Title: | Solomon Moody, Australia, to Abraham Moody, Ireland |
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ID | 1855 |
Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
File | Moody, Solomon/19 |
Year | 1866 |
Sender | Moody, Solomon |
Sender Gender | male |
Sender Occupation | Justice of the Peace |
Sender Religion | unknown |
Origin | Truro, South Australia, Australia |
Destination | Ireland |
Recipient | Moody, Abraham |
Recipient Gender | male |
Relationship | brothers? |
Source | T2901/3/13: Copied by Mrs Maine-Reid, 30, Ballymullan Road, Crawfordsburn, Co.Down |
Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
Doc. No. | 9505148 |
Date | 24/06/1866 |
Partial Date | |
Doc. Type | EMG |
Log | Document added by LT,05-17-1995. |
Word Count | 822 |
Genre | |
Note | |
Transcript | Truro 24th June 1866 My dear Abraham, I have received your letter of the 11th April and am glad to find that you are pleased with the young Australians and their mother. An other nice little girl has lately been aded [added?] so that I can boast two sons and three daughters. Joseph has sent his lot accompanied by the pictures of three aborigines by the last mail two men and one woman. You seem surprised to to [sic] see so much change in my appearance. Still it is not surprising sixteen years makes a large hole in a lifetime and those who have tried it knows that as much even in the most favoured countries it is no small affair for a stranger who has not any money to begin with to make an independency and aquire a respectable position in society. This is not done without much toil and care and the effect of care and toil is easily traceable - you see it in the picture and I feel it. I am thankful however that it has not been labour in vain I have got beyond the reach of probabable want and my social position is a magistrates position here is of more consequence than at home as there is as yet no hereditary arristocracy [aristocracy?] and a seat on the Beanch [bench?] is a seat among the peers of the land. My family thinks one will have a good special position and you know better than I do what an advantage this is to those who know how to make a proper use of it. It is remarkable how [dearly?] some of the Coleraine named have become to me I was much puzzled about "Lily Anderson" for the time I had quite forgotten that comfortable looking little [Penthe?] man he will not I hope forget me when he comes to consider the disposal of his 30,000 Magilligan names are still familiar as home. I am very glad to hear that Ruth affair has turned out well. I should like to get the likeness of all your family they would prove as acceptable to us as ours to you. I often think about Margret and her lonely lot but I suppose she is contented - she always was contented. We are all well here except John and he is rather better than usual I will tell him how concerned you are about him but I do not think it will have much effect upon him he knows the misery & sin better than anyone can know it who hase [has?] not suffered on account of it as he hase [has?] suffered It is not possible for those who have happily never gone to the same lengths in sin to realign that misery. All that they can say must pale for that of the reality. All that they coud [could?] do, therefore is to do as you have done pray that he may receive help from him who is mighty to save of all objects of compassion the hopeless sinner is the most to be spiritual. The seriousness and sadness of poor Johns case has caused me to forget for the time some things that I intended to write but it was not any thing of importantance [importance?] Remember me to Wm [William?] Clark and any one whom you you think still takes an interest. in me. I repete [repeat?] your concluding prayer. May the God of our fathers and I trust our God be the God of our succeeding generations and that to bless them Solomon (SOLOMON) better than I could reasonablly have expected. The Government hase [has?] been kind enough to make me one of her Majestys Justices of the Peace And the preliminary steps in connection with this appointment were of a character calculated to make it as gratifying as possible they were taken without my knowledge when I was absent from the colony on a visit to Victoria. When I returned I had a letter from the Magistrate who presides at the courts of Kapunda, Auguston, Tarunda, and Riverton, to say that the Magistrates of the District had recommended that I should be made a Justice of the Peace and that he heartily concurred and wished me to consent to act so that he might forward the recommendation of the Government at the same time and without any knowledge of what the Magistrates were doing the people of Truro and neighbourhood petitioned their Government for the same purpose. It will add considerably to my care and had I considered myself alone I would have declined the honour, but out of respect for the magistrate who sought my cooperation and the friends and neighbours who regarded me with so much respect and confidence but mainly on account of my family did I accept the responsibility. I delight in my family and am anxious to do all that I can for them. |