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From: malinda <>
Subject: Re: [Scotch-Irish] Fugard/Feugarde
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:29:58 -0600
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Have I asked you if you've run across any Douthit/Dowthwaite folks in the linen
business in Coleraine ?

malinda jones

Charles Clark wrote:

> 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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