| Title: | Bella M Smyth, Castledamph, to James A Smyth, Ontario |
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| ID | 2594 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smyth, Bella Maggie/91 |
| Year | 1897 |
| 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. | 0311005 |
| Date | 09/09/1897 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, 03:11:2003. |
| Word Count | 498 |
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| Transcript | Envelope addressed to:- Mr. James A Smyth Essex Essex County Ontario Canada Postmarked on Front:- [Torn] (Written on Front) Ans [Answered?] September 24th 1897 Postmarked on Back of Envelope:- PLUMBRIDGE Sep 97 ESSEX Sp 13 97 HAMILTON - CANADA Sp 11 97 Castledamph September 9th 1897 Dear Brother A few lines to let you know we are all well hoping you still enjoy the same I suppose by this time you are at school business again for another year. You will be apt to think this year longer than any of them when it will be the last. Father Mother and William is at Bundoran since Saturday. We had a letter yesterday and they are enjoying themselves well Uncle Charles and Mrs. Willie Orr is along with them. Mother had a severe pain in her right shoulder for a week before she started but father said she was alright there. He sent you the Irish Times from there yesterday. We expect them home on Saturday first. They took two rooms for the week at eight shillings each it will cost them something let them have any benefit or not. We had a letter yesterday from Tommy Hay and he says he is fairly broken hearted since he left here he thought more of leaving the people here than he did Liverpool. They will leave for India on the 16th they are transferring some of them to the 4th Hussars and they will have to serve eight years in India and he hopes to get remaining in the 11th as four years will do them. He said he had a letter ready for you before he would start so he will give you all particulars. Tommy William and John went to Newtown [Newtownstewart?] this night week to see the fireworks. It was a grand sight. We could see them from here away up in the air and changing different colours but that was nothing besides to be near them. There was a terrible crowd about the railway. John said if you would lose anyone you might not try to find them. Aunt Eliza Sarah and Willie John was down from Omagh at that hour in the night. We had awful wet weather here on till [until?] Monday and since then it looks like harvest. We have one field of corn cut above the house the whins as its called the others is not very ripe yet. Tommy and John is with Andy Huston [Houston?] ones to day putting in the hay. We had Willie here last night and he played the fiddle for nearly an hour and not one of us ever knew he could play before, nearly all scotch tunes, (the highland fling) and a good many others. John [C?] has got to be a nice player Everyone says he will beat Dan in a short time he plays mostly every night and I suppose practice becomes master. Willie J Duncan I think is for starting tomorrow we heard so anyway he would not stop in Ireland now if he could get any other place. We sent you money last week and I hope you will get it alright. No more this time news is scarce for a week Your Sister Bella M Smyth (Enclosed Fireworks display inventory) |
