Linen Merchants Attending the Fintona, Donacavey 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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1. This Market is held every second FRIDAY
2. The Market commences at ten o’clock in Summer and eleven o’clock in Winter. It is over from half an hour to an hour after its commencement., according to the quantity of cloth for sale.
3. The Market is held the open street in the centre of the town.
4. All Linens brought to this Market are seven-eighth wide, forty-eights to fifty-two yards long. From the set of ten hundred to eleven hundred.
5. The average price of Linen brought to this Market is from 11d. to 15d. per yard.
6. The Yarn goes through a process of bleaching before it is made into Linen. There is no half-bleached Linen sold here.
7. About one third of the Linen brought to this Market is exported to England in a brown state; the remainder is bleached in the country, a small part of which is consumed here, the remainder is sent to other counties.
8. All Webs brought to this Market are exposed to sale at the same hour of the day.
9. The average number of Webs sold in this Market may be said be thus:
Six thousand double pieces on each market day, value about £1,600
10. All the Weavers who attend this Market reside in the County.
11. About four hundred and fifty Weavers, upon an average, attend each Market
12. About fifty Buyers, upon an average, attend each Market, fifteen are Principals and thirty-five Commissioners.
13. Of the fifty Buyers who attend this Market, fifteen are principals, and thirty-five are Commissioners
14. The following are the names and residences of the principal Buyers of this County who attend this Market themselves, or send their Commissioners to purchase for them:
NAME RESIDENCE Peter QUIN Omagh, Tyrone James GREER Omagh, Tyrone Owen DONNELLY Omagh, Tyrone Gabriel CATHERS Omagh, Tyrone Owen MOSS Omagh Tyrone John and James QUIN Douglass Bridge, Tyrone Edward SPROUL Spa Mount, Tyrone James SPROUL Spa Mount, Tyrone Gilbert McHUE Dery [Derg] Bridge, Tyrone John CHAMBERS Omagh, Tyrone Daniel ECCLES Omagh, Tyrone John MATHERSON Omagh, Tyrone Frederick McCORMACK Strabane, Tyrone Hugh OVENS Strabane, Tyrone Thomas COOK Omagh, Tyrone
15. The following are the Names and Residences of the principal Buyers from other Counties who attend this Market themselves, or send their Commissioners to purchase for them:
NAME RESIDENCE Francis BENNETT & Son Coleraine, Londonderry CURTIS, HEMPHILL, HUNTER & Co. Coleraine, Londonderry John WILSON Colerain, Londonderry Samuel WILSON Colerain, Londonderry Thomas RICE Colerain, Londonderry John HART Colerain, Londonderry Charles BERNEY Colerain, Londonderry John KNOX Colerain, Londonderry Henry ORR Coleraine, Londonderry Leslie OGILBY Newtown Limavady, Londonderry William OGILBY Newtown Limavady, Londonderry James McFARLAN Colerain, Londonderry James McAFEE Colerain, Londonderry William MOODY Dungiven, Limavady John BOYLE Dungiven Mark ROGERS Newtown Limavady ACHESON, SMYTH & Co. Derry, Londonderry Carey McCLELLAND & Co. Londonderry John and William DYSART Derry James GILMOUR Derry Robert CONN Colerain William RAMSAY Derry Joseph JOHNSON Stranorlar [Co. Donegal] Monk EAGLESON Colerain Hugh and Thomas HENDRICK Derry
Further records for DONACAVEY PARISH can be found at:
Donacavey Parish Records, County Tyrone
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