| Title: | Peter Doran, Ballintur, [Co Down?] to " Dear Brother" |
|---|---|
| ID | 856 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Doran, Peter/42 |
| Year | 1888 |
| Sender | Doran, Peter |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Ballintur, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | Document Presented by & Copyright Retained by Sharon DoranTurnbow, 6321 Roosevelt St., Coloma M1 49038 616 849 0240.Sharon@parrett.net or info@sandcastlescottages.com |
| Archive | Centre for Migration Studies |
| Doc. No. | 107160 |
| Date | 28/12/1888 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, Td by Tony Flanagan, 26:07:0 |
| Word Count | 326 |
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| Transcript | Ballintur, [Co Down?] Dec 28th 1888 Dear Brother I write you these few lines hoping to find you enjoying good health as this leaves us all enjoying the same Thanks be to god I sold the pigs in the point fair at 6 pounds 15s [shillings?] i [I?] had them in Rostrever [Rostrevor?] i [I?] was offered 7 pounds in it and I would not take it i [I?] paid the rent and bought two young ones at 1 pound 12s [shillings?] I paid the poorrates [Poor Rates?] and i [I?] sold Magee and John Rourke 10 hundred of straw at 2 shillings per hundred i [I?] think there will be another load we sold no potatoes yet there is a sloop aloadining [loading?] at the quay the [they?] are giving 1s [shilling?] and 9 pence In Newry the whites are 1s [shilling?] and 10 and the blues are 2s [shillings?] and 5 pence Bridget and the children are all well Willy is a good boy he is on the altar every Sunday Cathrine stoped [stopped?] with Bridget too [two?] weeks after you left and one of them goes every Saterday [Saturday?] to let her to chaple [chapel?] Tom Murphy and Matheu [Matthew?] Sloan is home from cleveland [Ohio?] a few days agow [ago?] Joe Write [Wright?] and Cate [Kate?] Fearon has got married about a week after you left Maria Kielty died on Sunday verry [very?] suddenly she was got dead in her bead [bed?] about noon and she was berried [buried?] on Christmas day i [I?] here [hear?] the fairs around here is to be stoped [stopped?] for a few months on account of a desase [disease?] amongest [amongst?] the cattle we have fine weather we had no snow or frost yet Alicia Sloan is gone back to Liverpool She is a little bit better we all join in sending our kind love to you No more at this time from your loving brother Peter Doran remember me to William (Transcriber's Note:- " stopped with" means " went to live with" Pound (£), shilling (s), and pence (d) was the currency in use in Great Britain and Ireland when this letter was written. It was changed to Pound (£), and pence (p) following decimalisation in Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1973.) (Transcribed by Tony Flanagan.) |
