Envelope from M. T. FitzSimons (Charleston) to Mrs. Walker, March 16, 1960; with typescript page 3 of Kit FitzSimons's record
Book 1, Page 22 ·1780–1960
Transcription
The page holds two items: an addressed envelope at the top, and a typewritten sheet below.
Envelope
A stamped envelope, postmarked CHARLESTON, S.C. / MAR 16 / 7 PM / 1960, bearing a 4-cent purple U.S. Postage stamp. The sender’s address is handwritten in ink at the upper left:
Mrs. T. FitzSimons
1/2 Tradd St.
Charleston, S.C.
A pencilled annotation, also at the upper left, in the compiler’s hand:
Notes on Fitz Simons family collected for me by Mrs. Waveland Fitz Simons
The addressee, handwritten in ink:
Mrs. James Pickens Walker
3628 Hedrick Street
Jacksonville 5, Florida
Typewritten sheet (page 3)
A typewritten sheet numbered 3 at the upper right. A typewritten note across the top in different alignment:
Part of a consecutively numbered pages of a typewritten record kept by Kit FitzSimons of Columbia nothing to show to whom written- though probably an enclosure in one of the letters given. M. A. Read.
The body, divided into several short sections:
Harry Hammond, Beech Island, S. C. February 15, 1903. to Coz. Motte A. Read.
I have understood that Christopher FitzSimons came to Charleston at the call of his uncle Christopher FitzSimons living there. His son Christopher — was much in Ireland where he made the acquaintance of Mr. James(sic) O’ Callaghan who returned with him and involved him in cotton speculation that ruined him. Dr. Christopher, son of Christopher FitzSimons spent some time in Ireland with the O’Callaghans about 1849. In 1857 I visited Mr. Hugh O’Callaghan at Rosemont, Booterstown about 12 miles south of Dublin. He was Sr. magistrate of Dublin and was quite old, seeking to be retired on a civil service pension. He told me the O’Callaghans were descended from two brothers Hugh and James.
I have understood that Christopher FitzSimons came to Charleston at the call of his uncle FitzSimons living there. He found his uncle Mr. F.S. dead when he arrived but inherited some property say about $10,000 from him. His son Christopher graduated at the University of Dublin made the acquaintance of James O’Callaghan, who ruined him. Christopher the 2nd’s son Dr. FitzSimons spent sometime with the O’Callaghans about 1849 and brought back a print of the FitzSimons Coat of Arms. This was lost in the Dabacle [uncertain] after the war.
Christopher the 1st. died in Barnwell County, S. C. near Silver Bluff. The place called Cathwood in possession of the widow of his grandson Paul Hammond. We have portraits of grandfather and grandmother by Peel.
Paul FitzSimons was born at Newport, R. I. while my grandmother was on a visit there By a strange coincidence his grandson Paul FitzSimons a surgeon in the U. S. Navy was stationed at Newport where his wife gave birth to a son named Paul.
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Letter to “My dear Nephew” signed Kate F. Whitehead, states:"One of the FitzSimons family was Primate of all Ireland and I have the Coat of Arms. " Dated October 17, 1894.
Katherine O’Callaghan daughter of James O’Callaghan & Cicely McCan was your great great grandmother and married Cashel FitzSimons.
James O’Callaghan entertained Aunt Hammond when she was in Ireland. Same record. " We have not traced the FitzSimons as far back as I hope by o[u]r united efforts to do. They were Normons of high degree write Miss O’Callaghan one a primate of all Ireland. The FitzSimons family plate was discovered behind a piece of old wainscotting where it had been concealed from Cromwell’s soldiers. Aunt Hammond had a watch and a spoon part of the contents of that panel in the wall. Crest. Boar with spear through shoulder. Motto – Interum Iterumque, (Again & Again.
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McCrady’s S. C. In Rev. 1775-1780, p. 536.
Christopher FitzSimons one of the signers of an address to the British Commander occupying Charleston, June 5, 1780.
L. Sabine’s Loyalists. Vo. 2 Boston, Little Brown 1864.
Fragments, Christopher FitzSimons of Charleston, S. C. banished & property confiscated in 1780. Royal Gazette, S. C. Sept. 28, 1782 Died, Mr. Christopher FitzSimons.
AI Notes
Two items on the page. Upper: a stamped, postmarked envelope (Charleston, S.C., MAR 16, 7 PM, 1960) addressed to Mrs. James Pickens Walker, 3628 Hedrick Street, Jacksonville 5, Florida, with the sender’s address inked at upper left (‘Mrs. T. Fitz Simons, 1/2 Tradd St., Charleston, S.C.’ — same Tradd Street address as Mabel/Mrs. Waveland S. FitzSimons of pages 014–017) and a pencilled annotation noting the contents were ‘Notes on Fitz Simons family / collected for me by Mrs. / Waveland Fitz Simons.’ Lower: a typewritten sheet headed ‘3’, identified by a transcriber’s note at the top as ‘Part of a consecutively numbered pages of a typewritten record kept by Kit FitzSimons of Columbia nothing to show to whom written- though probably an enclosure in one of the letters given. M. A. Read.’ The page quotes a Feb. 15, 1903 letter from Harry Hammond on Christopher FitzSimons and the O’Callaghans, then quotes a letter signed Kate F. Whitehead, then McCrady’s and Sabine’s references to Christopher FitzSimons in the Revolution. The typescript reads ‘Cathwood’ (with C, not the Kathwood form used elsewhere in the archive — a typist’s variant), preserves the ‘Dabacle’ [sic] spelling, and gives the Latin motto as ‘Interum Iterumque’ (correctly Iterum Iterumque, ‘Again & Again’).