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ID
File
Collection
Year
Title
Sender
Occupation
Recipient
ID:6608
File:12
Collection:Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan. Letters and memoirs from colonial and revolutionary America (1675-1815) [K.A. Miller et al.]
Year:1725
Title:Parke, Robert to Valentine, Mary and Thomas, 1725
Sender:Parke, Robert
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Valentine, Mary and Thomas
ID:5255
File:12
Collection:Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-1757 [T. Truxes]
Year:1756
Title:Cunningham, Waddell to Porter & Mierop, 1756
Sender:Cunningham, Waddell
Occupation:merchant
Recipient:Porter & Mierop
ID:143
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1760
Title:Charles Beatty's Appeal, viz. Distressed Presbyterians in America
Sender:Beatty, Charles
Occupation:clergyman
Recipient:unknown
ID:629
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1768
Title:The Province of New York
Sender:Clark, Thomas
Occupation:minister
Recipient:unknown
ID:1229
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1784
Title:R. Greaves, Philadelphia, To Thomas Greer, Dungannon [Ireland].
Sender:Greaves, Robert
Occupation:merchant
Recipient:Greer, Thomas
ID:3909
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1795
Title:Extract of a Letter from Philadelphia.
Sender:unknown
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:4901
File:12
Collection:John Forsythe Letters
Year:1801
Title:Comly, John to Forsythe, John Jr, 1801
Sender:Comly, John
Occupation:schoolmaster
Recipient:Forsythe, John Jr
ID:430
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1802
Title:John Caldwell, New York to Robert Simms, Belfast.
Sender:Caldwell, John Jr.
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Simms, Robert
ID:1437
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1812
Title:John Hilton, Albany, New York, to Parents, Dullaghy, Garvagh.
Sender:Hilton, John
Occupation:employed at an iron monger's
Recipient:Hilton, William and wife
ID:5961
File:12
Collection:The Transatlantic Letters of an Irish Quaker Family_1818-1877 [B. Jackson]
Year:1819
Title:Greeves (n. Sinton), Margaret to O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne, 1819
Sender:Greeves (n. Sinton), Margaret
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne
ID:8
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1821
Title:Jane Agnew, New York, To William Stavely, Co. Antrim.
Sender:Agnew, Jane (n. McLeod)
Occupation:housewife
Recipient:Stavely, William
ID:4730
File:12
Collection:Revisiting Our Forest Home, The immigrant letters of Frances Stewart [J. L. Aoki]
Year:1823
Title:Stewart, Frances to Noble, Maria, 1823
Sender:Stewart, Frances
Occupation:housewife
Recipient:Noble, Maria
ID:278
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1832
Title:Sampson Brady, Montreal, Canada to Fanny Reford, Co Antrim, Ireland
Sender:Brady, Sampson
Occupation:mentions carrying on with his trade, unclear of which kind
Recipient:Reford, Fanny
ID:4554
File:12
Collection:Authentic Letters from Upper Canada [Rev. Thomas Radcliff]
Year:1833
Title:From Thomas Radcliff, Esq., Upper Canada, so the Rev. Thomas Radcliff, Dublin.
Sender:Radcliff, Thomas
Occupation:soldier
Recipient:Rev. Thomas Radcliff
ID:1682
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1841
Title:Alexander McCoy, Pennsylvania, to Alexander McCoy, Liverpool
Sender:McCoy, Alexander
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:McCoy, Alexander
ID:3338
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1841*
Title:William Wightman, New York to Mr McNeilly, [Ireland?].
Sender:Wightman, William Jr.
Occupation:recently arrived in the USA
Recipient:McNeilly, D.W.
ID:5657
File:12
Collection:The Prendergast Letters. Correspondence from Famine-era Ireland (1840-50) [S. Barber]
Year:1843
Title:12. From James Prendergast to his son Thomas
Sender:Prendergast, James
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Prendergast, Thomas
ID:3949
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1843
Title:Letter from an Irish Emigrant to his brother in Magherafelt.
Sender:unknown
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:1055
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1844
Title:Patrick Fitzgerald, New York, to Michael Cahill, Quebec
Sender:Fitzgerald, Patrick
Occupation:mentions being employed
Recipient:Cahill, Michael
ID:3332
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1845
Title:Nancy Wightman, Oakland to John Arnold, Belfast.
