| Title: | Bella M. Smyth, Castledamph to James A. Smyth, Ontario |
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| ID | 2568 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smyth, Bella Maggie/48 |
| Year | 1896 |
| Sender | Smyth, Bella Maggie |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | farming household |
| Sender Religion | Presbyterian |
| Origin | Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Essex Co., Ontario, Canada |
| Recipient | Smyth, James Alexander |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge, Co Tyrone, castledamph@btinternet.com |
| Archive | Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge. |
| Doc. No. | 0410211 |
| Date | 06/02/1896 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, 28:10:2004. |
| Word Count | 887 |
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| Transcript | Castledamph February 6th 1896 Dear Brother In an[torn] letter which we receive[torn]ing we are glad to he[torn] are getting along all [torn] [--pears?] you will not have much time to lose when your examination will be so soon The Miss Dunbar's (sic) is getting along very well in regards teaching she has the inspector examining to-day so we will shortly know how she done for the quarter it was hard for her to have them ready for an examination for they knew very little when she came They dont think as much long now as they did at first but I dont think they would stop here if she would get a school in some town Well I may tell you that our practise class is closed Mr and Mrs Steen came Friday night last and he made us sing over all [torn]s that would be sung till Ma[torn]n he said we could have an[torn] if we liked, and to close [torn]ent, a good many would rather he had stopped at home I dont know what is the matter with Charles McCullagh in not answering your letter I suppose carelessness, he got the address often enough, them and Miss Dunne is not agreeing too well now she could not get George too (sic) learn any at school he would do as he pleased and strike her often too So she told his father and mother but that was all she had for it. The blame all left on her So then the [they?] sent him to Barness school so you may guess how Miss Dunne got along then she was treated like a servant and scolding her from she went in tell [till?] she came out after paying for her board and giving them all the money tha[torn]d that was her thanks, she [torn]ing in Uncle James at one time [torn]ple advised her to stop as[torn] could and now she has got some more money and George is back at school and they are in pretty good terms with her again The examination will be on the 19th I told you in the last about the wedding at Plumbridge but not all that happened Muldoon was driving tumbled the car at Gortin and nearly killed the newly married couple he was badly hurt but she was not so bad, they did not drive as far as they would done, so then he tumbled again at James Orr and gave them another bruise his own car was broken at Gortin and he got James M. Hamilton (sic) car to drive home, the doctor was brought to Shearing and such a day [torn] Alex Duncan was down a[torn] went in to the wedding house [torn]d stopped till morning Shearing [torn]n a few days and started to Scotland on Saturday last so, on account of so much fun there was a song made and A [Alex?] Duncan was not missed either, it is blamed on the Dunbars Letterbratt, and a great deal of anger about it, Then there was another wedding on Sunday and cars broken, John Nicholas Kerney and a daughter of Thomas Kirke's [Kirk?] Drumnaspar Kirke [Kirk?] borrowed Charles McCullagh (sic) car and was leaving it home about 9 oclock Sunday night put in a young mare of Kerneys and she was not quiet and so he tumbled horse and car and all[torn] could not get her loosed so they took a sledge and broke the car, cut harness and destroyed all Old Thomas left the car and harness down at plumbridge yesterday to try and get it fixed, father saw him and he says its a clean wreck, We dont know whether Charley will take it back or not, so then at weddings the fashion is to break the cars Uncle James is not getting all the stilling to himself now Alex Duncan has done a fair share at it this last while he done one about a week ago and did not care who seen him, over in t[torn]se they commenced at night a[torn]e till dinnertime the next [torn]y saw the smoke, and Tommy[torn] lifting the barrel, Sarah Elkin [torn] C McCullagh that it was the fifth brewing for them to run and they were afraid of nobody the people say the police drinks their fill of it some of them go to court and they are apt to get a glass I dont [torn] [know?] [torn]hether [whether?] [W?] Houston will stop at home or not, he is a good help to do away with some of the potion over in Eden There is a concert over in Gortin to night Mary was asked over but she did not go Robert Scott second wife is dead, and buried on Monday last there is more grief with the children now, than when their own mother died, Jane McKernan has been very ill for the last fortnight the doctor was up four times with her, Mother was over twice and on Saturday she did not expect that she would recover, but she is improving [torn?]day, We have thirteen young [torn]ks old again Sunday the are [torn]y well now The good [torn] continuing still the others is that [torn] the [they?] have no time to write, if you understand this writing I think you will have all the news Bella M Smyth Transcribed by Shaun P. Cheyne |
