| Title: | I. Martin, Sangatrick, U.S.A., to Her Mother, Ireland |
|---|---|
| ID | 3700 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | martin, isabella/21 |
| Year | 1866 |
| Sender | Martin, Isabella |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | middle-class housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Sangatrick, USA |
| Destination | Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Mrs Shaw |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | daughter-mother |
| Source | D2709/1/3: Presented by Miss Shanks, Ballyfounder, Portaferry, County Down |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9501357 |
| Date | 06/08/1866 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 26:01:1995. |
| Word Count | 589 |
| Genre | |
| Note | N.B. her husband is prob. a merchant. |
| Transcript | Sangatrick Aug [August?] 6th 1866 My Dear Mother I write you these few lines to let you know that we are all well at present thank god for his goodness to us hoping these few lines will find you and father ingoying [enjoying?] the same blessing you will be thinking I have forgotten you by this time when I quit writing I think a bother to begin Nickey and William has not had the ague this summer Nickey called to se [see?] me last week sam talks of going home to se [see?] you and father this fall and I will send you the price of a Dress for your self I am very in mush [much?] oblidge [oblige?] for the little Dress for Maggie Jane you sent I made her another out of the pice [piece?] that was the bag and the skirt you sent me I had to rip it out and I took the brown pice [piece?] and put a strip up the sids [sides?] it took the whol [whole?] pic [piece?] and I lenthed [lenghthened?] it with a pice [piece?] of a dress and I made Maggie dress short and put six tuks [tucks?] in it and trimed [trimmed?] it with the work you sent in the letters and a belt with the [insewn?] you sent I got the feathers all night the things was never opened fethers [feathers?] is very dear here so is evry [every?] thing I was over in Chicago this summer and got My likeness me and Nickey and baby the man had not them redy [ready?] when I came away Nickey sent them but I have not got the letter yet I would a wrote last week only waiting but I will waite [wait?] in a week or till Bella [Isabella?] Megecan [sic] and I will send one to you and I will give her one you will se [see?] if I be failed anything when you se [see?] it Maggie is a fine Child of her age she has light hair and blue eyes I will send you some of her hair you can se [see?] it the are getting along very well this summer the [they?] had bad luck in the spring she was out in a blow it cost about 2 hundred pounds of your mony [money?] to fix her but Nickey thought it was better to lay out a little and have there lives safe but she has payed [paid?] it back long ago the [they?] are doing well now I never be frightned [frightened?] when it blows for the [they?] have good Canves [Canvas?] and good roaps [ropes?] and a good boat the [they?] are all well here Mrs Warnock was in seeing me to day the [they?] are well she has all her family at home now and the [they?] sew and the [they?] get plenty of work to do and she told me she was never as content since she came as now dear Mother if you knit any for sam knit soaks [socks?] for the [they?] have plenty of the longs [long?] ones I will write you a longer letter the next time I will not be so long in writing to you again sam got a letter from James Shanks remember me to Margaret and James and all my friends with kind love to father and you let me know when you write if father can read any and how you are getting along no more but I remain your affectionate daughter I Martin write soon |
