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ID
File
Collection
Year
Title
Sender
Occupation
Recipient
ID:6739
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1697/8
Title:Letters of Francis Makemie
Sender:Makemie, Francis
Occupation:clergyman
Recipient:Rev. Increase Mather
ID:300
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1750
Title:British Officer, Halifax N.S. to [A Dobbs, Carrickfergus?]
Sender:British Officer
Occupation:army officer
Recipient:Dobbs, Arthur
ID:835
File:4(2)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1752
Title:Arthur Dobbs, [Carrickfergus?], to Lord [Granville?], [Location?].
Sender:Dobbs, Arthur
Occupation:merchant
Recipient:Lord Granville?
ID:5247
File:4
Collection:Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-1757 [T. Truxes]
Year:1756
Title:Cunningham, Waddell to Van Yzendoorn, Herman, 1756
Sender:Cunningham, Waddell
Occupation:merchant
Recipient:Van Yzendoorn, Herman
ID:6604
File:4
Collection:Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan. Letters and memoirs from colonial and revolutionary America (1675-1815) [K.A. Miller et al.]
Year:1758
Title:Lindsey, David to Fleming, Thomas/Andrew, 1758
Sender:Lindsey, David
Occupation:subsistence farmer
Recipient:Fleming, Thomas/Andrew
ID:3432
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1764
Title:S. Wylly, Savannah, to Mrs. H. Mackey.[Ireland?].
Sender:Wylly, Susannah
Occupation:upper middle-class housewife
Recipient:Mackey, Helen
ID:2116
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1771
Title:I. Pemberton, Philadelphia, U.S.A., to [T.Greer?], Co. Tyrone.
Sender:Pemberton, Israel
Occupation:linen trader
Recipient:Greer, Thomas
ID:4893
File:4
Collection:John Forsythe Letters
Year:1783
Title:Forsythe, Jane to Forsythe, John Jr, 1783
Sender:Forsythe, Jane
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Forsythe, John Jr
ID:3890
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1783
Title:Letter Concerning Problems of Emigration.
Sender:unknown
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:350
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1793
Title:Samuel Brown, Donegal, to David Brown, Belfast.
Sender:Brown, Samuel
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Brown, David
ID:1458
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1801
Title:J. Horner, Philadelphia, To Parents, Bovevagh, Co Londonderry.
Sender:Horner, James
Occupation:farm labourer?
Recipient:Horner, Thomas
ID:5593
File:4
Collection:MacArthur Letters
Year:1802
Title:MacArthur, Robert to MacArthur, John, 1802
Sender:MacArthur, Robert
Occupation:distiller
Recipient:MacArthur, John
ID:771
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1811
Title:Mary Cumming, Petersburg, [Va?] to Margaret Craig, Lisburn.
Sender:Cumming (n. Craig), Mary
Occupation:middle class housewife
Recipient:Craig, Margaret
ID:5949
File:4
Collection:The Transatlantic Letters of an Irish Quaker Family_1818-1877 [B. Jackson]
Year:1818
Title:Greeves, Thomas to O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne, 1818
Sender:Greeves, Thomas
Occupation:linen trader
Recipient:O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne
ID:1494
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1821
Title:William Humphrey, S. Carolina to John Humphrey, Co. Antrim.
Sender:Humphrey, William
Occupation:land owner
Recipient:Humphrey, John
ID:4722
File:4
Collection:Revisiting Our Forest Home, The immigrant letters of Frances Stewart [J. L. Aoki]
Year:1822
Title:Stewart, Frances to Edgeworth, Honora, 1822
Sender:Stewart, Frances
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Edgeworth, Honora
ID:3854
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1831
Title:John McLees, NY, to Denis McLees, Ballymoney.
Sender:McLees, John
Occupation:farmer?
Recipient:McLees, Denis
ID:4546
File:4
Collection:Authentic Letters from Upper Canada [Rev. Thomas Radcliff]
Year:1832
Title:From Thomas W. Magrath, Esq., Upper Canada,
Sender:Magrath, Thomas Wm
Occupation:superintendent for settlers
Recipient:Rev. Thomas Radcliff
ID:3600
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1841
Title:[Lord Caledon?], [Canada?], to the Countess of Caledon, England.
Sender:Lord Caledon (James Du Pre Alexander)
Occupation:politician
Recipient:Countess of Caledon
ID:5649
File:4
Collection:The Prendergast Letters. Correspondence from Famine-era Ireland (1840-50) [S. Barber]
Year:1841
Title:4. From James Prendergast to his son Thomas
Sender:Prendergast, James
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Prendergast, Thomas
ID:2488
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1842
Title:James Sloan, Illinois to Andrew McReynolds, Detroit.
