M.M. Rutherford & Co. Tue 10 Aug 97
Grocers, Ironmongers Ballybay
Seedmen, Stationers
Paint, Oil & Color Merchants
Dear Mr McCullagh[1]
I send you 8 years rental and draft to balance please look over the
whole [thi??] and see if it is correct
I dont know when I sent you the last rental You see all [??] Gray[2]
paid since 1888 is £8.17.5 nett. We
strove to make him pay as formerly and spent £2.18.6 in costs but the tenants
got the rents reduced and all the parties suffer the same in future you will
get something after paying the amounts due to Gray the whole property is
awfully mixed When you get this write
at once and I hope to have 1896 rents by then and will forward them as soon as
ever I get them and in future I will send you every year a/c complete in
itself. Please look did I send you a
draft in 1895 I thought I did but cannot lay my hands on the duplicate but you
will know I am sure whether I have entered all I have sent you correctly. Your brother Andrew[3]
died at Slieveroe on 21st July took something on his lungs was about two
weeks sick your brother James[4]
was with him for near a week before he died.
I suppose you know he has sold Derryvalley and Drummuck
sold all out and is living in Lodgings in Warrenpoint still keeps [Annamere]
I am managing it for him. I believe he
has plenty to keep him and he is improved and seems quite content
Andy[5]
made a will left all to the wife[6]
in trust for his children
I hope
you and family are all well Thank God we are all well here
With
kind regards
I remain
Yours sincerely
M M Rutherford[7]
[1] Thomas MCCULLAGH (1854-1920)
[2] GRAY of Ballybay
[3] Andrew Bradford McCullagh (d. July 21, 1897), possibly complications from alcoholism.
[4] James McCULLAGH (d. 1913), brother of Andrew & Thomas.
[5] Andrew Bradford McCullagh
[6] Margaret (Jackson) McCULLAGH. Andrew was her second husband and she was 44 years old at the time of his death and about 5-6 months pregnant with her 10th child
[7] M.M. RUTHERFORD – land manager in Ballybay.