| Title: | L Hay, Liverpool, to B M Smyth, Castledamph |
|---|---|
| ID | 1359 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Hay, Lizzie/36 |
| Year | 1897 |
| Sender | Hay, Elizabeth (Lizzie) |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | Protestant |
| Origin | Liverpool, England |
| Destination | Castledamph, Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Smyth, Bella M |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | cousins |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge, Co Tyrone, castledamph@btinternet.com |
| Archive | Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge. |
| Doc. No. | 412009 |
| Date | 08/08/1897 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 06:01:2005. |
| Word Count | 693 |
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| Transcript | [Front of Envelope] [Envelope addressed to] Bella Maggie Smyth Castledamph Plumbridge Co Tyrone Ireland Stamped LIVERPOOL KC -? 8 0 C 97 NO 2 [Handwritten] Arrived Monday 11th Oct 1897 [Back of Envelope] Stamped NEWTOWNSTEWART PM 2 30 OC 9 97 Stamped [London?] [PM?] OC 9 97 [Letter 1] [Page 1] October 8.1897 5 Bute St Liverpool Dear Cousin I now take the pleasure of Writing to you a few lines hoping all our friends are well and in good health as this leaves us at present. Dear Cousin you must excuse me for not answering your letter before this as I had one for you and Tilda wrote out as the paper hangers walked in and I had to take all the things down so I put the letters in a small handkerchief box so it got moved from one place & another and never posted until I was going to scrape up Tommy [sic] letters altogether and found them my father carried on something awful called me fat head. Dear Cousin we had a letter from Tommy on Thursday morning from Port Said it took it twelve days to come it was wrote 24th Sep, [Page 2] last month they are only half way yet he said they thought it was a case with them crossing the bay but he said some one put some good on them to get [over?] it they have had a funeral on board by what he says in the letter he is keeping well himself. Dear Cousin it will be a long five years before any of us see him again maybe eight for all he knows yet they want to transfer him to the fourth hussars but he wont have it he wants to stay where he is and if so he will have to do eight if they do. Dear Cousin that young fellows [sic] that was at our house for Tommy while we were here his brother went to London to see them off the 17 of the month he said it was heart rendering it would bring a tear out of a stone he said he could have dragged them back if he dared but he could do nothing when it did not lay in his power. Dear Cousin with being upset he left his belt button stick razer [razor?] jacket behind him we had to send the jacket by Parcel Post to him we have the rest in the box, we have his young womans photo and a lot of others that he left [Page 3] behind so I will send it some day next week and you can send it back again to me she is going mad about him by the way. Dear Cousin I hope aunt Mary and uncle John James enjoyed the sea side holiday as my father was glad to hear of them going he said it would do them good. Dear Cousin I have not been well at all lately I think it was the upset of Tommy and my father carrying on as bad as ever but he is a little better this week he has had none so far he said as Tommys gone he has finished with the drink. he is not coming at Christmas he said it is not worth while as he is finished at April so I think Jack and Bob will be coming they are going to kill Mary when they come over again. Dear Cousin I hope Tilda. John. Willie Jim and uncle is alright tell Willie I will not get married till I see him again I dare say he has got a girl by this [sic] and then I off side with him now I will send you the silk next week for a bodice as I am buying it on Saturday. [Page 4] Dear Cousin you can tell William Smyth as my father is writing on Monday to him about the force so if he comes here he will get more than songs and tickled and taking the clothes of the bed and then he will shout. what are yous [sic] doing. I hope Mary. Eliza Tommy John Charley & my young man Willie John is alright. Dear Cousin I was thinking of coming over at Christmas but if I can manage it I will. I think I have said all this time I now conclude by bidding you all good bye for the present From Lizzie Hay to her cousin Bella. M. Smyth write soon. |