Sender:Sloane, James
Occupation:businessman
Recipient:McReynolds, Andrew
ID:91
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1843
Title:Jane Armstrong, Hampshire County, U.S.A., to Mrs Richard Baxter, Ireland
Sender:Armstrong, Sarah B.
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Mrs Richard Baxter
ID:3597
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1844
Title:A.A. Longstreet, Georgia to Isabella Allen, Belfast.
Sender:Longstreet, A.A.
Occupation:upper-middle class housewife
Recipient:Allen, Isabella
ID:1409
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1845
Title:Welford and Eliz. Heather, Canada, to Thomas Greeves, Ireland
Sender:Heather, Welford and Elizabeth
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Greeves, Thomas
ID:455
File:4(1)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1846
Title:John Campbell, Louisiana, U.S.A to Mrs. E. Campbell, Donegal.
Sender:Campbell, John
Occupation:merchant
Recipient:Campbell, E.
ID:2400
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1847
Title:James Scott, Philadelphia to James Smith, Co. Antrim, Ireland
Sender:Scott, James
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Smith, James
ID:3191
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1848
Title:Anne Jane Watters, Temperanceville to Eleanor Anderson, Coagh.
Sender:Watters, Anne Jane
Occupation:housewife
Recipient:Anderson, Eleanor
ID:306
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1849
Title:M Brooks & A Cummins, to James Clark & Rebecca, Co Tyrone.
Sender:Brooks, Matthew & Cumming, A.
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Clark, James & Rebecca
ID:3831
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1850
Title:Thomas McGinity, Pittsburgh, to John McGinity, Ireland
Sender:McGinity, Thomas
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:McGinity, John
ID:3817
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1851
Title:Robert McElderry, Lynchburg Va. to brother Thomas, Ballymoney
Sender:McElderry, Robert
Occupation:businessman (dry goods)
Recipient:McElderry, Thomas
ID:546
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1852
Title:J.Carrothers, London, Ontario to W.Carrothers, Farnaght, Fermanagh
Sender:Carrothers, Joseph
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Carrothers, William
ID:4470
File:4
Collection:The Earth between them: Joseph Beale's letters home to Ireland from Victoria (1852-1853) [E.Beale]
Year:1853
Title:Beale, Joseph Jr to Beale, Sarah, 1853
Sender:Beale, Joseph Jr
Occupation:labourer
Recipient:Beale, Sarah
ID:1156
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1854
Title:John Getty, Co. Antrim to James [Getty?], Australia.
Sender:Getty, John
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Getty, James
ID:564
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1855
Title:John Carse, [Pennsylvania?] to "Brother Robert."
Sender:Carse, John
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Carse, Robert
ID:4242
File:4
Collection:Oceans of Consolation [D. Fitzpatrick]
Year:1855
Title:Normile, Michael Jr to Normile, Michael Sr, 1855
Sender:Normile, Michael Jr
Occupation:storeman, carter
Recipient:Normile, Michael Sr
ID:6369
File:4
Collection:New Brunswick Letters
Year:1857
Title:Smith, Mary Ann to , 1857
Sender:Smith, Mary Ann
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:1011
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1857
Title:American Letter to the Editor of the Armagh Guardian.
Sender:Erin Go Bragh
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:the Editor of the Armagh Guardian
ID:1567
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1858
Title:F. Johnston, America to "Dear Uncle", Irvinestown, Co Fermanagh
Sender:Johnston, F.
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:2121
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1859
Title:Wm Perceval, Amherst Island, to JW Maxwell, Co Waterford
Sender:Perceval, William
Occupation:farmer?
Recipient:Maxwell, J.W.
ID:3047
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1860
Title:William Stavely, U.S. to "dear James".
Sender:Stavely, William J.
Occupation:works at a store
Recipient:Stavely, James
ID:4485
File:4
Collection:The McIlrath Letters: A family history in letters from New Zealand to Ireland (1860-1915) [Bassett, McKee et al.]
Year:1861
Title:McIlrath, James L to McIlrath family, 1861
Sender:McIlrath, James L
Occupation:emigrant
Recipient:McIlrath family
ID:3048
File:4(2)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1861
Title:William Stavely, Pennsylvania, to an unknown addressee
Sender:Stavely, William J.
Occupation:sales supervisor
Recipient:Stavely, James
ID:4029
File:4
Collection:Argentina - Murphy
Year:1862
Title:William Murphy to Martin Murphy, 20 July 1862
Sender:Murphy, William
Occupation:cattle breeder
Recipient:Murphy, Martin
ID:3539
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1862
Title:John Knight, Corinth, [Kentucky?] to his brother & sister.
