Linen Merchants Attending the Newtownstewart, Ardstraw 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 NEWTOWNSTEWART MARKET, COUNTY TYRONE, 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 COUNTY TYRONE LINEN MERCHANTS & ARDSTRAW PARISH on this website can be found at the foot of this file.
Newstownstewart
1. This is a WEEKLY MARKET. It is held every MONDAY.
2. The Market for three-quarter Wide, called for Wrappers, commences at nine o’clock in the summer, and at half-past ten in the winter. That for the fine, called seven-eighths at ten in the summer, and eleven in the winter. The Market is finished in from half an hour to an hour, according to the quality of cloth.
3. The Market is held in the open street.
4. The Linens brought to this market are three-fourths wide, made of Tow-yarn called Wrappers, fifty-two and seventy yards long, and twenty-eight inches broad. Fine Cloth, made from Flax-yarn, are called seven-eighths wide Linen, forty-eight to fifty-two yards long, and thirty-two inches broad.
5. The average prices of the Linen brought to this Market are as follow:
Wrappers, about 6d per yard
Fine Linen, 12d per yard
6. All Linens come to this Market in a brown state. The Yarn gets only one operation of bleaching before it is manufactured. No half-bleach sold at this market.
7. The coarse Linen is exported to England in a brown state. The fine Linen, for the most part, is bleached in this country, and, after it is bleached, exported to different countries.
8. The coarse Cloth, called Wrappers, is exposed to sale at half-past nine o’clock in the summer and at half-past ten in winter. The fine, at ten, and eleven in summer and winter.
9. The average number of Webs sold in this Market may said to be thus: about eighty coarse Webs, called Wrappers, and one hundred and twenty fine webs. The value of the whole about £400.
10. All the Weavers who attend this Market reside in this County.
11. About from one hundred and twelve to one hundred and twenty Weavers, upon an average, attend this Market weekly.
12. About twenty-four Buyers, upon an average, attend this weekly Market.
13 Of the twenty-four Buyers wo attend this Market, eight are principals, and sixteen Commissioners
14. The following are the names and residences of the principal Buyers of this Country, who attend this Market themselves, or send their Commissioners to purchase for them:
Name Residence Edward SPROUL Spa Mount Owen DONNELLY Omagh JOHN MATHEWSON Newtownstewart Thomas COOK Lisdeven John and James QUIN Doulas-bridge Hugh OVENS Strabane Robert McCREA Glencush Edward MOSS Omagh
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 and William DYSART Derry James and William CAMPBELL Derry CAREY, McCLELLAND and Co. Derry Robert CONN Derry John ALEXANDER Newtownlimavady Leslie ALEXANDER Newtownlimavady James GILMOUR Newtownlimavady William CHAMBERS Lifford William RAMSAY Derry John KNOX Derry Robert STEVENSON Derry Francis BENNET and Son Coleraine John WILSON Coleraine Sam. WILSON Coleraine William HART Coleraine HENRY ORR Coleraine
Further records for ARDSTRAW PARISH, COUNTY TYRONE can be found at:
Ardstraw Parish Records, County Tyrone
Records of the Linen Industry and Linen Merchants:
Occupations Records, County Tyrone
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