Looking for Dickson's in Annan, Scotland
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Re: Looking for Dickson's in Annan, Scotland
 PaulaDickson76
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Posted: 29 May 2008 9:12PM GMT |
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Brent exciting to hear from you. I was beginning to believe that no one was researching the Dickson's of Annan.
WhatI have is a letter written by Aunt Mary Dickson to Alexander shortly after his marriage in New Brunswick. You will see there is a reference to a Uncle John, who given you information could be John (1792). Is this of any help? or can you give me more information regarding this letter?
Annan, August, 11, 1958
Dear Nephew,
I received you letter and was happy to hear that you were well and had connected yourself with such a respectable family. I trust you will make a good husband as you were a kind nephew to me. And I am very happy to hear that your job will do well. And that you have been so lucky as to have light on Mr. Johston to put you forward.
My dear Sandy, I have got what I wished for in this world, to hear tell of you being provided for, before I left it. I hope now that you and your wife will live happy and comfortable and likewise enjoy good health. That day I received your letter I took very ill and no prospect of me being better. But I feel a want greatly of my dear Sandy. You say you are going to put up a place, for if you had been at home you would both have got a house and furniture.
I had a letter from the factor and he told me that Mr. Graham and his wife were in France. He and his wife and the two youngest is coming to Glasgow in Winter to live
there for four years. James and the other five is in Glasgow. And there is no person at the farm. They are going to remain there till they get their Education.
I sent your Uncle John to tell Rule's Mother and she said she would write him. I don't wish you to have anything to do with Rule any further than just pay him his wages for he robbed this country before he left it.
Dear Sandy I suffer great pain. But the Lord it will be turned. Your friends has all their kind love to you and your wife. My kind love to Mr. Johnstone and his family, likewise to you and your wife.
No more at present, Mary Dickson
It seems that Rule, who Aunt Mary mentions in the letter, was supposed to have received some valuable boxes belonging to Alexander, but he never delivered them. Aunt Mary did not succumb to the illness she mentioned in her letter to Alexander, as she was living on Lady St. in 1861. At the time, she was 73 years old.
WhatI have is a letter written by Aunt Mary Dickson to Alexander shortly after his marriage in New Brunswick. You will see there is a reference to a Uncle John, who given you information could be John (1792). Is this of any help? or can you give me more information regarding this letter?
Annan, August, 11, 1958
Dear Nephew,
I received you letter and was happy to hear that you were well and had connected yourself with such a respectable family. I trust you will make a good husband as you were a kind nephew to me. And I am very happy to hear that your job will do well. And that you have been so lucky as to have light on Mr. Johston to put you forward.
My dear Sandy, I have got what I wished for in this world, to hear tell of you being provided for, before I left it. I hope now that you and your wife will live happy and comfortable and likewise enjoy good health. That day I received your letter I took very ill and no prospect of me being better. But I feel a want greatly of my dear Sandy. You say you are going to put up a place, for if you had been at home you would both have got a house and furniture.
I had a letter from the factor and he told me that Mr. Graham and his wife were in France. He and his wife and the two youngest is coming to Glasgow in Winter to live
there for four years. James and the other five is in Glasgow. And there is no person at the farm. They are going to remain there till they get their Education.
I sent your Uncle John to tell Rule's Mother and she said she would write him. I don't wish you to have anything to do with Rule any further than just pay him his wages for he robbed this country before he left it.
Dear Sandy I suffer great pain. But the Lord it will be turned. Your friends has all their kind love to you and your wife. My kind love to Mr. Johnstone and his family, likewise to you and your wife.
No more at present, Mary Dickson
It seems that Rule, who Aunt Mary mentions in the letter, was supposed to have received some valuable boxes belonging to Alexander, but he never delivered them. Aunt Mary did not succumb to the illness she mentioned in her letter to Alexander, as she was living on Lady St. in 1861. At the time, she was 73 years old.