Sender:Knight, John
Occupation:soldier
Recipient:unknown
ID:4566
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement [C.J. Houston & W.J. Smyth]
Year:1862
Title:Robb, Alexander to a sister, 1862
Sender:Robb, Alexander
Occupation:emigrant
Recipient:a sister
ID:6315
File:4
Collection:Carlow-Coogan Letters
Year:1863
Title:Coogan, Michael (Brother Declan) to Coogan (n. Nolan), Catherine, 1863
Sender:Coogan, Michael (Brother Declan)
Occupation:monk/shoemaker
Recipient:Coogan (n. Nolan), Catherine
ID:2255
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1863
Title:James A Reford, N.J., USA to Miss Frances Reford, Antrim, Ireland.
Sender:Reford, James A.
Occupation:store owner
Recipient:Reford, Frances
ID:1330
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1865
Title:John Hamilton [Williamsburgh?] Near New York, To [Hugh?].
Sender:Hamilton, John
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Hugh
ID:4164
File:4
Collection:Argentina - Pettit
Year:1865
Title:Moore, Sally to Pettit, John, 1865
Sender:Moore, Sally
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Pettit, John
ID:1419
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1867
Title:John Henry, Ill., U.S.A., to "Dear Sister", [Ireland?]
Sender:Henry, John
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:
ID:1149
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1868
Title:John Gass, Attica, Indiana to William Gass, Markethill, Armagh
Sender:Gass, John
Occupation:politician
Recipient:Gass, William
ID:328
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1869
Title:David Brown, Wainfleet, to " Dear Brother"
Sender:Brown, David
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Brown, James
ID:6201
File:4
Collection:Ulster Migration to America. Letters from three Irish Families [R.A. Wells]
Year:1870
Title:Edward Hanlon to Brother Bernard
Sender:Hanlon, Edward
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Hanlon, Bernard
ID:473
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1870
Title:R. Campbell, U.S.A. to W. J. C. Allen, Belfast.
Sender:Campbell, Robert
Occupation:merchant
Recipient:Campbell Allen, William J.
ID:4868
File:4
Collection:Dear Uncle. Immigrant Letters to Antrim from the USA (1843-1852) [R.H. Roy]
Year:1871
Title:Kelly, William to Graham, James, 1871
Sender:Kelly, William
Occupation:ship owner
Recipient:Graham, James
ID:3524
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1872
Title:William Kidd, Salisbury Centre, N.Y. to Eliza Jane McClure, [Co.Antrim?]
Sender:Kidd, William
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:McClure, Eliza Jane
ID:1127
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1873
Title:J. Gamble, San Francisco to "Dear Mother", Co. Down.
Sender:Gamble, James
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:1195
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1874
Title:G. O. Giltenam, U.S.A. to W. J. C. Allen, Belfast.
Sender:Giltenan, G.O.
Occupation:businessman
Recipient:Campbell Allen. William J.
ID:2214
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1875
Title:R. Redmond, New York, to W. Young, County Antrim
Sender:Redmond, Roland
Occupation:merchant
Recipient:Young, William
ID:2451
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1876
Title:Samuel Shaw, Chicago, Illinois, to Mrs Shaw, Ballyfounder, Co Down
Sender:Shaw, Samuel
Occupation:ship business?
Recipient:unknown
ID:506
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1878
Title:Charles Canning, Riverton U.S.A., To "Dear Friend Lizzie", Ireland
Sender:Canning, Charles
Occupation:manual labourer?
Recipient:Lizzie
ID:1606
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1879
Title:W. L. Kennedy, Weldon, Ca., to James Gilmore, Mayfield, Co. Down.
Sender:Kennedy, W.L.
Occupation:businessman
Recipient:Gilmore, James
ID:4191
File:4
Collection:The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride]
Year:1879
Title:Reynolds, Mary to Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann, 1879
Sender:Reynolds, Mary
Occupation:head of household
Recipient:Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann
ID:4354
File:4
Collection:Patrick McMahon Glynn: Letters to his family (1874-1927) [Gerald Glynn O'Collins]
Year:1880
Title:McMahon Glynn, Patrick to McMahon Glynn, John, 1880
Sender:McMahon Glynn, Patrick
Occupation:barrister
Recipient:McMahon Glynn, John
ID:1500
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1880
Title:T & A Hunter, Massachusetts, to Miss L. McSparron, Ireland
Sender:Hunter, T and A
Occupation:housewife
Recipient:McSparron, Lizzie
ID:345
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1886
Title:Rebecca Brown, Ederney, to Miss Isabella Wier
Sender:Brown, Rebecca
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Weir, Isabella
ID:3199
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1887
Title:Bell [Weir?], Michigan. to "Dearest Sister", [?]
