Notes for Sarah TIMMONS
The will of Thomas TIMMONS, St. Bartholomew's Parrish, 1756, lists sister Sarah Gallery of Lurgan, county Armagh, Ireland.
The Linen industry in Ireland was established in 1698 by Louis Crommellin, a French Huguenot; refugee who was appointed by William III to organise the entire linen industry.
The Huguenot Settlements in Ireland, by Grace Lawless Lee, 1936, ISBN: 0788420054
"by intermarriage with the Anglo-Irish population, and the Anglicization
of the French names, the settlements grew indistinct, and little now
remains to mark them"
"The most important settlement north of Dublin and perhaps the most
important in Ireland where that country is concerned, was established in
the ruined village of Lisnagarvey in 1698: other colonies, more or less
off shoots of this are to be found in Dundalk and Lurgan..."
Lurgan is marked on a map in the book a Huguenot weaving center.
Lurgan became known for Linen, according to the book linen and such were "unknown" in the north until
the French arrived.
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Ola Cook Timmons, Captain John Timmons and his Descendants by Kathy Dodge Loyd, H. F. Prioleau, Happy Heritage by Cannon,
Sermons in Stone by Jason Cockfield, Minute Books of the Hebron Baptist Church, Our Kin by Bernice McCutcheon,
Three Rivers Historical Society,
Old Darlington District Genealogy Chapter,
Berkeley County Historical Society,
Huguenot Settlers in North America,
and the US Census.
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