Letter from Mabel (Mrs. Waveland S. FitzSimons) to Amy, Feb. 20, 1960 (page 1)
Book 1, Page 14 ·1782–1960
Transcription
A handwritten letter, page 1 of multiple, on personal letterhead reading Mrs. Waveland S. FitzSimons / 1/2 Tradd Street / Charleston, S. C. Written in blue ink in a cursive hand. A pencilled annotation runs vertically along the left margin.
[Pencilled annotation along the left margin]: * Paul FitzSimons’ daughter Mary Ann mar. J. Motte Alston. died April 8, 1866. aged 30th ∴ born J. 1830.
February 20, 1960
Dear Amy:—
I have been working on your line and am wondering if I am doing what you want me to do. I have made a trial chart, you know one has to do that at first then when mistakes are found they can be easily corrected. According to the Will of the first Christopher, he had no children in fact appears never to have married. He mentions his brothers Cashel & William & a sister who married James Handlin of Ireland. His will is dated September 23, 1782. He also mentions Mary — Ann — & his nephew Christopher children of Cashel. It seems that it is this Christopher married Catherine Pritchard dau. of Paul Pritchard August 3, 1788.
They had (1) Col. Paul Fitz Simons who married Ellenor Nesbit White of Augusta, Ga.
AI Notes
Page 1 of a multi-page handwritten letter from Mabel (Mrs. Waveland S. FitzSimons) of 1/2 Tradd Street, Charleston, S.C., to Amy, dated February 20, 1960. Mabel reports work on Amy’s family chart, citing the will of the first Christopher FitzSimons (the emigrant’s uncle, dated September 23, 1782). A pencilled annotation runs vertically up the left margin. Letter continues onto subsequent pages. The first Christopher (the emigrant’s bachelor uncle) in his Sept. 23, 1782 will mentions his brothers Cashel & William, a sister married to James Handlin of Ireland, and his nephew/niece-children of Cashel (Mary, Ann, and Christopher) — establishing the family genealogy line. The left-margin pencilled note records that Paul FitzSimons’s daughter Mary Ann married J. Motte Alston, with Mary Ann’s lifespan given as ‘died April 8, 1866. aged 30th ∴ born J. 1830.’ — the ‘aged 30th’ figure conflicts with the 1830→1866 arithmetic (which gives 36) and is likely a slip on Mabel’s part; the source reading is preserved verbatim.
Letter continues on next page.
Mabel FitzSimons (Mrs. Waveland S. FitzSimons), a Charleston-based cousin at 1/2 Tradd Street, has taken on Amy’s family-tree project in 1960 — the same correspondence stream that produced the envelope on page 022. The “first Christopher” she names from the 1782 will is the emigrant’s bachelor uncle, identified in Charleston probate Will Book A, p. 166 as a tallow chandler & soap boiler; he left his property to his Dundalk nephew Christopher (the future emigrant) and to nieces Mary and Ann.