| Title: | [?] [Smith?], B,mony, [Ballymoney?], to Mrs J Smith, Moycraig |
|---|---|
| ID | 2505 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smith, John/36 |
| Year | 1841 |
| Sender | Smith, John |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | inn keeper and distiller |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Moycraig, Co. Antrim, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Smith, Jane |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | son-mother |
| Source | D.1828/55: Presented by James Steele, Mosside, Ballymoney |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9510036 |
| Date | 01/01/1841 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 12:10:95.g |
| Word Count | 402 |
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| Transcript | To:Mrs James Smith Moycraig Sabbath Dear Mother you wished me to rite [write?] you a few lines to let you know how I liked to live in Bmony [Ballymoney?] I just like it something like what I thought sometimes I think that I could live in it and some thines [times?] I think long anney [any?] other when I see every one repearing [repairing?] to their home which I had to go to a house with out an oner [owner?] I may say for it is hard to now [know?] the rite [right?] ones it is never me that could live in such a Hd [Hard?] way but I expect that I shall not be long troubled as I think that he will soon get a teather [tether?] stick that will take the trouble of us I will not say of him for I think that J [?] he fetches one that needs a girl with her he would need to look if she has got a fortune to suport [support?] her for it is not a [-----?] or too in the [---?] that will keep up a wife it would hardly keet [keep?] a house keeper and him fi [if?] he was to sit free and get the Whiskey for nothing you will think it strange to miss is [us?] from home on a sossode [Moss-side?] fair day and the oner [owner?] away but a roling [rolling?] stone gathers no moss and I would still like to see the oner [owner?] of the place on the ground there is one thing that he will not eat [-----?] ham bone and it would not fit James to be [lean?] for D[--?] me Mother but the we [wee?] lases [lasses?] gets as mutch [much?] as the men I think that people niver [never?] knows the temper of one till [until?] the [they?] be away from home John Speks [Speaks] more then when he was at home but never [----s?] but when a mouse goes in a basket I feel mutch [much] oblidead [obliged?] to you for sending [J---?] [-------?] letter to us you must think that we car[torn] little about it or esle [else?] J[torn]ld have sent I forgot to say that we sold a bottle of hop yesterday John is not fearet [afraid?] to let the[-?]ee and him or [torn] he is no [--------?] [torn] one or the other |
