Linen Merchants Attending the Stewartstown, Donaghenry 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 STEWARTSTOWN, 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 DONAGHENRY PARISH, STEWARTSTOWN, COUNTY TYRONE on this website can be found at the foot of this file.
1 This is a WEEKLY MARKET. It is held every WEDNESDAY.
2. The Market commences at ten o’clock in the summer, and eleven in winter. It concludes at half-past eleven in summer, and at half-past twelve in winter
3. The Market is held in the open street
4. Seven-eighth wide Webs ate brought to this Market, fifty-two yards in length, and thirty-two inches in breadth; of quality from eight to eleven hundred
5. The average price of the Webs brought to this Market in a brown state may be said to be 13d. per yard
6. The Linens are brought to this Market in a brown state.
7. The Linens which are brought to this Market are generally bleached at home, and partly consumed in making the Shirts for the Army, &c. &c. and the remainder sent to America, the West Indies, &c. A small quantity is exported to England and Scotland, in a brown state.
8.All Linens sold at this Market are exposed to sale at the same time
9. The Average number of webs brought to this Market weekly, may be said to be two hundred and ten pieces of seven-eighths wide, value about £630.
10. Nineteen out of twenty of the Weavers who attend this Market reside in this County. The remainder come from the County of Derry.
11. About two hundred Weavers, upon an average, attend each weekly Market.
12. About twenty-five Buyers, upon average, attend each Market
13. Of the twenty-five Buyers who attend this Market, ten are Principals, and fifteen are Commissioners.
14. The following are the names and residences of the principal Buyers of this County , who attend the Markey themselves, or send their Commissioners to purchase for them:
NAME RESIDENCE William MAGILL Creeve Samuel MAGILL Creeve James MAGILL Greenlodge Alexander STUART Drumragh John MURRAY Drumragh Samuel McDONALD Coal-Island Thomas MORGAN Cookstown William MORGAN Cookstown Messrs. PIKE & Co. Dungannon Thomas R. GERAGHTY Dungannon William BARCLAY near Stewartstown
15. The following are the names and residences of the principal Buyers from other Counties who attend this Market, or send their Commissioners to purchase for them:
NAME RESIDENCE John DICKEY Cullybackey, Co. Antrim Daniel CURREL Kildrum, Co. Antrim John WALKER Cullybackey, Co. Antrim Seven of the Messrs. MILLERs Kildrum Mr. BARKLIE Larne Mr. BARKLIE Coleraine John KNOX Aughadooey John WILSON and Sons -- HEMPHILL and HUNTER Coleraine BENNETT & Co. Coleraine RANKIN and HEATHFIELD Coleraine Mr. THOMPSON Belfast JACKSON, AYRE and Co. Tullydooey, Co. Armagh ALEXANDER and Sons Newtownlimavady, Co. Derry Messrs. CLARKs Maghera Co. Derry Mr. MOODY Newtownlimavady, Co. Derry
Further records for DONAGHENRY PARISH can be found at:
Donaghenry Parish Records, County Tyrone
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