| Title: | McIntosh, James & Jane to MacKintosh, Margaret, 1851 |
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| ID | 6397 |
| Collection | New Brunswick Letters |
| File | newbrunswick/32 |
| Year | 1851 |
| Sender | McIntosh, James & Jane |
| Sender Gender | male-female |
| Sender Occupation | linen traders |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Kilkeel, Co. Down, Ireland |
| Destination | St. John, N.Brunswick, Canada |
| Recipient | MacKintosh, Margaret |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | parents-in-law |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 924 |
| Genre | correspondence, decease, crops |
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| Transcript | Kilkeel June 12th 1851 Dear daughter you may think us very [ungratful] for not answering your very sorrowful letter before this But the reason was we sent it to Mrs Harrison Liverpool the next day thinking to get some word about Nicholas before we would write. We received yours 14th may and only got Mrs Harrison this [damage] opened and delayed in some post office as it was [open] large with a full sheet about it. But I put only ½ a sheet on mine She went to his lodging house and saw a young man their that saw N round the ho[cut] and would be home in a month or two from that time. My Dear Daughter when the letterman came in that morning we were in great Joy to Jas stopped reading and we knew their was something grievous in it and Jimy said he might as well tell it which to her grief she found it to be the death of her beloved son John that cost her the loss of many a stormy nights sleep. When the news went out through the town and especially amongst the old neighbours the house was like a wakehouse for three days but one of Arthur Staffords family never came into the door nor asked a word about him and we know no reason as them and we were always in good friendship Dear Daughter we can never agree or Know how the accident happened whether it was before the nets was shot or after or whether it was the claws of the instrument that took him or whether he was taken to the ground or if he might have been Killed or if taken to the ground or did the old man hawl it im-mediately or not perhaps he was confused But one is sure that he is lost to both you and us. Now Dear Daughter I hope youl not think we are casting any reflection on the old man or anything else for we are sure the case was as grievous to him as his own son And although it is grievous to you and your fathers family and [ourselves] likewise we have reason also to be thankful as before this happened that he had you and your Fathers family to look after him both alive and dead. And we hope that you will give our unfeigned thanks to any or all who lent a hand to look for him as our prayers are that them or any belonging to them may never happen a sudden death. about the time John died Archibalds 2 children died which was the first trouble happened us this 34 years since married but since that we have got our part of trouble last Saturday Harry McBrides wife Lydia got a stroke about eleven oclock scarcely spoke to 3 that evening when she died so their has been great trouble since that Archys son took his death the day I wrote a long letter to John that I wish I had not wrote. But I hope there is nothing in it that you or your Fathers family can or will be offended at for if anything it was not my intention to offend you in any way. I wish Dear Daughter we could see you that we would have a sorrowful conversation tho a very loving and parental one for we pity you in losing your young husband and your Fathers family as we are fully aware they loved our son John The reason I wrote that letter was for his instructions that he has entered into a married life and how he should use his wife Now Dear Daughter I hope you wont be like the rest of our friends that we have in America that youl not forget to write at every opportunity for you are all that we expect any communication from as the rest send none. But if John had come to Liverpool or Warrenpoint and came to see us we would be far more composed but since I his Father never had the pleasure of seeing him since we parted at Warrenpoint I hope we shall meet where parting is no more I sent a few lines with Samuel Reid about Archy’s children Wm McBrides wife died about the time Saml Sailed in the same complaint. I hope and I am sure Jas Reid if he was convenient he was looking after John our boys always thinks of being in St John yet and if so they will be glad to see you They are all obedient good boys but none was so Quick if anything was the matter with his mother he was the first out of bed. I have no more to say but times is very flat but every thing cheap and the crops looks very well and no bad accounts of the Potatoes as yet the Moravian Minister is digging this 2 weeks and none of them bad So We have no more to say but we all Join in sending our love to your Fathers family at large and remains you ever affectionate Father Mother Sisters Brothers James and Jane Macintosh Dear Margaret I would have paid this but I paid many of them to John and he never got one of them he told his mother in Liverpool he never got a paid letter out of I suppose 20 altho his [alwese] came Widow Margaret MacKintosh Care Samuel McCaver tailor Portland, St. John, N.B. America |