Sender:Wightman, Nancy
Occupation:Sunday school teacher
Recipient:Arnold, John
ID:3841
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1847
Title:John McIntyre, Philadelphia, to James Smith, Moycraig Co. Antrim
Sender:McIntyre, John
Occupation:solicitor?
Recipient:Smith, James
ID:849
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1849
Title:A letter from Mr. John Donnan, Delaware, America to Mr. Hugh Donnan,
Sender:Donnan, John
Occupation:farm employee (ploughs, looks after cattle)
Recipient:Donnan, Hugh & wife
ID:1947
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1850
Title:Henry and Kate Neill, Kentucky to Samuel Neill, Co. Down
Sender:Neill, Kate
Occupation:housewife
Recipient:Neill, Samuel
ID:1240
File:12(2)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1852
Title:Andrew Greenlees, Platsburgh, [USA?], to "My dear brother"
Sender:Greenlees, Andrew
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Greenlees, John
ID:576
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1853
Title:Thomas Carse, Buffalo, to "Dear Brother."
Sender:Carse, Thomas
Occupation:shipping clerk for a railway company
Recipient:Carse, John / his parents
ID:4478
File:12
Collection:The Earth between them: Joseph Beale's letters home to Ireland from Victoria (1852-1853) [E.Beale]
Year:1853
Title:Beale, Joseph Sr to Beale, Margaret, 1853
Sender:Beale, Joseph Sr
Occupation:clerk
Recipient:Beale, Margaret
ID:1777
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1854
Title:John Mitchel, New York, U.S.A., To Miss Thomson, [Dublin?].
Sender:Mitchel, John
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Miss Thomson
ID:2154
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1855
Title:W. Porter, Chicago to His Brother, Co. Down
Sender:Porter, William
Occupation:builder/farmer
Recipient:Porter, Robert L.
ID:1715
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1857
Title:A McFeeters, New York, To Joseph Searight, Philadelphia
Sender:McFeeters, Andrew
Occupation:businessman
Recipient:Searight, Joseph
ID:3966
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1858
Title:Emigration to Canada
Sender:unknown
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:3255
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1860
Title:W.G. Weir, New York, to His Father, Banbridge, Co.Down
Sender:Weir, William George
Occupation:works at linen trading company
Recipient:unknown
ID:1731
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1861
Title:Robert and Eleanor McKelvey, U.S.A. to Thomas Lewers, Belfast.
Sender:McKelvey, Robert and Eleanor
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Mrs Thomas Lewers and family
ID:4493
File:12
Collection:The McIlrath Letters: A family history in letters from New Zealand to Ireland (1860-1915) [Bassett, McKee et al.]
Year:1863
Title:McIlrath, Hamilton to McIlrath, William, 1863
Sender:McIlrath, Hamilton
Occupation:cattle driver
Recipient:McIlrath, William
ID:3984
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1863
Title:A List of Killed & Wounded in the Irish Brigade.
Sender:unknown
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:4250
File:12
Collection:Oceans of Consolation [D. Fitzpatrick]
Year:1863
Title:Normile, Michael Jr to Normile, Michael Sr, 1863
Sender:Normile, Michael Jr
Occupation:storeman, carter
Recipient:Normile, Michael Sr
ID:4037
File:12
Collection:Argentina - Murphy
Year:1863
Title:J. Kennedy to Martin Murphy, 24 December 1863
Sender:Kennedy, J
Occupation:bank clerk
Recipient:Murphy, Martin
ID:1241
File:12(3)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1864
Title:Andrew [Greenlees?] [Ottawa?], [USA?] to "Dear Brother"
Sender:Greenlees, Andrew
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Greenlees, John
ID:3545
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1865
Title:Sergeant Major John Laird, Potomac, to Family
Sender:Sergeant Major John Laird
Occupation:army officer
Recipient:unknown
ID:6323
File:12
Collection:Carlow-Coogan Letters
Year:1866
Title:Coogan, Michael (Brother Declan) to Coogan, William, 1866
Sender:Coogan, Michael (Brother Declan)
Occupation:monk/shoemaker
Recipient:Coogan, William
ID:4172
File:12
Collection:Argentina - Pettit
Year:1867
Title:Murphy, Kate A to Pettit, John, 1867
Sender:Murphy, Kate A
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Pettit, John
ID:1617
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1867
Title:Rev F Kirkpatrick, Canada, to Rev A Kirkpatrick, Co Antrim
Sender:Kirkpatrick, Francis William
Occupation:clerk in Holy Orders
Recipient:Rev Alexander Kirkpatrick
ID:298
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1869
Title:Mrs M. Briggs, Illinois to G. Kirkpatrick, Ballymena
Sender:Briggs (n. Kinnear), Margaret J.
