Linen Merchants Attending the Dungannon, Drumglass Parish, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland Market 1816
Extracted from the Minutes of the Trustees of the Linen and Hempen Manufactures of Ireland, 1816
Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted by
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
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This file of LINEN MERCHANTS ATTENDING THE DUNGANNON, COUNTY TYRONE, MARKET, 1816 forms part of the vast archive of 4,000+ pages of genealogical records relating to COUNTIES TYRONE, DONEGAL, LONDONDERRY & FERMANAGH provided without charge or subscription by CoTyroneIreland Welcome to the Premier Website & Research Tool for Cos. Tyrone, Donegal, Londonderry & Fermanagh Genealogy (cotyroneireland.com) A complete list of records pertaining to LINEN MERCHANTS and DRUMGLASS PARISH, COUNTY TYRONE on this website can be found at the foot of this file.
DUNGANNON
1 This is a WEEKLY MARKET. It is held every THURSDAY.
2. The Market commences at ten o’clock from the 25th March to the 25th of September, and from the 25th of September to the 25th March, at eleven o’clock
3. The Market is held in the open street, in the centre of the Town.
4. All Linens that come to this Market are seven-eighths wide, from fort-eight to fifty-two yards long, of the sets of six to eleven hundred
5. The prices of the Linens brought to this Market are as follow:
Those made of Tow-Yarn average from 5½d per yard.
Those made of Flax-Yarn average from 9d to 13½d per yard
6 The Yarn of the Linens brought here goes through a process of one operation of bleaching before it is made into cloth. The half-bleached Linen has the seal of a Registered Bleacher affixed on it before it is exposed to sale.
7. The coarse Linen is, for the most part, exported to England. The fine Linen is bleached in this Country, and the most part, exported to England.
8. All Linens which come to this Market are exposed to sale at the same hour.
9. The average number of Webs sold in this Market may said to be thus – about 700 coarse Webs manufactured from Tow-yarn, and about 1,100 Webs from Flax-yarn. The average value of the whole about £4,000.
10. The Principal number of Weavers who attend this Market reside in this County
11. About twelve hundred Weavers, on an average, attend this Market weekly.
12. From one hundred to one hundred and twenty Buyers, upon an average, attend this Market
13. Of the Buyers who attend this Market about forty are Principals, the remainders are Commissioners
14. The following are the names and residences of the principal Buyers of this County, who attend the Market themselves, or send their Commissioners to purchase for them:
Name Residence JACKSON, EYRE and Co Tulladoe, Moy Thomas GREER Rhone Hill, Dungannon Thomas R GERAGHTY Dungannon Alexander STEWART Drumreagh, Dungannon Jonathan HOGG Redford, Dungannon Jonathan PIKE Derryvale, Dungannon William GREER Milltown, Dungannon Edward SHAW Castlecaulfield, Dungannon Patrick FERGUSON Springfield, Dungannon William BOARDMAN Dungannon Samuel McDONNELL Derry Hill, Dungannon James IRWIN Willbrook, Cookstown William MAGILL Cookstown William MORGAN Cookstown William BYERS Moy James DELWORTH Dungannon Joseph WILSON Dungannon William GARRETT Dungannon Jonathan TURNER Dungannon Joseph ORR Dungannon James MULLUN Dungannon James FALLON Dungannon John HIDES Stewartstown John WEIR Stewartstown James HUNTER Stewartstown Patrick McCONNELL Stewartstown Samuel MORROW Dungannon George WILCOCKS Dungannon John MURRAY Dungannon Robert McKNIGHT Augher 15. The following are the names and residences of the principal Buyers from other Counties who attend this Market themselves or lend their Commissioners to purchase for them:
Name County Francis BENNETT and Son Coleraine, Londonderry John WILSON and Son Coleraine, Londonderry John KNOX Coleraine, Londonderry Thomas RICE Coleraine, Londonderry Samuel WILSON Coleraine, Londonderry Monk EAGLESON Coleraine, Londonderry Charles BERNIE Coleraine, Londonderry Charles HEMPHILL, HUNTER and Co. Coleraine, Londonderry Robert CONN Coleraine, Londonderry Thomas BENNETT Coleraine, Londonderry James McFARLAND Coleraine, Londonderry James McAFEE Coleraine, Londonderry Leslie ALEXANDER Newtown Limavady James ALEXANDER Newtown Limavady Alexander Newtown Limavady ACHESON, SMYTH, and Co. Londonderry Carey McCLELLAND and Co. Londonderry Hugh OVENS Strabane Mark ROGERS Dungiven, Londonderry John BOYLE Dungiven, Londonderry John CHAMBERS Mulaghmore, Co Tyrone Archibald and John BARKLEY Larne William MILLER Ballymena John CURIE Ballymena William RANKIN Coleraine Alexander CLARK Maghera Jonathan RICHARDSON Lisburn Robert McBRIDE Armagh Adam McBRIDE Armagh John WYNNE Keady Hugh KIDD Keady James GERON Keady Joseph JOHNSON Stranorlar John and James QUIN Newtown Stewart Owen DONNELLY Omagh Edward SPROULE Newton Stewart James GREER Omagh John CHARLY Belfast William MACKY Coleraine Hugh HART Coleraine Henry ORR Coleraine
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