Hi Corsamjz..
Wow..how exciting
.. fantastic we connected!!! Imagine what our ancestors would have thought of this!!!!
Here is a transcription of the letters.. I will email you scans of the originals.. Hopefully we will be able to connect everyone.
I have already ordered the marriage certificate from Groni unfortunately..however last time time took a year to get me Ellens death certificate.. Do you have any other information on the Moores??
cheers
Tabily
Lessize, 7th October 1864
Dear Son and daughter,
Yours dated July 21st came to hand last month but was too late to reply by the mail leaving this last month, I have to thank you kindly for the post office order for the sum of 3pounds we got in your letter, we got it discounted without any trouble, I feel very thankful to you for your kindness, I am still able to move about my health is tolerable thanks to the giver of all good for his mercies to me.
Sarah is well we are living together as formerly, and with the assistance you give us from time to time we get through pretty comfortable.
Robert Carson Jane and children is well their family is getting up fast and is able the most of them to do for themselves. William is a good deal bigger than his father and is a good worker. William Reid Isabella and child is well. Ellen McCrum and husband is well, John Campbell Mrs and family is well. Aunt Jane Moore and family is well, they feel very thankful to you for the information you have given them about James, they have written to him evry month since you sent his adress, I almost forgot to say that Ellen McCrum gave birth to a little girl about a month ago it being her third child two little girls and one boy there was 9 years between her last two births, I was glad to find by yours that each of yours enjoyed good health, it is my prayer and desire that as you's and children grow in years you will also grow in grace. I know that a few more letters at most and then I must cease and part with all near and dear to me on earth, still one thing consoles me to meet with friends whom i hold dear, that we may behold his glory whose face was more marred than any mans and his visage more than the sons of me, when all earthly love will be eclypsed by love to him who first loved us and gave himself for us, for eye hathnot seen ear has not heard what God has prepared for them that love him
Sarah joins with me in best wishes to you and Mrs and children
your mother Ellen Beatty
adres Ellen Beatty Lessize
care of Mrs Morrison Main Street
Rathfriland Co Down Ireland
Letter 2/2 to Isaac Beattie from mother Ellen Beatty
Transcribed from the original by 9 February 2008
Lessize 16th June 1865
Dear Son and daughter
Your letter bearing date 21st March come to hand in due time with the accompanying remittance for the sum of two pounds sterling for which I feel very thankful to you, we were sorry to hear of your little daughter Isabella being ill we hope she is better by this time, I hope this will find yours all well, I may say to you that I continue a little better now than I have been all winter thank God for his goodness to me I might almost say that am spared to a good old age. Sarah is well and joins with me in this Robert Carson Jane and children is well, William Reid Isabella and child is well nothing particular among them they have each got newspapers from you since I wrote last. Aunt Jane Moore and family is well I have to inform you that her daughter Rachel was married on the 17th May to a man called Isaac Bready of Tamery he holds a piece of land and they are pretty comfortable. They got no letter from James by the last mail they got a newspaper they expect a letter from him by this first mail, John Campbell Mrs and family is well, I cannot say that we have anything more to write that would interest you, give our love to James Moore. William intends to write to him in a few days.
We remain your mother and sister Ellen and Sarah Beatty
