| Title: | Margaret Armstrong, Lurgan, to Joseph Armstrong, Michigan. |
|---|---|
| ID | 90 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Armstrong, Margaret/52 |
| Year | 1875 |
| Sender | Armstrong, Margaret |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Lurgan, Co. Armagh, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Michigan, USA |
| Recipient | Armstrong, Joseph |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | cousins |
| Source | Donated by Donald J. Boyle, 51 William St., Brantford, Ontario,N373K6, Canada. email : don boyle @ worldchat.com. |
| Archive | The Ulster American Folk Park. |
| Doc. No. | 9806881 |
| Date | 09/01/1875 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, 25:06:98. |
| Word Count | 500 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | Windsor Terrace Lurgan Jany 9th 1875 Dear Joe I suppose you will be looking out for an answer to our last letter by the time you get this so I have told Father to have a letter written to either John or you to include in this to-day. We got yr [your?] very welcome letter just three days before Xmas. We guessed you wd [would?] remember us about that time. I suppose you had a letter from us about the same time. Well we talked of you & all the others on Xmas day & were wishing each & all a happy time. We had a very sweet goose done to perfection We said if Joe were here he wd [would?] like this. We have nothing very new since I last wrote all things go on in the old way. I wonder Mr Balham did not write you perhaps he did not get your letter. We have no means of hearing about him, but I guess they are all well. I hope Henry is good tempered with his wife she is a pretty good tempered healthy girl the last two are indispensable in a good wife - You remember Mr [Henning?] Robb who had a nice house at the bridge in Portadown tis his eldest daughter Hannah who is spoken of is going to be married to little Averill Shillington he is attentive to her I hear - sees her home from meetings &c if that is any sign in Ireland. I am sure he wd [would?] get a thousand pounds with her - She is the Miss Robb John met in our house with Sarah Shillington - she has red hair and on the whole is called unhandsome but is a very wise girl with a first class education acquired in England. Aggie Irwin was in lately - she was asking for you - She is likely to be married to a young man who lodges in her fathers David Irwins, he is a Mr Morrison in Armstrongs factory. I rather think she is doing the courting - I hope business will do well with you as the spring opens - every kind of trade is dull just now in this country & we see by the papers that business is very bad in the States - I hope John, his wife & family are well - We are glad to know that John is preaching again - Tell us if his Church is under this Conference - or is it independent of it - I need not tell you anything about Ivy [C---age?] as father will do that. Mother joins me in love to John his wife & family - not forgetting yourself. I hope you will write soon again & let us know how you are getting on - we were glad to know you had begun to serve God more fully than you had in the past there is nothing to equal religion even for this world Your affect [affectionate?] cousin Margaret |
