| Title: | Mary S. Cranston, Canada to Andrew Lowry, Co. Donegal. |
|---|---|
| ID | 739 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Cranston, Mary S/64 |
| Year | 1898 |
| Sender | Cranston, Mary S. |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | learning the dress-making trade |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Ballindrait, Co. Donegal, Ireland |
| Recipient | Lowry, Andrew |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | niece-uncle |
| Source | T 2018/18: Copied by Permission of Miss K. Lowry, Argrey, Raphoe, Co. Donegal. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8903055 |
| Date | 01/11/1898 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 26:11:1993 |
| Word Count | 358 |
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| Transcript | Mr Andrew Lowry Argrey, Ballindrait Co. Donegal Ireland Tapleytown Nov My dear Uncle I received your kind letter in due course and was very much pleased to hear of you all being in good health and doing well with the exception of the gathering on your brain which I hope is all well by this time, we have had a fine summer here, only a little dry, our crops turned out very well. Well I am in Hamilton now learning the dress-making trade but will be through in a short time, I am learning by a new system called Moodie system Aunt Ann is as well as can be expected the last time we heard Aunt Jane has a little girl, which she is very proud to [own?]. My sister stayed with her about 4 weeks, we have all our seeding in and nearly all the fall ploughing done my mother worked with the threshing machine this fall and made $80 in about one month and a half. I was weighed last friday and I weighed 118 pounds, Uncle I want to know how many Canadian dollars it takes to make a pound, I think if I could afford it, I would come to Ireland next summer if I could get any one to go with me but I wish you and Aunt and Family could come now. I have never seen the sermon you sent yet, mother sent it to my sister in law and had not got it back yet when I got home, thanking you very much for your kindness. I will send you a paper. Aunt Jane called her baby Ellen Ann, we had no apples at all this year it was a great change since last year, well I guess I will have to draw this letter to a close not being home I cannot #PAGE 2 think of any news, leaving all friends well and enjoying good health trusting in him who will keep us through the rough and dreary path I remain your ever loving niece Mary Cranston Tapletown [Tapleytown?] P.S. I forgot to tell you Granny got her foot scalded, but is better again Grandfather is well and all the rest I [remain?] Mary |
