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ID
File
Collection
Year
Title
Sender
Occupation
Recipient
ID:5262
File:19
Collection:Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-1757 [T. Truxes]
Year:1756
Title:Cunningham, Waddell to Haliday & Dunbar, 1756
Sender:Cunningham, Waddell
Occupation:merchant
Recipient:Haliday & Dunbar
ID:2274
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1769
Title:John Reynell, Philadelphia, to Thomas Greer, Co. Tyrone, Ireland.
Sender:Reynell, John
Occupation:businessman
Recipient:Greer, Thomas
ID:3869
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1775
Title:Extract of a letter from Baltimore, December 13, 1774
Sender:unknown
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:3899
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1785
Title:Letter from Philadelphia [U.S.], to Newry
Sender:unknown
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:433
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1798
Title:Petition of John Caldwell Senior to Lord Cornwallis
Sender:Caldwell, John Sr.
Occupation:linen merchant
Recipient:Charles Marquis Cornwallis
ID:1467
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1804
Title:James Horner, Philadelphia, to Thomas Horner, Ireland.
Sender:Horner, James
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Horner, Thomas
ID:6612
File:19
Collection:Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan. Letters and memoirs from colonial and revolutionary America (1675-1815) [K.A. Miller et al.]
Year:1807
Title:Crockett, George Jr to Crockett, George Sr., 1807
Sender:Crockett, George Jr
Occupation:entrepreneur, trader
Recipient:Crockett, George Sr.
ID:781
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1812
Title:Mary Cumming, Petersburg to Rev. Andrew Craig, Lisburn.
Sender:Cumming (n. Craig), Mary
Occupation:middle class housewife
Recipient:Craig, Margaret
ID:5969
File:19
Collection:The Transatlantic Letters of an Irish Quaker Family_1818-1877 [B. Jackson]
Year:1819
Title:Nicholson, Thomas to O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne, 1819
Sender:Nicholson, Thomas
Occupation:merchant
Recipient:O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne
ID:1208
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1821
Title:Robert Givin, Alabama, to his Father John Givin.
Sender:Givin, Robert
Occupation:manual labourer
Recipient:Givin, John
ID:4737
File:19
Collection:Revisiting Our Forest Home, The immigrant letters of Frances Stewart [J. L. Aoki]
Year:1827
Title:Stewart, Frances to Edgeworth, Honora, 1827
Sender:Stewart, Frances
Occupation:housewife
Recipient:Edgeworth, Honora
ID:4561
File:19
Collection:Authentic Letters from Upper Canada [Rev. Thomas Radcliff]
Year:1832
Title:From Thomas W. Magrath, Esq., to the Rev. Thomas Raddiff, Dublin.
Sender:Magrath, Thomas Wm
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Rev. Thomas Radcliff
ID:3933
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1833
Title:Letter to John Humphrey in South Carolina.
Sender:unknown
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Humphry, John
ID:1955
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1842
Title:Matthew Neill, Kentucky to Samuel Neill, Co. Down
Sender:Neill, Matthew
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Neill, Samuel
ID:694
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1843
Title:[S.D.?] Corbitt, U.S.A. to W. J. C. Allen, Belfast.
Sender:Corbitt, S.D.
Occupation:businessman
Recipient:Campbell Allen, William J.
ID:5664
File:19
Collection:The Prendergast Letters. Correspondence from Famine-era Ireland (1840-50) [S. Barber]
Year:1844
Title:19. From James Prendergast to his son Thomas
Sender:Prendergast, James
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Prendergast, Thomas
ID:3731
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1844
Title:Letter to the Tenants on the Killyfaddy Estate, Co Tyrone.
Sender:Maxwell, J.W.
Occupation:landowner
Recipient:tenants on the estate
ID:131
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1846
Title:Hugh & Elizabeth Barkley, Ireland, to "Brother & Sister", Canada
Sender:Barkley, Hugh & Elizabeth
Occupation:farmers
Recipient:Stewart, A. & A.?
ID:56
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1847
Title:John Anderson, Cincinnati to brother, William, Co. Tyrone.
