Charles Francis TIMMONS M.D. ( - )

Name:	Charles Francis TIMMONS M.D.
Sex:	Male
Father:	-
Mother:	-

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth		La Valette (near Surville), Manche, Normandy, France
Death	"22 JUL 1754"	Near Edenderry, Ireland

Individual Note

Death Entry in Quaker minutes book.

Edenderry is the site of an old linen bleachgreen in the Lagan Valley.

http://www.lisburn.com/books/lisburn-borough-1983/borough-1983-a.htm

"Also close to the southern border of Belfast is Edenderry, a village beside the Lagan Canal which cuts a straight path across the countryside past the estate of Edenderry House. Here is Shaw's Bridge, well known to artists and photographers for this is one of the more beautiful stretches of the canal, a waterway that was built between 1754 and 1764 from funds gathered by a local tax on ale and whiskey sales. Although a pint of porter then sold for only two pence a total of ¹70,000 was amassed for the Lagan Canal scheme."

 

Beside the canal is the famous linen mill around which, in the 19th century, the village grew up. The mill itself was built on the site of an older linen bleachgreen. The rows of red-brick terraced houses for the mill workers overlook the mill and the Lagan.

 

Just outside Edenderry is the Giant's Ring, a most important pre-historic relic that was probably constructed about four thousand years ago. Its 15 foot high ramparts form a regular circle 250 yards in diameter and there are superb views across the Lagan valley. The circumference is composed of seven sections and at the centre stands a dolmen of seven great stones supporting one more in table form, all of basalt.

 

La Valette in Manche, Normandy is not on present day maps, but can be found on the #126 Coutances map by Cassini.