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Rev George Kirkpatrick
ID:1674
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1870
Title:Archibald & Mary McClure, Michigan, to Eliza Jane McClure, Derryhollagh.
Sender:McClure, Archibald and Mary
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:McClure, Eliza Jane
ID:1664
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1871
Title:William McCarter, New York to George McCarter, Strabane.
Sender:McCarter, William
Occupation:wants to set up a shop
Recipient:McCarter, George
ID:1199
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1873
Title:G. O. Giltenan, U.S.A. to W. J. C. Allen, Belfast.
Sender:Giltenan, G.O.
Occupation:businessman
Recipient:Campbell Allen. William J.
ID:1239
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1874
Title:Andrew Greenlees, Ellenwood [Kansas?] to his Brother.
Sender:Greenlees, Andrew
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Greenlees, John
ID:4000
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1875
Title:Description of the Potowmack [Potomac?] River [U.S.]
Sender:unknown
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:6209
File:12
Collection:Ulster Migration to America. Letters from three Irish Families [R.A. Wells]
Year:1876
Title:Pittsburgh
Sender:Hanlon, Edward J
Occupation:store keeper
Recipient:his parents
ID:2176
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1876
Title:Arthur Quin, Barrytown, U.S.A., to his Brother and Sister.
Sender:Quin, Arthur
Occupation:labourer
Recipient:
ID:3736
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1878
Title:M McAuley, Chicago re death of Christopher Nixon, Fermanagh.
Sender:McAuley, M.
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Editor of the The Fermanagh Reporter
ID:285
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1879
Title:C. K. Breeze, San Francisco to his niece, Martha.
Sender:Breeze, C.K.
Occupation:provision businessman
Recipient:Breeze, Martha
ID:4362
File:12
Collection:Patrick McMahon Glynn: Letters to his family (1874-1927) [Gerald Glynn O'Collins]
Year:1880
Title:McMahon Glynn, Patrick to Glynn, Ellen, 1880
Sender:McMahon Glynn, Patrick
Occupation:unemployed
Recipient:Glynn, Ellen
ID:21
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1880
Title:R. J. [Alexander?], California to Brother, [Larrycormick?].
Sender:Alexander, Robert J.
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Alexander, David?
ID:4199
File:12
Collection:The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride]
Year:1881
Title:Reynolds, Mary to Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann, 1881
Sender:Reynolds, Mary
Occupation:head of household
Recipient:Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann
ID:2209
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1882
Title:G H Redmond, New York, to Wm Young [ Ballymena?]
Sender:Redmond, G.H.
Occupation:businessman
Recipient:Young, William
ID:3651
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1886
Title:Lizzie Lucas, Michigan to "Dear Cousin Isabella"
Sender:Lucas, Lizzie
Occupation:seamstress
Recipient:Weir, Bella
ID:731
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1887
Title:Mrs Ann Walker, Canada to Andrew Lowry, Co. Donegal.
Sender:Cranston, Martha Blair
Occupation:housewife
Recipient:Lowry, Andrew
ID:3753
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1888
Title:E. & [Mary?] McCann, [America?] to their sister & brother.
Sender:McCann, E and [Mary?]
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:3205
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1889
Title:Isabella Weir, Pontiac to "Dear Sister"
Sender:Weir, Isabella (Bell)
Occupation:asylum attendant
Recipient:Weir, Annie
ID:986
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1890
Title:J.J. Elder, New Brunswick, Canada, to J. Caldwell, Belfast.
Sender:Elder, John
Occupation:accountant
Recipient:Caldwell, J.
ID:1909
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1891
Title:[-McClean?], Detroit to "Miss Weir."
