| Title: | R. Cowan, Co. Down to Margaret [Trimble?], U.S.A. |
|---|---|
| ID | 716 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Cowan, Robert/46 |
| Year | 1856 |
| Sender | Cowan, Robert |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Destination | North America |
| Recipient | Margaret |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | uncle-nice |
| Source | T 3619/2: Deposited by Mrs. M.G. Underwood. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N. Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9802538 |
| Date | 02/05/1856 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, 09:02:98. |
| Word Count | 550 |
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| Transcript | Fofany [Fofannybane?] [Fofannyreagh?] May 2nd /56 [2 May 1856?] Dear Margaret I again take up my pen to address you hoping to find you in good health as this leaves us all in same at present thank God for all his continued Mercies to us poor miserable sinners. Dear Niece I sent [a---?] a letter addressed to you in the beginning of February & four days after it went away the Respectable present of your likeness & a pound of Money was forwarded to me from Belfast by Mr. Wm. [William?] Wier this afforded me a few particulars more than I could have wished to have [---?] and in the letter I feel truly grateful & thankful for your unmerited friendship to me. I can only acct [account?] for your friendship to me in one way & it is this because you loved your Mother & your Mother loved me the object of her love is not forgotten by thee. May the Lord reward you for all that you have done for me, & increase your store ten fold in place of what you have given away. You Aunt Jane & Cousin Eliza & Cousin Margaret Magowan were very glad to see your likeness it caused them to shed a good deal of tears when they first saw it. I think they will preserve it as long as they live to keep them in mind of an absent friend you desired me to send your Sister Mary's age & yours and it escaped my memory till the letter had been sealed. Mary was born in the latter end of December /28 [1828?] which leaves her now to be twenty seven years of age past the same time in Decr /55 [December 1855?] Dear Margaret your birthday was on Easter Sunday in the commencement of /35 [1835?] which leaves you to be twenty one years of age past last Easter Sunday in the commencement of /56 [1856?] The bearer of this letter is your old friends George & Martha Hamilton who is now getting out to America by the singular liberality of Martha's Sister Margaret who within the short space of three years have sent 91 pounds to take her Sister [&?] their families to the land of freedom John Peters's son Wm has sent home ten pounds to take his sweetheart Margaret Wilkison to him, I will not trouble you with much in this letter as I have written to you so lately before. I am going to send letters to you by Waterford lest you should have removed from the place you were into [Keneday?]. I would like to hear from you as often as it would be convenient for you to write, at the farthest I would like to hear from you at the beginning of every new year when you write to me be as explicit as possible in giving me the particulars of your own circumstances & your friends, when you write send me your address that I may know how to send my letters back to you, also mind to write the name of the townland that I live in, direct for me at Hilltown post office by Newry, to the care of the Revd Mr [Lockard?] Hilltown, we all join in sending our love to you & Mary & your Father Dear Margaret I remain as ever your affectionate Uncle Robert Cowan |
