| Description | This collection of 25 documents includes, for example:
Pedigree of the Gass family with notes of emigrants to the United States and Australia, c.1800 onwards. The date of compilation is not noted.
Copy of a letter from Eliza Hixon, Indiana, United States, to her cousin, William, recalling the family's experience of emigrating from Ireland in the 1850s, 29 November 1908.
Copies of 3 letters from James Shannon, Naas, County Kildare, to Miss Gass suggesting that she started a collection for 'getting a new pulpit bible for Cladymore Church...I learned a while there you were one of the most influential', 19 June 1872.
Copy of a letter announcing the dispatch of the new pulpit bible from Dublin and proffering congratulations on the collection, 5 July 1872, and a letter concerning the same, 12 July 1872.
Copy of a letter from John Gass, London to his niece, Miss Mary Gass, Markethill, County Armagh, concerning family affairs, 22 September 1871.
Copy of a letter from Annie Gass, Indiana, United States, to Miss Mary Gass, stating, 'I wish I had come here ten year [sic] ago...there are no beggars here every person can have plenty that is willen [sic] to work. Children are allowed to sit up to the table with there [sic] parents no mater[sic] how small', 8 January 1872.
Copy of a letter from Robert Gass, New South Wales, to his sister, referring to her son who was working in California, 5 April 1896.
Copies of 5 letters from Mrs Edith Gass, California, United States, to her mother in law, Markethill, County Antrim, giving family news and referring to friends, c.1910; referring to the illness and death of her husband, 3 February 1912; referring to the death and burial of her husband, 27 March 1912; stating she does not want to return to Ireland, 25 June 1912 and 10 September 1908.
Copy of a letter from Mrs Edith Gass, California, United States, to Maggie, Markethill, County Antrim, asking for news of home, 15 April 1909.
Copies of 4 letters from William Gass, California, to his mother and father, Markethill, County Antrim, 28 July 1907; 10 September 1908; 10 March 1901and 11 May 1906.
Copy of 2 letters from Mrs E G Mitchell, California, to her mother in law in Ireland, announcing her re-marriage to John Mitchell, giving family news and referring to friends, 14 May 1913 and to the divorce of William Douglas whose wife 'went off with another man', 15 December 1915. |
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