Sender:Anderson, John
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Anderson, William
ID:1557
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1848
Title:Henry Johnson, Hamilton to Jane Johnson, Antrim.
Sender:Johnson, Henry
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Johnson, Jane
ID:1113
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1849
Title:Manaseh Gallagher, New York, to Thomas Gallagher, Ohio, U.S.A.
Sender:Gallagher, Manaseh
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Gallagher, Thomas
ID:2021
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1850
Title:John Orr, Sacramento, To Rev. John Orr, Portaferry.
Sender:Orr, John Malcolm
Occupation:miner (gold digging?)
Recipient:Rev John Orr
ID:3829
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1851
Title:John McFarland, Nova Scotia, to Mother, [Ireland?]
Sender:McFarland, John
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:2077
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1852
Title:Letter from Abraham Patterson, Ohio, To William Hunter, Tyrone, Ireland.
Sender:Patterson, Abraham
Occupation:works at a furnace
Recipient:Hunter, William
ID:2260
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1853
Title:James A. Reford, New Jersey, USA to Fanny Reford, Co. Antrim
Sender:Reford, James A.
Occupation:businessman
Recipient:Reford, Frances
ID:3550
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1853
Title:Samuel Laird & Brothers, Philadelphia To Parents [Ireland?]
Sender:Laird, Samuel
Occupation:looks after cattle
Recipient:unknown
ID:1249
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1854
Title:Andrew Greenlees, Troy, New York to Parents [Ireland?]
Sender:Greenlees, Andrew
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:570
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1857
Title:John Carse, Pennsylvania, to "Brother Robert."
Sender:Carse, John
Occupation:merchant
Recipient:Carse, Robert
ID:4257
File:19
Collection:Oceans of Consolation [D. Fitzpatrick]
Year:1857
Title:Wyly, Isabella to Wyly, Matilda, 1857
Sender:Wyly, Isabella
Occupation:shop assistant
Recipient:Wyly, Matilda
ID:1904
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1858
Title:James Moty, Quebec, to W. J. Alexander, London.
Sender:Moty, James
Occupation:barrister
Recipient:Alexander, William J
ID:1435
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1859
Title:William Hill, S. Carolina, to His Brother David, Ballymena.
Sender:Hill, William
Occupation:businessman
Recipient:Hill, David
ID:638
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1860
Title:Adeline Clarke, Augusta to Eleanor Wallace, Newtownards.
Sender:Clarke, Adeline
Occupation:housewife
Recipient:Wallace, Eleanor
ID:581
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1861
Title:Thomas Carse, Jeffersonville, to "Brother John"
Sender:Carse, Thomas
Occupation:shipping clerk for a railway company
Recipient:Carse, John
ID:3331
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1862
Title:John Wightman jun., San Francisco to John Wightman, Belfast
Sender:Wightman, John Jr.
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Editor of the Belfast News-Letter
ID:1250
File:19(2)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1863
Title:Andrew Greenlees, Dayton, Ohio, to his Brother.
Sender:Greenlees, Andrew
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Greenlees, John
ID:2348
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1864
Title:Richard Rothwell, Quebec, Canada, to Rosa Rothwell, Co. Antrim
Sender:Rothwell, Richard Jr
Occupation:mechanic
Recipient:Rothwell, Rosa
ID:4044
File:19
Collection:Argentina - Murphy
Year:1864
Title:John James Murphy to Martin Murphy, 20 May 1864
Sender:Murphy, John James
Occupation:cattle breeder
Recipient:Murphy, Martin
ID:1436
File:19(2)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1865
Title:William Hill, Abbeville, S. Carolina to David [Hill?], [Ballymena?].
Sender:Hill, William
Occupation:businessman
Recipient:Hill, David
ID:1855
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1866
Title:Solomon Moody, Australia, to Abraham Moody, Ireland
Sender:Moody, Solomon
Occupation:Justice of the Peace
Recipient:Moody, Abraham
ID:384
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1867
Title:Harper C. Bryson, U.S.A. to W. J. C. Allen, Belfast.
Sender:Bryson, Harper C.
