Series 10 - Thomas McIntyre (Sample-Galbraith) letters

86pp

Kerby A. Miller created his transcripts of the McIntyre-Sample-Galbraith Letters from the original manuscripts held in PRONI [reference number T2722].

Materials related to 39 letters written in 1855-1935 between members of the McIntyre, Sample and Galbraith families and held in the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland, with a particular focus on a letter written by Thomas McIntyre. According to Kerby A. Miller, McIntyre was 'a skilled craftsman --a plasterer-- and a Presbyterian.' Miller also states that, 'Robert McIntyre, evidently T. McIntyre's brother, was born in Co. Tyrone in 1827 and immigrated to Boston on 24 April 1846. Occupation, marble worker, at the time of his naturalization in 1882. In the 1870 Boston Directory, a Robert McIntyre, occupation foreman (see T. McIntyre's letter), was living at 17 Haverhill, Boston. In the 1860 Boston Census Index, a Thomas McIntyre was listed as living in the city's Fifth Ward.'
The series contains: Miller's typed transcripts of a number of the letters along with written abstracts for others in the original PRONI collection; an inventory of the letters; census research; photocopied pages from 19th century Boston City Directories; Miller's research notes; a photostatic copy of naturalisation documents for Robert McIntyre; Miller's correspondence with researchers, the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society.