Trying to move my Mail account to my wifes old iPad 2

The good folks at my Apple Store today made sure that they transferred all her apps and files to the new iPad Mini i bought her. I'm now trying to set up myMacBookPro Mail accounts on her old iPad 2 but without success. I started trying with my iMac mail account and received a message that the account name is already in use. I've two other Gmail accounts to transfer over as well.
My plan has been to just use the iPad2 for my net use and my MBP for my photo work. If anyone has any ideas on how to do this I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks!
Dennis

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See below for location of export.
For restoring from Time machine here's is the help text for doing so. (I've only done this on individual messages)
I also think if you copy everything in ~/Library/Mail you may be all-right.

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