Occupation:businessman
Recipient:Campbell Allen, William J,
ID:4179
File:19
Collection:Argentina - Pettit
Year:1868
Title:Murphy, Kate A to Pettit, John, 1868
Sender:Murphy, Kate A
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Pettit, John
ID:6330
File:19
Collection:Carlow-Coogan Letters
Year:1869
Title:Coogan, Michael (Brother Declan) to Doyle (n. Coogan), Margaret, 1869
Sender:Coogan, Michael (Brother Declan)
Occupation:monk/shoemaker
Recipient:Doyle (n. Coogan), Margaret
ID:2298
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1869
Title:Alexander Robb, British Columbia, To Sister [in Dundonald?]
Sender:Robb, Alexander
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Susanna?
ID:2227
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1870
Title:Rowland Redmond, New York, to William Young, Cullybackey, Co. Antrim.
Sender:Redmond, Roland
Occupation:merchant
Recipient:Young, William
ID:1132
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1871
Title:James Gamble, Oregon, U.S.A., to "Dear Mother," Co. Down.
Sender:Gamble, James
Occupation:miner
Recipient:unknown
ID:2160
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1872
Title:William Porter, Chebanse to Robert Porter, Ireland
Sender:Porter, William
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Porter, Robert L.
ID:4500
File:19
Collection:The McIlrath Letters: A family history in letters from New Zealand to Ireland (1860-1915) [Bassett, McKee et al.]
Year:1872
Title:McIlrath, James L to McIlrath family, 1872
Sender:McIlrath, James L
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:McIlrath family
ID:843
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1875
Title:Prospects of Emigrants in Canada.
Sender:Donaldson, John A.
Occupation:emigration agent
Recipient:Mr Foy
ID:1039
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1876
Title:John Fife, Philadelphia to John Hamilton, [?].
Sender:Fife, John
Occupation:attorney
Recipient:Hamilton, John
ID:6216
File:19
Collection:Ulster Migration to America. Letters from three Irish Families [R.A. Wells]
Year:1876
Title:Edward J. Hanlon to John Hanlon (in New York)
Sender:Hanlon, Edward J
Occupation:store keeper
Recipient:Hanlon, John
ID:1351
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1878
Title:Anna Hay, Canada, to Rev George Kirkpatrick, Co Antrim
Sender:Hay, Anna
Occupation:housewife
Recipient:Rev George Kirkpatrick
ID:1380
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1879
Title:Tom Hay, Canada, to Mother, Anna Hay, Peterborough, Canada.
Sender:Hay, Tom
Occupation:manual worker
Recipient:Hay, Anna
ID:2556
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1880
Title:A.W. Smyth, New Orleans, to Miss N. Bouligny, [New Orleans?]
Sender:Smyth, Andrew Wood
Occupation:surgeon
Recipient:Bouligny, Nato
ID:4369
File:19
Collection:Patrick McMahon Glynn: Letters to his family (1874-1927) [Gerald Glynn O'Collins]
Year:1882
Title:McMahon Glynn, Patrick to Glynn, Ellen, 1882
Sender:McMahon Glynn, Patrick
Occupation:travel agent
Recipient:Glynn, Ellen
ID:4206
File:19
Collection:The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride]
Year:1883
Title:Reynolds, Mary to Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann, 1883
Sender:Reynolds, Mary
Occupation:head of household
Recipient:Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann
ID:2200
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1886
Title:[Lorena Ramsey?], Nebraska To "her Dear Cousin Annie".
Sender:Ramsey, Lorena
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Weir, Annie
ID:343
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1887
Title:Letter from P. Browne to Father, mother and brothers
Sender:Brown, P.
Occupation:unemployed, formerly a coal worker, now hoping to get a job
Recipient:unknown
ID:2430
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1888
Title:Nicholas Shanks, 3122 Rhodes Ave. Chicago To James, Ballyfounder, Portaferry
Sender:Shanks, Nicholas
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Shanks, James
ID:886
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1889
Title:Mary [Duckett?] [?] to "Dear Annie".
Sender:Duckett, Mary
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Weir, Annie
ID:195
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1890
Title:Lytle Black, Chicagp, U.S.A., to Thomas Hall, Loughgall, Armagh.