Sender:Weir, Isabella (Bell)
Occupation:asylum attendant
Recipient:Weir, Annie
ID:3236
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1888
Title:[?], Edenclaw, to Annie Weir, Michigan
Sender:Weir, Rose
Occupation:farming household
Recipient:Weir, Annie
ID:1548
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1889
Title:Annie Jenkins, Petrolia, Ontario, to Uncle [Kirkpatrick?]
Sender:Jenkins, Annie
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Rev. George Kirkpatrick?
ID:163
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1890
Title:William Bell, Michigan to Annie Weir, Pontiac
Sender:Bell, William
Occupation:day labourer
Recipient:Weir, Anne
ID:2376
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1891
Title:K. Y. Sanders, Illinois to George Macartney, [Gransha?].
Sender:Sanders, K.Y.
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Macartney, George
ID:3201
File:4(2)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1891
Title:Incomplete: [?] California To "Dear Sister"
Sender:Weir, Isabella (Bell)
Occupation:asylum attendant
Recipient:Weir, Annie
ID:2559
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1892
Title:Bella M Smyth, Newtownstewart, to James Alex Smyth, Ontario
Sender:Smyth, Bella Maggie
Occupation:farming household
Recipient:Smyth, James Alexander
ID:942
File:4
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:1339
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1895
Title:W.K. Harshaw, Paterson NJ, to Robert Harshaw, Co Down.
Sender:Harshaw, W.K.
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Harshaw, Robert
ID:2618
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1896
Title:Cassie [Smyth?] Ontario, to B Smyth Co Tyrone
Sender:Smyth, Cassie and William
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Smyth, Bella Maggie
ID:2689
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1897
Title:James A. Smyth, Ontario to Bella M. Smyth. Co. Tyrone
Sender:Smyth, James Alexander
Occupation:school teacher
Recipient:Smyth, Bella M.
ID:693
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1898
Title:J H Cooperwaite, Gateshead, England to Rev A Kirkpatrick
Sender:Cooperwaite, J.H.
Occupation:clergyman
Recipient:Rev. Alexander Kirkpatrick
ID:3116
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1900
Title:Joe Thompson, Philadelphia, to Maggie [Co Londonderry?].
Sender:Thompson, Joseph
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Maggie
ID:3658
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1901
Title:R. MacIlwaine, St Thomas to James Smyth, Ontario
Sender:MacIlwaine, R
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Smyth, James Alexander
ID:6241
File:4
Collection:Your Fondest Annie: Letters from Annie O'Donnel to James P.Phelan [A. O'Donnell]
Year:1901
Title:O'Donnell, Annie to Phelan, James, 1901
Sender:O'Donnell, Annie
Occupation:children's maid
Recipient:Phelan, James
ID:2912
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1903
Title:[Mary?] Smyth, Ontario to Mrs J J Smyth, Co Tyrone
Sender:Smyth, Mary
Occupation:student
Recipient:
ID:2631
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1904
Title:Eliza Smyth, Castledamph, to J. A. Smyth, Ontario.
Sender:Smyth, Eliza Catherine
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Smyth, James Alexander
ID:2690
File:4(2)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1905
Title:James A. Smyth, Ontario to Mary Smyth, Castledampph
Sender:Smyth, James Alexander
Occupation:school teacher
Recipient:Smyth, Mary
ID:2832
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1906
Title:Postcard: J C Smyth, New York to James A Smyth, Ontario
Sender:Smyth, John Charles
Occupation:carpenter
Recipient:Smyth, James Alexander
ID:1553
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1907
Title:John [?], Washington DC, to His Mother.
Sender:John
Occupation:civil servant
Recipient:
ID:2191
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1908
Title:Denis Rafferty, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to J Peel, Armagh
Sender:Rafferty, Denis
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Peel, Joshua
ID:3001
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1909
Title:[N.B. Smyth ?] [New Orleans ?] To [Dr A.Smyth ?] [Donemana?]
Sender:Bouligny Smyth, Nathalie
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Smyth, Andrew Wood
ID:3249
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1913
Title:William Weir, Co Monaghan, to "Dear Jonny"
Sender:Weir, William
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Weir, Jonny
ID:1591
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1923
Title:Henry Kells, Canada to George Kells, Ireland
Sender:Kells, Henry
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Kells, George
ID:3764
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1933
Title:Emma McClintock, U.S.A., to "Dear Bertie"
Sender:McClintock, Emma
Occupation:upper middle-class socialite
Recipient:Bertie
ID:454
File:4
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:unknown
Title:John Campbell, [?], to J. Hanbury, [?].
Sender:Campbell, John
Occupation:merchant
Recipient:Hanbury, John