| Title: | Isabella Martin, Chicago, Illinois To her Mother, Ballyfounder, Portaferry |
|---|---|
| ID | 3698 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | martin, isabella/16 |
| Year | 1871 |
| Sender | Martin, Isabella |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | middle-class housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Destination | Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Mrs Shaw |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | daughter-mother |
| Source | D2709/1/7: Presented by Miss Shanks, Ballyfounder, Portaferry |
| Archive | The Public Record Office Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9501336 |
| Date | 15/10/1871 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 26:01:1995. |
| Word Count | 334 |
| Genre | |
| Note | N.B. her husband is prob. a merchant. |
| Transcript | Oct [October?] 15th 1871 My Dear Mother I write you these few lines to let you know that we are all well at present thanks be to god for his goodness to us for sparing our lives and property we have had a great fire in our city and it has laid waste the most of it and it is awful to think of it I will send you a paper and you will see the fire was a good ways from me but if the wind had changed it would have burned us out Sam and William had a narrow escape the fire caught the vessel but the [they?] got it out and it not do her any harm the [they?] got a tug boat and towed her away the [they?] are well and Nancy man is with Nicky yet he was not in Chicago when the fire was burning and I was glad for I had such a mind about Sam and William I can't write about it I have got no answer to the last letter write soon and let me know how you are all getting along I hope this will find you well I thought you would be uneasy to hear from us give my kind love to Margaret and the children and I hope you are happy and content I have little to write except of fire old Peggie Reid is burned out she had a farm her house and place is burned and William Gibsons barn and all his grain is burned he is from Kirkcubbin there is one of John Barnes sons of Glastry along with Sam and William on the Enterprise sailing he is well he was telling all the news from home and Ellen Reid Mrs Reid youngest daughter is married to a son of old Thomson the Blacksmith I will bid you good night and may god bless you is the prayer of your affectionate daughter I [Isabella?] Martin N write soon do write soon remember me to friends |