Sender:Mrs McClean
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Weir, Isabella
ID:911
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1892
Title:Lizzie Duncan, Omagh to James A Smyth, Ontario
Sender:Duncan, Lizzie
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Smyth, James Alexander
ID:945
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1893
Title:Earl of Ava, [Mexico?] to the Marchioness of Dufferin & Ava
Sender:Archibald, Earl of Ava
Occupation:army officer
Recipient:Hariot, Marchioness of Dufferin & Ava
ID:944
File:12(2)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1894
Title:Earl of Ava to his Mother Marchioness of Dufferin & Ava
Sender:Archibald, Earl of Ava
Occupation:army officer
Recipient:Hariot, Marchioness of Dufferin & Ava
ID:3532
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1895
Title:Patric [Patrick?] Kirk, Kansas, to J. Peel, Armagh.
Sender:Kirk, Patrick
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Peel, Joshua
ID:2709
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1896
Title:James A Smyth, Ontario, to Mary Smyth, Co Tyrone.
Sender:Smyth, James Alexander
Occupation:student
Recipient:Smyth, Mary
ID:1776
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1898
Title:Miss Small, California, to Annie Weir
Sender:Miss Small
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Weir, Annie
ID:2710
File:12(2)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1899
Title:J A Smyth,Ontario to Dear Parents , Co Tyrone
Sender:Smyth, James Alexander
Occupation:student
Recipient:Smyth, John J. and wife
ID:6377
File:12
Collection:New Brunswick Letters
Year:1899
Title:Seymour, William to Seymour, Lydia, 1899
Sender:Seymour, William
Occupation:policeman
Recipient:Seymour, Lydia
ID:2711
File:12(3)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1900
Title:James A. Smyth, Ontario to John J. Smyth, Castledamph
Sender:Smyth, James Alexander
Occupation:school teacher
Recipient:Smyth, John J. and wife
ID:2379
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1901
Title:E. Savage, Brooklyn to Prof. G.F. Savage Armstrong, Ireland.
Sender:Savage, Edmund
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Armstrong, G.F.
ID:6249
File:12
Collection:Your Fondest Annie: Letters from Annie O'Donnel to James P.Phelan [A. O'Donnell]
Year:1902
Title:O'Donnell, Annie to Phelan, James, 1902
Sender:O'Donnell, Annie
Occupation:children's maid
Recipient:Phelan, James
ID:6731
File:12B
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1903
Title:Mary Smyth, Ontario to E C Smyth, Plumbridge
Sender:Smyth, Mary
Occupation:student
Recipient:Smyth, Eliza C.
ID:2924
File:12A
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1903
Title:Mary Smyth, Ontario to E C Smyth, Plumbridge
Sender:Smyth, Mary
Occupation:student
Recipient:Smyth, Eliza C.
ID:2852
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1904
Title:John J Smyth, Castledamph to James Smyth, Ontario
Sender:Smyth, John James
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Smyth, James Alexander
ID:2555
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1906
Title:A. W. Smyth, Dunnamanagh to Miss Arthe Smyth, England.
Sender:Smyth, Andrew Wood
Occupation:surgeon
Recipient:Smyth, Arthe
ID:541
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1907
Title:[Thomas?] F. Carman, New York, to Mary Cahill Nolan, Missouri.
Sender:Carman, Thomas F.
Occupation:store keeper
Recipient:Cahill Nolan, Mary
ID:1446
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1908
Title:Eliza C. Hisson, Indiana to her cousin, William, [Ireland?].
Sender:Hisson, Eliza C.
Occupation:housewife
Recipient:William
ID:2834
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1909
Title:John C. Smyth, Staten Island,USA to James A. Smyth, Ontario
Sender:Smyth, John Charles
Occupation:carpenter
Recipient:Smyth, James Alexander
ID:1170
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1911
Title:Tilda [?], Castledamph to "Dear Cousin"
Sender:Gilkinson, Matilda
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Smyth, James Alexander
ID:3769
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1935
Title:Emma McClintock, U.S.A., to "My dear Sir".
Sender:McClintock, Emma
Occupation:upper middle-class socialite
Recipient:unknown
ID:2373
File:12
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:197
Title:[?] Sample, Brooklyn to Ellen McIntyre, Co. Tyrone.
Sender:Mrs James Sample
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:McIntyre, Ellen