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- 1851-1855 (Creation)
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Kerby A. Miller created his transcripts of the McFarland family letters from the original manuscripts held in PRONI [reference number D1665/3].
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Kerby A. Miller’s original transcripts of the McFarland family letters.
Per Miller: 'Catherine Ann McFarland left Londonderry in the ship Mohango, (captained by Capt. Raymond Corrish) arriving in Philadelphia on June 21, 1853, with two trunks as baggage,' and that she 'was born October 18, 1828, probably in Derry. She had two brothers, John and David, (born between 1826 and 1831). David was apparently still alive in 1855 but John had died shortly before she wrote the first letter to her mother. It is possible that John and David had gone to sea.' McFarland eventually settled in Philadelphia and married Hugh Hutchinson from Moneymore, County Derry who had himself emigrated in 1834. She died in 1920 at 92 years of age.
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The reference copies of the McFarland letters, along with Kerby A. Miller’s research on the family, are located in P155/43/2.