| Title: | Eleanor Robinson, Liverpool, to J. Weir Jr, Dungannon. |
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| ID | 2324 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Robinson, Eleanor/78 |
| Year | 1800 |
| Sender | Robinson, Eleanor |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | shop assistant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Liverpool, England |
| Destination | Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Weir, Sarah |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | daughter-mother |
| Source | D 1140/22: Presented by J.B & R.H. Twigg, Solicitors, Cookstown, County Tyrone. |
| Archive | Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9012015 |
| Date | 01/10/1800 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Action By Date Document added by B.W. 20:12:1993 |
| Word Count | 913 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | To: Mr John Wire Junr [John Weir, Junior?] Mercht [Merchant?] Stewartstown Dungannon [Postmarked] BELFAST From: Eleanor Robinson Liverpool October 1st 1800 My Dear Mother Your letters have long lay unanswered as I thought it unecesary [unnecessary?] to write you untill [until?] my Brother would be Going Home, but from the good news from Phill. [Philadelphia?] I will Give you a Short Detail of our proceedings, as I send you Silass [Silas'] letter inclosed [enclosed?] Jas. [James?] had a letter from Mr. Smith the [they?] are all well but will not give you the particulars as I will Send it Home with John I Expect him Here. About the 6th I am longing for his Comeing [Coming?] when he left this we are all thought by the time he would Return that poor Mr Hern would be Entirely recovered but am sorry to tell you that he is no more he got a Change for the worst on the 21st and died the 23 at 2 O'Clock he Spoke Sensible to the last moment and to all appearance Suffered very little he fretted very much About Mrs. Heron [Hern?] not Comeing [Coming?] and so many letters wrote for her he made me Write my Self which he Said Should be the last and So it was Except the one About his Death I would have given a deall [deal?] my Self for her to been here as it was a hard matter for me to do What I had for Him for he often Said that if he would live that he would Reward me and if hed [he would?] Die that the Allmighty [Almighty?] would, he left his Watch to Templeton with his Name on it, there is no word from Mrs Heron [Hern?] yet we have had a deall [deal?] of trouble but this Could not be Helped as we were the only freands [friends?] he Relied on. I got Mary Ann Cutt for the Small Pox She has had a Merciful turn an [and?] is now Quite Recovered was only 2 days to Call Sick and only 12 lovely pox the Rest of the Children are all well John is Walking Charmingly and is grown a far better Child. Alie was very sick Comeing [Coming?] Over She Appears to do Remarkable well and Very fond of M. A. [Mary Ann?] who is a Good Child She Says She will give her doube [double?] Nursing for love to them that She is Called for, Peggey is doing better then [than?] when you left this She pleases the Gentlemen boarders well which is a Great Matter. Jas. #PAGE 2 [James?] Vexed me Greatly About her Saying that if Hughey Came over She Should not be here but keep this a Secret from them all. the Old Shaul [Shawl?] & peteCoat [petticoat?] was for Rosey I know nothing of them Going - we have 5 boarders besides Wm [William?] Lawson Who I Cant [Can't?] Get a lodging for any Other place we had a freindly [friendly?] letter from his Uncle lately but I wish he was out of this as when he misbehaves Jas [James?] blames me you no [know?] his Old way Wm [William?] McGee is left us which I am not Sor-y [Sorry?] for it was with mutal [mutual?] Consent of both parties his Mother is Dead in Child Bed he still calls to see us Arther [Arthur?] C Alin is here this 2 Weeks waiting on the Wind. Mr Gousten of Ballerowning [Balleroney?] is here this 2 days he is Waiting on this Same we have got a [Jam?] for the Shop on triall [trial?] Recommendit [Recommended?] by Mick Dunbar he seem to do very well but will Settle Nothing About him till John Returns our business is Encreasing [Increasing?] very much partichuarly [particularly?] the butter trade. John give James the Best lecture he Ever got which I think has done him a deall [deal?] of Good... Jas [James?] Called About the teaurn [tea urn?] She Said it was two [too?] long kept to ask her to Change it but I think if She was flattered she would still Exchange it, but John Said it never Should Come over and would not let me Speak a Word about it your Gown & petecoat [petticoat?] is Coulered [Coloured?] Miss Richard has Got it you will not like it much when you See it as the Rascall [Rascal?] has made a bad black and without me going to Change Could Do nothing with him it has Vexed me very much I Got 1 Yd [Yard?] & 1/2 at Mr Otens it was 5s/6d per yd [yard?] that was 8s/3d the Coulering [Colouring?] was 8s/6sd... you will mention in your next letter About Wm [William?] or if you Spoke to Mary Ann Concerning his Cloaths [Clothes?] and Diet as I no [know?] so well the great Expence [Expense?] there at at (sic) Keeping him never Say the trouble there is Another thing you no [know?] I Mentioned to you that is his Schooling I think I have told you all the particulars of our family so must have Done with my Kind Love to my poor Old Grand that Im [I'm?] so Glad to hear is better and Hugh Mary Ann. Willey. Sally & Jas [James?] with all the Rest of the family I Conclude My Dearest Mother your Ever Affectionate Daughter Eleanor Robinson [----?] will be oblidge [obliged?] to you if you let her freands [friends?] now [know?] that Jack and family are well but do not as yet [----?] Adeu [Adieu?] |
