| Title: | John J Smyth, Castledamph to James A. Smyth, Ontario |
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| ID | 6722 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smyth, Bella Maggie/58B |
| Year | 1896 |
| Sender | Smyth, Bella Maggie |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | farming household |
| Sender Religion | Protestant (Presbyterian) |
| Origin | Castledamph, Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Essex Co., Ontario, Canada |
| Recipient | Smyth, James Alexander |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge, Co Tyrone, Castledamph@btinternet.com |
| Archive | Mr & Mrs J Smyth |
| Doc. No. | 604179 |
| Date | 17/07/1896 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | |
| Word Count | 420 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | [Letter 2] [Page 1] Castledamph July 17th 1896 Dear Brother In answer to your last letter which we received the morning after the twelfth we are glad to hear that you are getting on so well, you will have a long time vacation now Im [I’m?] sure you will feel lonely but you should take a trip some road and pass the time I think father has gave [given?] you enough news about the twelfth without me giving any They had a good day [page 2] all through, and they are all well pleased and does [sic] not rue their journey. We see in the papers that the Strabane men did not get home safe, the [there?] were about the half of them come [sic] in the train along with these ones [sic] and the others had to wait till next train: so all the roughs about Strabane was gathered ready for them and only for the police there would [sic] been lives lost there are some badly injured, We have, pretty good weather here this last few days, we have put in the upland hay today there is not much to be seen out now we have not got [page 3] many turf [sic] home yet but I suppose they will draw some from this on. they have got the gravel all out and a good share of the stones broken, They were all in the fair yesterday but John, the [they?] had cattle down but the [they?] did not sell, William Eliza and me [is?] [sic] going to Omagh to-morrow Lizzie Ann and Bella Maggie is home so they told them on the twelfth for us to go up tomorrow they have only three weeks to stay I think they are doing very well since they went away better than at home anyway [page 4] The Miss Dunbars is getting along well Beck was at Bundoran for two weeks and Mary was alone only one of the Miss Campbells slept with her she had no school on the twelfth nor neither had Miss Dunne Willie John is doing well so long as you stay away but he thinks you have nothing to do with this house he says you were not born here he goes home two or three times a week but not [sic] stay after night [sic] he always comes back in the evening, we are sending you a paper to-day that we got from James Houston, Your Sister Bella M Smyth [written upside down across top of pages 2-3] if you have nothing to do in your vacation you might write some letters to people you promised |
