| Title: | Thomas F. Carman, New York, to Mary Cahill Nolan, Missouri. |
|---|---|
| ID | 542 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Carman, Thomas F/16 |
| Year | 1907 |
| Sender | Carman, Thomas F. |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | store keeper |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Destination | Missouri, USA |
| Recipient | Cahill Nolan, Mary |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | cousins |
| Source | Emigrant Letters of the Fitzgerald Family, Co. Tipperay, 1829-1907. Copyright Reserved by Edwina Goddard, 750 San Fernando St., San Diego, CA 92106, U.S.A. |
| Archive | The Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh. |
| Doc. No. | 9511084 |
| Date | 11/12/1907 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 17:11:95. |
| Word Count | 453 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | From: Thomas F. Carman, Brooklyn, New York To: Mary Cahill Nolan [living in Kansas City, Missouri at that date] Letter in [missing] envelope. 780 Bedford Ave. [Avenue?] Brooklyn, N.Y. [New York?] Dec. [December?] 11, 1907 My Dear Cousin I received your letter of the 8th Oct [October?] and just got a job the day before in Lord & Taylors B.Way [Broadway?] and 20th St [Street?] N.Y. [New York?] City. The hours to work is from 8.30 am to 6 p.m and a day or two after I got three orders from 3 drug stores for two gro [gross?] each of Wards Horse and Cattle Spice and them orders has kept me busy nearly ever since as I have to work at it after I come home at night and I dont get home untill [until?] after seven. Dear Mary I was sorry to hear of Eleanor's death particularly my thinking that she was married and well off for the past twenty years. You was surprised to think that I was married and have seven children. Well I am surprised myself as I never thought I would get married. My brother Patrick is in Ansonia Conn and has a large family. Some of them are married. I have not seen him in ten years. Father and Mother died in Ireland. My Mother is dead only 6 or 7 years and have two sisters living in Ireland yet, Ann & Kate. I think Aunt Kate is living yet at least she was five years ago. All the rest are dead. Aunt Eliza is dead about ten years, aunt Margrett [Margaret?] about seventeen years. She died in Lakeville Conn. [Connecticut?] She left one son & one daughter, James & Ellen Stuart. James has a carriage factory and blacksmith shop and Ellen keeps a fancy store in Lakeville. We also have second cousin of our mothers in Conn [Connecticut?] the Bishop of Hartford Bishop Tierney. Dear Mary I have not heard anything of Sennotts in ten years. At that time Peter lost his daughter, a fine young girl. Peters wife kept a laundry and kept Peter. Magie [Maggie?] got married and I heard she got a bad husband. Mary Jane, Ellen or Bridgett [Bridget?] never got married. Dear Mary I am glad you got such a fine family but they are getting pretty well scattered but a few hundred miles is nothing here. You say William is looking he ought not to look nor feel old let him not feel old anyway. Let him think of his brother J.C. He is a wonderfull man when last I saw him he looked old enough to be Williams father. Dear Cousin I have nothing more to say but my family are in fine health thank God and I have drank nothing but tea & milk in twenty three years. My kind regards to William and all the children Your loving cousin Thomas F Carman |
