| Title: | J.G. Cupples, Boston, to Miss Cupples, Loughbrickland |
|---|---|
| ID | 813 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Cupples, J. G/90 |
| Year | 1899 |
| Sender | Cupples, J.G. |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Boston, Mass., USA |
| Destination | Loughbrickland, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Miss Cupples |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | might be loosely related |
| Source | T 1476: Copied by Permission of Mrs. H.M. Gilmore, Belfast |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9507152 |
| Date | 15/02/1899 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 24:07:1995. |
| Word Count | 445 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Longwood, Boston, Massachusetts, February 15, 1899. Dear Madam, I am putting together stray matter concerning my surname, a somewhat scarce name which you enjoy as well as myself. A knowledge of you came to me through writing to Mr Alexr [Alexander?] Cupples of Chicago when in 1896 attracted by seeing his name printed in the Directory of that city. May I ask if you would kindly send me some kind of pedigree of your immediate ancestry, i.e., a simple one wich would not put you to trouble, embracing as far as possible dates of births & deaths with occupations? I have no knowledge of any of your Brickloughland [Loughbrickland ?] Cupples beyond your uncle, Mr James Cupples, and the above Mr Alexr [Alexander?] Cupples's allusion to the fact that your father was Mr Willian Cupples. The most widely known Cupples in America is Mr Samuel Cupples of St. Louis who once told me of his parents having come from Brickloughland [Loughbrickland?], and that its old parish church, wherein they were married, has an ancient burying ground where lie many of our name. Could you put me in the way of getting a list of inscriptions found today on the stones belonging to the name, especially the ancient ones? I presume such a church, like the old ones here, would have an index revealing the names of those buried within its precincts. My Ulster list of the surname so far gathered by me contains only these past names:- Rev. [Reverend?] Saml [Samuel?] Cupples, 1740-1835, Rector of Lisburn Cathedral. Reverend Edward Cupples, son of above, 1785-1853, Rector General, Diocese of Down. Reverend Thomas Cupples, brother of above, 1788-1853, Rector of Ballyrashine [Ballyrashane?]. Dr. Thomas Cupples of Newry, died 1801, brother of above Rev. [Reverend?] S. Cuppes Lieut. [Lieutenant?] Wm. [William?] Cupples, 1784-1833, son of above. Dr. Chs. [Charles?] Cupples, 1786- of Lisburn. This branch are from Mullahead where it touches some 200 or more years ago with the original Cuppleses of Lancashire, long seated at Ogual Hall in the village of Coppul. My branch, Scottish, comes down from a Rev. [Reverend?] Wm. [William?] Cupples of Kirkoswald, Ayrshire, born in Ulster in 1688. This line once of goodly number has no other representative than myself, my uncle George Cupples of Edinburgh, the novelist, having died issueless in 1891. The Mullahead branch is extinct but represented by a Miss Corken of Ingram, Lisburn, an aged lady, granddaughter of Rev. Samuel Cupples. Any traditions that may be in your possession respecting the name I should be very glad to secure & in return will gladly send you some of mine. I hope you will give me the pleasure of hearing from you. Yours very truly J.G.Cupples. |
