| Title: | Anne Jane Watters, Temperanceville to Eleanor Anderson, Coagh. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3191 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Watters, Anne Jane/4 |
| Year | 1848 |
| Sender | Watters, Anne Jane |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Temperanceville, Virginia (USA) or Ontario (Canada) |
| Destination | Coagh, Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Anderson, Eleanor |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | sisters |
| Source | T 1664/1/8: Copied by Permission of Mr J. G. T. Anderson, Lurgan, Co. Armagh. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8901015 |
| Date | 18/10/1848 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 29:09:1993. |
| Word Count | 784 |
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| Transcript | Miss Eleanor Anderson Ballymaguire Coagh County Tyrone Ireland Temeranceville [Temperanceville?] October 18th 1848 My Dear Sister, You & my dear friends with you may think I am getting careless about answering your kind letters (but it is not so) I still love you all as well as the day I parted you & yearns more to be in reach of seeing you all since the bereavement in our family took place. My Dear sister the chief cause of my long silence is want of time - on the 2nd of last March we got the addition of a little soney [sonny?] to our small number of young ones now we have 3. Mother will remember Elizabeth [?] was born on the 14th of March & David [?] was born on the 3rd of March 2 years after now the baby William James was born the 2 of March 6 years after David; Willy is very fat & very good, yet I feel it a great trouble to begin to nurse again Elizabeth & David goes to school the [they?] are both excedingly [exceedingly?] high for their age, W.J. [William James?] is very well he stops at home with us now my health is not very good I don't have good health when I am nursing my food turns all to milk The last I have heard from Brother, at cincinnatta [Cincinnati?] was a letter from, Br, [brother?] J [John?] telling me of the death of his wife she was confined in January of a dead born babe & she did not recover but died near the 1st of April I am very sorry for poor John & I am very unhappy about him not writing to me since, he said then his health was very miserable with fitague [fatigue?] I answered his letter instantly requesting him to come & stop with me for a while so he would get well I shall write to Brother George when I get this letter finished. Dear Ellen it is 5 weeks since I began this I intended to have it with you before James White left home as I wanted to ask Mother & Brother James if it suited them to send me my Dear Fathers last gift with him but he is here long since #PAGE 2 he was here twice to see us let Isabel know that Mr & Mrs Musgrave has spent a day with us not long since & we were a day with them last week they are all very well Mrs Musgrave says she expects a sister of hers out this fall if she comes the [they?] could not get a better hand to send the money with to me I don't want them to hurry & send it with any one whose principles are doubtful but the first good chance the [they?] get of one coming here if they can make it suit them I would thank them for it you will please tell Brother James I sent him a letter last spring but I think the person I sent it to the post office with did not post it I shall write to him soon give my love to him & his wife & children & to Aunt Hall Mr Holmes & family is quite well J Kells is quite well I hear from you always by his letter he generaly [generally?] comes to see us when he gets a letter Dear Sister J Kells was here yesterday he has just received a letter from his Father it had a few lines in it from brother Josep [Joseph?] to me he gave me 48, dolars [dollars?] & 30 cents & I gave him a receipt in full for ten pounds My very Dear friends I am very very gratefull [grateful?] to you not only for your gift but it convinces me of the good feeling you bear to me which I apreciate [appreciate?] more than the gift it is very rare to see Lagacys [legacys?] enhansed [enhanced?] by those who have to pay. Dear Ellen I am glad I did not start this letter about one hour past I have received a letter from brother John he is very well & writes gayly [gaily?] as if in good spirits he says he has an invitation to go home he asks my advice, if he goes, I hope he would get into such a scratch as I got he says Brother George & family is well, give my love to Mother & Brother Joseph give my love to the Miss Henerys [Henry?] tell me if you ever hear of Mrs Houston or what of her Dear [Ellen?] you & Joseph write often to me for believe me I am ever truly you afctionate [affectionate?] sister. Anne Jane Watters Temheranceville [Temperanceville?] |