Sender:Black, Lytle
Occupation:businessman
Recipient:Hall, Thomas
ID:2387
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1891
Title:Mary [?], Detroit, to "Miss Weir"
Sender:Savage, Mary
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Weir, Annie
ID:395
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1892
Title:James Buchanan, Milford to Robert Buchanan, New York.
Sender:Buchanan, James
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Buchanan, Robert
ID:3580
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1893
Title:Lena [?], Michigan, to "Dear Annie"
Sender:Lina
Occupation:asylum attendant
Recipient:Weir, Annie
ID:3733
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1894
Title:Susan McAleece County Tyrone to William McNair, Wyoming, 1894
Sender:McAleece, Susan
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:McNair, William
ID:1342
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1895
Title:W.K. Harshaw, Paterson NJ, to John Harshaw, Ringclare, Co Down
Sender:Harshaw, W.K.
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Harshaw, John
ID:2418
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1897
Title:Agnes Shakespeare (Nesta), Alberta, to "My darling Mother"
Sender:Shakespeare, Agnes
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:1354
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1898
Title:Lizzie Hay, England to J J Smyth, Castledamph
Sender:Hay, Elizabeth (Lizzie)
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Smyth, John James
ID:6384
File:19
Collection:New Brunswick Letters
Year:1898
Title:Gun, Robert to Seymour, James, 1898
Sender:Gun, Robert
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Seymour, James
ID:2727
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1899
Title:Incomplete Letter to Miss E.C. Smyth, Castledamph
Sender:Smyth, James Alexander
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Smyth, Eliza C.
ID:6688
File:19(1)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1901
Title:T. Hay, [Johannesburg?] to B M Smyth, Castledamph.
Sender:Hay, Thomas
Occupation:soldier
Recipient:Smyth, Bella M.
ID:1364
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1901
Title:T. Hay, [Johannesburg?] to B M Smyth, Castledamph.
Sender:Hay, Thomas
Occupation:soldier
Recipient:Smyth, Bella M.
ID:6256
File:19
Collection:Your Fondest Annie: Letters from Annie O'Donnel to James P.Phelan [A. O'Donnell]
Year:1902
Title:O'Donnell, Annie to Phelan, James, 1902
Sender:O'Donnell, Annie
Occupation:children's maid
Recipient:Phelan, James
ID:681
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1902
Title:Cook & Leach, Independence, Iowa, to J. Peel & Son, Armagh.
Sender:Cook & Leach
Occupation:solicitors
Recipient:Peel, Joshua
ID:2936
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1904
Title:M Smyth, Ontario to J J Smyth, Co Tyrone
Sender:Smyth, Mary
Occupation:student
Recipient:
ID:688
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1905
Title:H. M. Cooke, Toronto to J A Smyth, Ontario
Sender:Cooke, H.M.
Occupation:doctor
Recipient:Smyth, James Alexander
ID:2937
File:19(2)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1907
Title:M. Smyth, Castledamph, to J. A. Smyth, Ontario.
Sender:Smyth, Mary
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Smyth, James A.
ID:3186
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1909
Title:Jean Warwick, Antrim, to Cousin Ethel [Davies?], U.S.A.
Sender:Warwick, Jean
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Davies, Ethel
ID:293
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1910
Title:J.W. Brien, Ontario to J.A. Smyth, [London?]
Sender:Brien, J.W.
Occupation:physician
Recipient:Smyth, James Alexander
ID:2552
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1912
Title:Arthe [Hay?] Dunamanagh To Mrs A.W. Smyth, New Orleans
Sender:Smyth Hay, Arthemise
Occupation:housewife
Recipient:Bouligny Smyth, Nathalie
ID:1660
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1929
Title:Anna Martin Cook to her sister Clara
Sender:Martin Cook, Anna
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Martin, Clara
ID:3770
File:19
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1937
Title:Emma McClintock, U.S.A., to "Dear Emma Alberta".
Sender:McClintock, Emma
Occupation:upper middle-class socialite
Recipient:Emma Alberta (Bertie?)