| Title: | Maggie Lowry, Canfield, Ontario to Andrew Lowry, Co. Donegal. |
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| ID | 3648 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | lowry, maggie/80 |
| Year | 1891 |
| Sender | Lowry, Maggie |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | Presbyterian |
| Origin | Canfield, Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Co. Donegal, Ireland |
| Recipient | Lowry, Andrew |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | niece-uncle |
| Source | T 2018/26: Copied by Permission of Miss K. Lowry, Argrey, Raphoe, Co. Donegal. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8903065 |
| Date | 30/10/1891 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 15:11:1993. |
| Word Count | 194 |
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| Transcript | Mr Andrew Lowry Ballindrate [Ballindrait?] P.O [Post Office?] County Donegal Ireland Canfield Oct 30th Mr Andrew Lowry Dear Uncle with great pleasure I sit down to write to you. We are pretty well and hope you are enjoying the same blessing. Grandfather and Grandmother is quite smart now. Grandfather had a paralytic stoke this summer. Uncle Gideon Cranston & Aunt Jane Knox are all well. We live about a quarter of a mile from Aunt Ann Walker. She is quite smart for her age. Our harvest was very good this summer. Pa is busy ploughing now. He moved and fixed his farms over this summer. There is just two girls of us Ellen Ann and I. We have no brothers. I wish you could come out to Grandfathers and Grandmothers golden wedding They will be 50 years married on the 22nd of November. I send you one of Grandfather and Grandmother's pictures and they look for one in return. We will send ours after a while. I have been going to write this long time but never got started till now. We all send our love to your all. I will draw my letter to a close hoping to hear from you soon. good Bye [goodbye?] Your niece Maggie J. Lowry |
