horses is a poor price you could get a good horse for 12 pounds and sheep is very cheap 15 to 16 shillings Barney Magee [Magee's?] son Willy is joined the Nevy [Navy?] his Dipo [Depot?] is Southampton England he was at home for Xmas he looks well It would rais [raise?] a good deal of cash if prices wer [were?] as good as the [they?] were some time ago. Well in regards to Bellenedden [Ballyneddan?] there was 14 and a half tons of potatoes and prices wer[were?] so poor in the beginning of the season we sold only a few tons of our own we held them on to March thinking prices would get better but the [they?] fell every day and we had to sell at 15 shillings a ton and about april the [they?] wer [were?] seven pence a hundred i got settled for the land in Bellenedden [Ballyneddan?] and after all expences is paid there is 84 pounds in Bank last year i [I?] sowed clover and grass seed in the field under the roads it will be for hay or graising [grazing?] this year we will be letting Bellenedden [Ballyneddan?]land in a few days for another year if we can i haven't sold any hay yet if you want any money that is heare [here?] you can have it any time (Transcribed by Michael McKnight.) |
