| Title: | Mrs M Beeman, Connecticut to J. Smyth Douglass, Dungiven |
|---|---|
| ID | 154 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Beeman, Margaret/9 |
| Year | 1907 |
| Sender | Beeman, Margaret |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Connecticut, USA |
| Destination | Dungiven, Co. Derry, N. Ireland |
| Recipient | Smyth Douglass, James |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | loosely related |
| Source | D/2547/17 Presented by Rev. R. Entrican, Bovevagh House, Dungiven, Co. Londonderry |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N. Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9705302 |
| Date | 22/5/1907 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 23:05:97. |
| Word Count | 282 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | James Smyth Douglass [Douglas?] Esq. Rose Brook Boveia Dungiven London Derry Co. Ireland East Windsor Ct. May 22 1907 Mr James Smyth Douglass [Douglas?] Dear Sir I am an entire stranger but I am writing to you as a near relative. I am your Aunt Rebecca's oldest child but it is not possible that you should know anything of me as your brother and sister were very little children when I left Ireland a little over sixty years ago. Naturally you will say, "Why is she writing to me?" It is this; I greatly desire to know about Mother's people on both sides, (the Edwards and the Douglasses) as far as you can find trace of them by looking in the old family Bibles, if they are still in existence, or in the old family records of the town. If it is not too much trouble please find out what Grandfather Edward's given name was and the dates of birth marriage and death of his father and grandfather. I know not if you are still living but if not perhaps one of your family will find out what they can for me. I remember the old place well. I lived at the house of Uncle Douglass when a little girl and your mother lived there. I attended school at the Dumfeat school house. Ah me! those days are long since past. I have nothing to communicate that would interest you, only I and my husband will have been married 56 years when the 8th of July comes. We have one son and daughter and two grandchildren a boy and a girl. Hoping you will find what I ask and will be much obliged to you I close as your loving cousin Mrs Margaret Beeman Broad Brook R.F.D # 1. Conn. Care of J. F. Strong U.S.A. |
