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Orange Demonstration at Gortin, Bodoney Lower Parish, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland July 1848
Extracted from the Tyrone Constitution, Omagh, July 14 1848
Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted by
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
len_swindley[at]hotmail.com
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GORTIN - The loyal Orangemen of the Gortin district, comprising nine lodges, marched in procession to Plumbridge, and from thence to Corick, where they we joined by eight lodges from the Ardstraw district. Charles J. Gardiner, Esq., regaled them liberally in a field adjoining his cottage. They afterwards returned to Gortin and assembled in the demesne of A. W. Cole Hamilton, Esq., where they remained about half an hour, when they separated in a most orderly and peaceable manner and returned to their respective lodge rooms. The number composing the procession was estimated at about five thousand. – Though it was market day in Gortin there was no interruption to the general harmony. The following declaration, which was signed by the several masters on behalf of their lodges, which is strongly expressive of the anti-repeal tendencies of the loyal Orangemen of Gortin: -
We the undersigned members of the lodges of the Ardstraw and Gortin districts of Orangemen, assembled on the 12th July inst., at Gortin, having heard that it has been represented that the feelings of Orangemen are generally in favour of a repeal of the union, take this opportunity of making our opinions known on so an important a question, by stating that we are determined to adhere to the union between Great Britain and Ireland, and to uphold the same by all the means in our power: and we therefore request the masters of the several lodges now assembled at Gortin, on our behalf, to sign their names to this unanimous declaration, and to take measures to have the same made publicly known.
John Simpson, district master, Ardstraw district
George Fulton, deputy district master, Ardstraw district
John McFarland, district master, Gortin district
Masters
Joseph Arbuccle
Moses Kilpatrick
John Hunter
Robt. Riddle
James McCastland
James Rea
William Patton
James Dougherty
Wm. Patton, jun.
Thomas York
James Carland
George Dunn
Archibald Duncan
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