| Title: | Martha J. Wilson, Ontario to Thomas Reid, Co. Armagh. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3382 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Wilson, Martha J/9 |
| Year | 1856 |
| Sender | Wilson, Martha Jane |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | farming household |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Hope Township, Canada West (present-day Ontario) |
| Destination | Co. Armagh, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Reid, Thomas |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | D 3014/3/2/1: Deposited by H. F. W. Reid. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9102016 |
| Date | 10/04/1856 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 09:02:1994 |
| Word Count | 469 |
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| Transcript | Perry Town near Port Hope April 10/56 [10 1856?] Dear Thomas I sit down to write you again without having received an answer to my last although you promised faithfully that I should not have the same cause of complaint again really I am so ashamed of your carelessness that I shrink from naming you in the house many a time when I want to speak of you. but my business with you now, is not scolding, as I have not room, here nor time, to spend on you; at this time I hear through Aunt Johnston that you wrote to Sam Johnston that you were coming out here, and if you do I wish you to try and bring me that feather bed that Grandfather Reid left me & ask Mama to send me one of them spinning wheels or else, you bring me one & I think if you are thinking of leaving the country mamma ought to let you have Dada's medal it is of no use there, & it might serve you here I do not wish you to be greedy but I do wish that you should have a little share of what is there, with my name in it I want no money, but I want you at least to have a share of the books I would not ask them but they will be none the poorer if so I would say leave all but the [they?] will only get scattered and I care not who knows it but I got just 4 or 5 of the most useless in the bookcase poor Ellen got none nor anything else from there and it is only fair we should have a share 'tis all I ask you to have but I insist on your having it, so now I must stop If you are not coming write immediately if you are write the day you start but do not come by New York should this reach you in time if you are coming & should come by Liverpool just seek out No 32 Elliott St. you will find a Mr Eli Spencer who keeps a restaurant & Coffee house he is Uncle to Joseph, we had a letter & a bundle of papers from him lately tell him you are coming to us give my sincere affectionate regards to Ballynick friends I think Uncle John must be busy since he no time to answer my last letter tell him so and Henry might have written long since believe me as ever your affectionate but distant sister M. J. [Martha Jane?] Wilson Since writing the above we have received a letter from J S Boland they are all well when he wrote and he says he #PAGE 2 would be glad to see you. it is about 150 miles from this to where they live [addressed to:] Mr Thomas C. Reid Dont know where Country Such a place |
