| Title: | Mrs Wm. Parke, Ballinalong to Wm. [Wiliam?] Parke, Virginia. |
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| ID | 2049 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Parke, Mary/49 |
| Year | 1860 |
| Sender | Parke, Mary |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Ballinalong, Ireland |
| Destination | Virginia, USA |
| Recipient | Parke, William |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | wife-husband |
| Source | T 1648/18: Copied by Permission of Miss M. Parke, 9 Bridge St., Banbridge, Co Down. #TYPE Let Mrs Wm [William?] Parke, Ballinalong to Wm. [William?] Parke, [Petersburg, Virginia] 15th Oct. [October?] 1860. |
| Archive | Public Record Office N.Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8810072 |
| Date | 15/10/1860 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | 18:10:1988 LT created 05:09:1989 ET input 07:09:19 |
| Word Count | 416 |
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| Transcript | [sallinahoice?] Monday 15th Oct.[October?] My own Dear Husband I got your most welcome letter 21 sept. [september?] on Sat. and yesterday your scrap Sept 27th Thank God you were quite well And all the news good - All here pretty well too poor Tilly complaining and she begins to look so sade [sad?] about my leaving. I can't think love how I ever will part her and Dada will not hear of her going with me, I feel far more sade [sad?] at the prospect of leaving than I did two years since and were you not in that country nothing ever could tempt me to it again I can only trust and hope my own love the time is not far away when we will be able to make our home in this old land and where we may see the faces of those we hold dear occasionaly [occasionally?] I do hope you will succeed in getting some place where we can keep a cow. As I realy [really?] don't know what this little one would do without milk, and steralised [steralized?] I almost wish now when the parting draws near I had never [come?], much as I have been benefited by it I fear they will all miss me more than ever I know poor Tilly will be inconsolable, and little one too is another to part - I am not going to answer your long letter till I hear from the Agent in Liverpool dada has written him - Mrs [McNiece?] goes to Galway 23 in the ["Prince Abarte"?] so I gave up the idea of going with her, had she chosen any other vessel I might have tried to go with her, but as it is I gave up the idea, so I think I will go by the Cork probably the Thursday last day of this month - as I dont [don't?] think I will have heard from you in time to go sooner - I wrote just three weeks ago to-morrow and I suppose it will be a fortnight yet before I hear from you moma insists on paying my passage out - I am trying to get a little orphan girl out of the poor house to go with me and expect to know to-morrow if I can succeed so love I will write you D V after that - I heard from Mary yesterday all well there - Goodby [Goodbye?] my own husband ever - believe [me?] the [sincere?] [devotion?] of wife |
