| Title: | E. Cochrane, Canada to K. Finlay, Co. Down |
|---|---|
| ID | 655 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Cochrane, Ernest/40 |
| Year | 1896 |
| Sender | Cochrane, Ernest |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | provost sergeant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Calgary, Canada |
| Destination | Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Finlay, Kate |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | uncle-niece? |
| Source | T 3504/1/11: Copied by Courtesy of Mr. A.D. Finlay. |
| Archive | Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9103146 |
| Date | 25/12/1896 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Action By Date Document added by S.K., 21:01:1994. |
| Word Count | 1012 |
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| Transcript | To: Katie [Finlay?] [Wellesdon, Holywood?] [County Down?] [Ireland?] From: Ernest Cochrane Calgary N.W.T. [North West Territories?] Canada Xmas day 96 [1896?] My dear Katie You must think me very ungrateful in not answering your more than kind letter: but listen to the following I was brought to Hospital the day before your letter came with a broken Knee & my side injured. I lay there over 3 months & when I got out could only hobble round. Thus I was transferred to this Troop. It seems the Troops had gone to the bad owing to a careless officer A Sergt. [Sergeant?] & some constables got imprisonment & a lot transferred 1 & [or?] 2 others were sent up to straighten things out. The Commissioner before sending me, sent for me & paid me the compliment of Telling me, that he believed I would imprison my own brother if I had one!! So much for being a crank! Its hard up here as the men resent a stranger being sent, but I will pull through all right. This place is about 400 miles west of Regina. I was stationed here for 10 months in 1889. And I see a great change in the place. The Town larger & new barracks built My Knee is nearly all right now & I hope I #PAGE 2 will be free from accidents for a while. I am Provost Sergeant here. I have much better quarters than in Regina. When in Hospital reading your letter was a great comfort & I used to have a look at it two or three times a day. Thank you very much for the enclosures No, you have not increased my Sorrow. Time is a wonderful healer: but I often think of her. Isabell, my sister I am a long way off the Stevensons now and dear Knows when I will see them again They gave up hope of saving my leg for about 6 weeks & were going to discharge me as "unfit for service" but I pulled through & re-enlisted for another 3 years. If I had not you to think of & your letter to read during that Time, I dont Know what I would have done So you see little woman how much |
