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From: Charles Clark <>
Subject: Re: [Scotch-Irish] Fugard/Feugarde
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 14:19:42 +1300
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A couple of comments re Grace Lawless Lee: first that she uses a rather
narrower definition than some. Quoting from the Preface:
The origin of the term Huguenot is open to controversy, and the problem
which it raises has been discussed by many writers. It forms no part of the
author's intention to enter upon it here but, since the name has been often
applied so loosely to flemish and even to German as well as to French
refugees, it must be stated that here it is used solely a a synonym for
French Protestant. That writers such as Gimlette can find an early precedent
for their elastic use of the term will be seen in Fitzmaurice's demand of
1569 referred to in the chapter on Cork (page 280) [ie of Lee], but such a
use seems both incorrect and confusing and has therefore been avoided in a
work which concerns itself soley with the French settlements in Ireland

So, Louise, Lee doesn't cover refugees who came to Ireland via other places
such as Flanders. Hadn't noticed that bit before.

Secondly, if your Fugards are all in Down, they might come under the
auspices of the Huguenot colony at Lisburn. Lee refers to an article in the
Ulster Journal of Archaeologybut more recently there have been at least one
book on the Lisburn colony. If my memory serves me right, the author was
Cyril Dubourdieu, but you would do better to check the archives of this list
for last year or the year before

wrote:

> Thanks for the lookup. Bessbrook had a linen mill there in the 1800's
> and my ggrandfather was a "hackler", which meant that he combed the
> linen.

For more on the linen industry you could do worse than get hold of a copy of
"Linen on the Green", by my cousin Wallace Clark. It's a history of the
family company William Clark & Sons, of Upperlands, and it is available from
amazon.uk or from the Upperlands site at www.upperlands.com , click on
contact, then on Wallace Clark
Alternatively there are quite a few bits of the book extracted into the
archives of this list
Charlie

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