| Title: | Edward Parks, St Sylvester, Quebec to "Dear brother". |
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| ID | 2067 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Parks, Edward/3 |
| Year | 1871 |
| Sender | Parks, Edward |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | Protestant |
| Origin | Quebec, Canada |
| Destination | Ireland? |
| Recipient | |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | T 2680/2/15: Copied by Permission of W. P. Williamson Esq., Ahorey House, Richhill, Co. Armagh. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9007155 |
| Date | 06/02/1871 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 25:02:1994. |
| Word Count | 810 |
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| Transcript | St Sylvester Feb 6th 1871 Dear brother After a long silence I now sit down to write a few lines to you to let you know how we are getting along you must excuse me for not writing sooner for we did not know aney thing [anything?] about John Edward and I did not like to write to you until we would hear from him we could not tell what had become of him but we had a letter from him the week before last and we were rejoiced to hear from him he said that he was well and doing well he sent us his picture and it looks verry [very?] well he seems to like that place verry [very?] well better than Canada Dear brother we have great reason to thank God for his maney [many?] merries to us both temporal and spiritual which he has conferred upon us we are all well at present and we trust that these few lines may find you all in the enjoyment of good health and prosperity. We had a very fine crop last year and verry [very?] favourable weather for saving it and we had good sale for our farm produce we sold about 35 pounds worth of pork last year and #12 10s worth of sheep and lambs and #25 worth of butter We have got two good horses as good as there is in the country and we keep eight or nine cows besides a lot of young cattle and eighteen or twenty sheep we make the most of our own clothing from their wool it costs us nothing only the carding of the wool as we spin it and weave it ourselves I also weave a good deal for other folks in the winter season Our eldest son William has got married they have two children he bought a farm about seven miles from here for 150 pounds and we have to help him to pay for it he has 100 pounds paid on it we also bought 90 acres of land convenient to our own place it is situated near a river and is well adapted for hay #PAGE 2 we paid 116 pounds for it and have it all paid for. I suppose you will think that we have land enough for all our family but young folks in this country like to ramble about and John has been away a few days ago about 60 miles from here and bought 100 acres of new bush land at three dollars 15 per acre he says it is splendent land and that there is plenty more of it at the same price I offered him a share of the place at home but he prefered [preferred?] to take the other there was land enough here for us all and plenty of work too for he is all the boy we have that is able to work much Thomas is not able to work aney [any?] but he is teaching school and Robert James is too young yet to do much But John will not leave us for a year or too [two?] yet Maria our eldest daughter is in the States she has been away about two years and a half she gets 10s per week she is working in a hotel and she seems to like it verry [very?] well We have two girls at home yet Jane and Mary We have a very fine minister here and we are going to build a new church next summer it is to cost 1000 dollars and one third of the money has been paid to the builder The prices of provisions are as follows pork from 4/ 1/2 to 6/ 1/2 beef 3/ to 5/ per lb butter 10/ to 1s. Tea 3s per lb sugar 6d to 7d oat meal 16s per cut and flower [flour?] has lately got up to #2 per [barl?] on account of the war In to days [todays?] paper we see that paris has surrendered and we hope that the war is at an end it has been a terrible war and I believe that it is good for protesants that the prussians are victorious had it been otherwise it might not have been easy to deal with the catholics #PAGE 3 Dear brother I must conclude this by wishing you the blessings of God I would like to se [see?] you all but I suppose that cannot be give my love to all my friends and old neighbours I need not mention names And be sure to write soon and let us know how all the old friends and neighbours are getting along and Mary wants you to let her knoe how her brother John is and tell him to write her a letter So good bye [goodbye?] for the present from your ever loving brother Edward Parks |
