| Title: | Auty Staint[on?], London, to Mrs Duffin, Belfast. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3028 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Staint, Auty/79 |
| Year | 1900 |
| Sender | Staint, Auty |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | London, England |
| Destination | Belfast, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Miss Duffin |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | penfriends (letter about ancestry) |
| Source | T 116/5: Obtained from Miss Duffin, Summerhill, Stranmillis, Belfast. #TYPE LET Auty Staint[on?], 21 Victoria Square, London S.W.1, to Mrs Duffin, Belfast: Genealogical References. 20th November,[?]. |
| Archive | Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9005200 |
| Date | 20/11/1900 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | 22:05:1990 JMR created 02:11:1990 CD input 05:11:1 |
| Word Count | 332 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | To:- Miss Duffin From:- 21 Victoria Square S.W.1. Telephone: Victoria 0293. Nov 20 Dear Miss Duffin, It is now over a month since you very kindly wrote to me & I owe you a big apology. We have been most interested in what you told us & it clears up a lot of odd references in such papers as we have. It seems almost certain that one of the brothers of M[rs?] Baites and Robert Grimshaw had a daughter Elizabeth who married her cousin the son of the William Murphy of Stranmillis. I enclose a photograph of [Adam?] Duffin & his wife [Maria?] and the pedigree of the Grimshaws. I gather that up to the 1880s there were Osbornes of the same family as the one mentioned as marrying Conway [Bliz?] and Grimshaw in the pedigree, & [?] the diary of my great grand mother about 1860-1870 (who married the son of Mrs Baites and was herself (& [?]) first Elizabeth Grimshaw) talks a lot of an Annie Stewart who seems to be mentioned in this pedigree at the right hand bottom. I hope one day to come over at Belfast & ask for your kind offices [?] to introduce me to M[?] Gi[?]shaws. It sounds as though the Murphys and a family called [Cullimore?] (perhaps William Murphy's mother was a [Cullimore?]) were Quakers and it sounds as though the Grimshaws might have been Quakers too. There seems to be no trace of any surviving Murphys in Belfast. My aunt was most interested in your letter & thanks you as much as I do I see you put Marianne Grimshaw (who became Mrs [?]es & then Mrs Murphy was 1781-1854 and I see Nicholas was born in 1714. I have an idea that the Nicholas Grimshaw who founded the cotton factory in Belfast brought over from Lancashire his father called Nicholas & perhaps the Nicholas who was 67 in 1781 was Marianne's grandfather & not her father. It is all most interesting. Please forgive me if you can for my discourtesy. Y[ours truly?] Auty Staint[on?] |
