| Title: | Hugh & Elizabeth Barkley, Ireland, to "Brother & Sister", Canada |
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| ID | 131 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Barkley, Hugh & Elizabeth/19 |
| Year | 1846 |
| Sender | Barkley, Hugh & Elizabeth |
| Sender Gender | male-female |
| Sender Occupation | farmers |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Killycoogan, Co. Antrim, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Smith Falls, Upper Canada |
| Recipient | Stewart, A. & A.? |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | T.3616/1/2: Presented by K. F. Stewart |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9408105 |
| Date | 20/08/1846 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 03:08:1994. |
| Word Count | 776 |
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| Transcript | Killycoogan August the 20th 1846 Dear Brother and Sister [-----?] and no [m-----?] I take up my pen to write you strange tidings of joy and grief first I will give you an acount [account?] of the Death of your dear Father he was blessed with good health untill [until?] the Twentyfourth of july when he was seized with a kind of grovel which he never got better of untill [until?] the Twelth of August about 20 minutes past 3 oclock [o'clock?] in the morning when Death cured all his pains he died as he lived calm and resigned to the will of his hevenly [heavenly?] father, if we had not bee [been?] watching we would not seen him Die he Died so calm he just slept away and was sinsible [sensible?] to the very last, he died on Wednesday the 12th instant at 3 oclock [o'clock?] in the morning and was buried on friday the 14th at 10 oclock [o'clock?] forenoon his funeral was the largest ever seen on this Road except a party funeral and I must tell you that he wanted for no comfort that after money or friendship could purchase for friend and stranger was on the alert from the moment he took ill till his last he was regular attended by Doctor Moddin and the Revd. Mr. McKay who administered every thing [------?] judgement and still could do both for his [temporance?] and eternal comfort, the Doctor took away his water regular so that he got lying easy and comfortable but it was no grovel [sic] he had it was just that much of his body Dead from the moment he took it, we had only about four nights to set up I was still one and sister [--rowford?] and we sat up the night he Died we had you and family often our head During the night and though absent you and your family were never forgotten in the prayers that were offered up either by friend or stranger I gave you an acount [account?] of your unkle [uncle?] Mathews death in the Last letter I wrote you he died on the 12th June 1845, from the time your aunt mary died Joseph was Disturbed in mind and after unkle [uncle?] Mathew died he went entirely wrong and attempted the life of Wally Gibson in unkle [uncle?] Davids we got him sent to the assylum where he improved for a time but after he came home he got as bad as ever and is now very bad and dangirous [dangerous?], I will now give you something strange Our sister sally johnston from Boston Arived [Arrived?] here in the beginning of February last which in some respects gave us great satisfaction her oldest daughter Maryann is maried [married?] to a man called savoury a lemner [sic] and lives in Boston Isabella is maried [married?] to a man called Charles and lives in Providence in the state of RhodeIsland sally had to sue james smyth and [torn] Robert [does?] for her [fortunes?] she decreed the £20 the [they?] apealed [appealed?] to the asizes [assizes?] and for love to [torn] B[torn] again she settled with them for ten pounds and [torn] strange to tell the very night your father took leave of her going away he took his Death she calls her self Mrs. Courtney she maried [married?] Thomas Courtney of Portglenone and had three children two of them are dead and the third was in consumption which she came away she got your adress [address?] from me and said she would write to you when she would go home I could fill a newspaper with things you would like to hear but write as soon as this comes Direct to the (care of Doctor Moddin Portglenone for Hugh Barkley of Killycoogan County of Antrim Ireland) The Letter you sent last winter was opened by two or three and would have been sent away again only for john Andrews as respects any of our familys or worldly estate I have nothing particular to mention our early potatoes was smitten with the Blight = = in the midle [middle?] of July and both early and late was [gone?] About 12th [Inst?] I do think before the month of November next there will not be any potatoes here either for seed or Bread there is a great many reasons and cures given but of none effect but there is nothing surer but it is the Breath of an angory [angry?] god there is every appearence [appearance?] of famine write imediately [immediately?] and we Remain your brother and sister with love and respect Hugh and Elizabeth Barkley. [postmarks on cover of envelope] PORTGLENONE SE [SEPTEMBER?] 2 1846 PAID AUG [AUGUST?] 30 1846 SMITHS FALLS U.S. SP [SEPTEMBER?] 25 1846 Adam Stewart Emsley township Leeds County Smiths falls Upper Canada |
