| Title: | R.Chesney, Portglenone, to His Daughter Jane, Canada |
|---|---|
| ID | 619 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Chesney, Robert/162 |
| Year | 1832 |
| Sender | Chesney, Robert |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Co. Antrim, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Canada |
| Recipient | Jane |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | father-daughter |
| Source | T3238/1: Presented by Mr H.K. Moore |
| Archive | The Public Record Office Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9501229 |
| Date | 25/03/1832 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 23:01:1995. |
| Word Count | 757 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | To: In Care of Mr Stewart Graffton, [Grafton?] Little York, Upper Kennada [Canada?] For David McClure Township Toronto Upper Kennada [Canada?] From: Robert Chesney Born 1767 died 1837 Married Elizabeth Bovill Original of letter at 21, Ridley Gardens. Toronto Canada Largy, 25th March, 1832. Dear Son and Daughter, We have got an other [another?] opportunity of sending you this letter with our friend, Alexander Hollinger, whom we expect will deliver it safe to you. And this is the third letter we have written to you and we are astonished that you have never sent us an answer, which leads us to think you have not received our letters. We received one letter from you since you left us, bearing date September 19th 1830, which gave us much pleasure to hear that you got safely over the Atlantic and arrived safely at your father's place. The only important news we have to relate to yiu [you?] in this letter, and we are sure will strike you with much grief and trouble, is an account of your Mother's death. She took the disease about the beginning of May 1831/. It commenced like a severe cold attended with a bad cough and a bad taste in her mouth, her feet and legs swelled, and by applying medecine [medicine?] the swelling went off, which gave us great joy and hope of her recovery but the disorders still increasing and her bodily strength still deminishing [diminishing?], she took a vomiting of blood and spitting the same till at length being worn out by the sickness and disease, she departed this life on Wednesday at 11 o'clock at night being the 20th.July, 1831. She waked on Thursday, and on Friday was carried by her friends and good old heighbours [neighbours?] and was interred in the burying ground at Templemoil [Templemoyle?]. Prayer was frequently offered up to God on her behalf both by ministers and good old neighbours, and she always showing marks of Christian fortitude joined with them in their prayers to Almighty God and through all her illness still trusting in her Saviour, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Your brother Robert has been in a very poor state of health these past two months, but thank God he is recovering, and I am but very delicate in health myself but I thank God I am still able to go about, and the rest of your brothers and sisters. The last letter I wrote to you, your Mother had great trouble directing me how I might send her love to you in every line of it, but I may lament she is not here to direct this time. She was a loving Mother and an affectionate wife, and I was much grieved at her death, but I hope she has gone to a better country. She will not come back to me, but I must go to her. Your brother George is married to a daughter of Wm. [William?] McAllister's, and her name is Jane. He got a little farm of land containing 6 acres with her. He is living on it at present. Your brother John has a daughter born onto him and names it Catherine. Your brother William has a daughter born to him, and names it Peggybell, after a discreet woman Peggybell Craig, who has heenin [been in ?] a poor state of health this past two months, but is in a way of recovering and who desires to send her love to you. Molly McMillan is married to John Bar [Barr?], brother to Robert Bar, [Barr?] Kitty Lagan, Charles Lagan's daughter is married to John O'Neill, brother to Hugh O'Neill. I shall give you an account of some of your old neighbours that have died since you left home. Thomas and Robert McMillan are both dead. Old Charles Gruffin [Griffin?] and Kate Hamill are both dead. John Rid and sister Betty Rid and Mary Clifford are all dead, the latter died in childbirth. Vitualling is very cheap, oatmeal 10s. per hundred, potatoes 8d per bushel, trade is very low. Our Country is in a very troubled situation by a party spririt which seems to be on both sides. Your brother John is sending you a letter with Alexander Hollinger and your brother William will send you one shortly as he intended to take his family to that country if possible, and he would like to have your opinion concerning it which you might observe to me next time you write. We hope you will write to us as soon as possible for we are uneasy to hear from you. Your brothers and sisters all join with me in sending you our love. Hoping these lines will find you all well, so no more, at present. But remain your loving father (signed) Robert Chesney. |
