Linen Merchants Attending the Cookstown, Derryloran Parish, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland Market 1816
Extracted from the Minutes of the Trustees of the Linen and Hempen Manufactures of Ireland, 1817
Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted by
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
len_swindley[at]hotmail.com
This file of LINEN MERCHANTS ATTENDING THE COOKSTOWN, 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 COOKSTOWN & DERRYLORAN PARISH, COUNTY TYRONE on this website can be found at the foot of this file.
1. This is a WEEKLY MARKET. It is held every SATURDAY.
2. The Market commences at ten o’clock in summer. And at eleven in winter. It concludes at half-past eleven in summer and half-past twelve in winter.
3. The Market is held in the open Street.
4. The different kinds of Linens sold here, are as follow:
Three-quarter wide Webs, from six to seven hundred. Twenty-eight inches in breadth and fifty-two yards in length.
5. The average types of Webs brought to this Market are as follow:
6. The average prices of Webs brought to this Market, are as follow:
Three-quarter wide Linens 8 ½ d. per yard
Seven-eighths wide Webs, from eight to twelve hundred. Thirty-eight inches in breadth and fifty-two yards in length 14 ½ d.
7. The Linens which are brought to this Market are generally bleached at home; a small quantity is sometimes exporter to England and Scotland in a brown state, as it comes to our Market.
The three-quarter wide Linens in generally consumed at home, being cut up for linings &c. in the different retail Shops throughout the Kingdom.
The seven-eighth wide Linen consumed in large quantities at home, for Shirts for the Army &c. and a considerable quantity is exported to America and the West India Markets.
8. The three quarter wide Linens are exposed to sale in this Market, at half-past ten o’clock in summer , and half-after-eleven in winter.
The seven-eighth wide Webs at ten in summer and eleven in winter.
All sorts after these hours sell together.
10. This County and the County of Derry, furnish all the Weavers who attend this Market
11. About four and fifty Weavers upon an average attend this Market
12. About forty Buyers upon an average attend this market.
13. Of the forty Buyers who attend this Market, twenty are Principals and twenty 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 here to purchase for them:
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NAMES RESIDENCE William MAGILL Creeve Samuel MAGILL Creeve Mr. HOGG Dungannon Mr. STEWART Drumreagh Mr. MURRAY Drumreagh Mr. SHAW Castlecaulfield William GREER Milltown Thomas GREER Rowan-hill Samuel McDONALD Coal Island Thomas R. GERAGHTY Dungannon Thomas MORGAN Cookstown William MORGAN Cookstown Joseph IRWIN Willbrooke [Wellbrook?] Messrs. PIKE and Co. Woodmount
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:
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Further records for, DERRYLORAN PARISH, COUNTY TYRONE & FLAXGROWERS and the LINEN INDUSTRY can be found at:
Derryloran Parish Records, County Tyrone
Records of the Linen Industry and Linen Merchants:
Occupations, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Spinning Wheel Bounty List (Flax Seed Premiums) for County Tyrone
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