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Hugh and Elizabeth Barkley, Killycogan, Portglenone, County Antrim, to his sister and her husband, Adam and Ann Stewart, Emsley [Elmsley] Township, Leeds County, Smoths Falls, Upper Canada, 20 August 1846
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Collection Barkley Letter
Title Hugh and Elizabeth Barkley, Killycogan, Portglenone, County Antrim, to his sister and her husband, Adam and Ann Stewart, Emsley [Elmsley] Township, Leeds County, Smoths Falls, Upper Canada, 20 August 1846
Description [Letter text incomplete. It is uncertain whether this is an extract from a letter or the only surviving text from the original manuscript]. Author relates that they lost both their early and late potato crops to blight disease in July. He sees that by November there will be no bread or seed potatoes to be had. While people were claiming cures and explanations for the blight he was consigned to the sure fact that the disease and thus impending famine was from an angry God. [Kerby Miller notes that the recipients had emigrated to Canada in 1834 and rented a 200-acre farm. Both familes were Presbyterian and Tory].
Date 20/08/1846
Date Issued 27/03/2023
Resource Type Text
Archival Record Id p155/66/15
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 1p
Topic Barkley Letter
Geographic Killycoogan (townland),Antrim (county),Ireland,Drummond/North Elmsley,Lanark (county),Ontario,Canada
Temporal Nineteenth century,Eighteen forties
Genre Transcript
Note Title and transcript text by PRONI. Description by University of Galway.
Creator / Author Name Hugh Barkley,Elizabeth Barkley