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Below is an extract, sent to me recently, about the Quakers in Athlone. It mentions Clibborn, Lecky, English, Miller, Robinson surnames all of which occur in the Clibborns of Ireland's family tree.
Extracts from 'Athlone in the Seventeenth Century'
A presentation by Prof.Rev.G.T.Stokes to the Royal Society of Antiquities of Ireland in about 1892
There was considerable Quaker settlement round Athlone, though there never seems to have been a settled meeting house nearer than Moate. The first Quakers near Athlone seem to have been Nicholas Starkey, who lived near Creggan, and Thomas English at Moate, in whose house the first Quaker meeting was established in 1659. The meeting was subsequently removed to the house of John Clibborn, where it has remained ever since. Anthony Robinson and Millar settled about the same period in Ballyloughloe parish. The Robinsons had several farms. One branch was settled at Glyn in 1685, according to 'The Correspondence of Henry, Earl of Clarendon', vol.ii p.73. Joseph Robinson is found at Waterstown in 1712. The Clibborns settled at Moate about 1660. In 1690-91, Captain John Clibborn, as he was called, exercised much influence in protecting his co-religionists against the raids of the rapparees, who plundered the whole country. He founded a well-known Quaker family, who were connected by !
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rriage with the Leckys of Carlow; see Rutty's 'History of the Quakers in Ireland', pp.101,107 and 'Edmundson's Life' in Friends Library; T.C.D Library, Fag.w.15.4. This last-mentioned book is valuable, as affording a glimpse into life in Ireland under the rule of Tyrconnel and James II.
Celia
Hello Fellow CLIBBORN researchers,
More info from a recent Google search:
Source:
http://www1.salvationarmy.org/heritage.nsf/AllSubCategories?OpenView&Restric
tToCategory=Children_of_William_&_Catherine_Booth&main=People
Children of William & Catherine Booth
Children Of William & Catherine Booth - The Summary
William Bramwell
Ballington - "The Marshal"
Ballington And The Volunteers Of America
Catherine "Katie" - "La Marèchale"
Emma Moss - "The Consul" / "Rahiman"
Herbert Henry Howard - "The Commandant"
Marian Billups "Marie"
Evangeline Cory - "The Commander"
Lucy Milward - "Ruhani"
Adopted Children Of The Booths
For Other Booth Family Information
Source:
http://www1.salvationarmy.org/heritage.nsf/0/9f15ad864c3faa8a8025694c004a225
d?OpenDocument
Catherine "Katie" - "La Marèchale"
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Best Wishes.
Ron in Hong Kong
Hello Fellow CLIBBORN researchers,
Some History of the Clyburn Family Name
http://www.cliburne.com/Clyburn_Family_News__Vol_8.htm
By Frank R. Clyburn (Robert L. Clyburn's Son)
The surname Clyburn is of locative origin, belonging to that category of
surnames derived from the place where the original bearer once lived or
held land. In this instance, the surname Cleburn can be traced to the place
name Cliburn located six miles from Penrith in Westmoreland. It is derived
from the Old English "cliff " meaning "cliff, slope" and the Middle English
"burn " meaning "a stream." The earliest written reference to the sur-name
Cleburn and its variant Cliburn, Clibburn, Claborn, Clibborn, Clabburn and
Clabon dates back to the fourteenth century and includes one Robert de
Cleburne who is
recorded in the Register for the Freemen of the City of York in 1364.
Thomas Clabeyn, bailiff of Yarmouth is listed in the Feet of Fines for
Yorkshire in 1412 and William Clayborne is mentioned in the same records
for Nortolk during the reign of Edward VI. Oliver Clibburn is also listed
in the Register for the Freemen of the City of York in 1475. It must also
be noted that there was a personal name for records include one Clibern
Bishop who appears in the Charters of the Honour of Mawbray c. 1150-69 and
one Clibernbus is listed int the Feet of Fines for Yorkshire in 1202. It is
interesting to note that the surname Cleburn and its variants Clibborn,
Clayburn and Clebburn can be found in Ireland. The main family settled in
Moate Co. Westmeath during the Cromwellian period of the seventeenth
century although the name was in Ireland before that as one William Clyburn
was the Dean of Kildare in 1642. The arms described below are those of the
above mentioned Clibborn
Family of Moate Castle, Co. Westmeath.
BLAZEN OF ARMES : Argent, a chevron voided between three wolves' heads
sable, on a chief of the lasst an escallop between two round buckles of the
field.
CREST: Out of the ducal coronet a wolf's head sable.
MOTTO: Virtus vincit invidiam. Translation: Virtue overcomes envy
ORIGIN: IRELAND
http://www.cliburne.com/Clyburn_Family_News__Vol_8.htm
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Best Wishes.
Ron in Hong Kong
Hello Fellow CLIBBORN researchers,
My apaologies,
I ommitted to change the title of the last message I posted - please
delete it from your inbox and retain this one with the correct title.
Sha_Miller has just joined Clibborn [Moate] Family MSN web-site.
Sha_Miller says:
My father James Robert Carmen Miller was a very close friend of Reverend
Booth-Cibborn in Portland Oregon. My father helped in the construction on
Immanuel Temple. My parents both visited with William's son William in 1994
about 3 weeks before my father died. I had met William Jr.s son at a bible
study in Portland when I was in College. My mom has a number of books, etc
that he gave them. Mom (Shirley) does not have internet access, and so want
to be able to
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If any members wish to make contact with Sha_Miller please let me know.
Best Wishes.
Ron in Hong Kong
Hello Fellow CLIBBORN researchers,
Sha_Miller has just joined Clibborn [Moate] Family MSN web-site.
Sha_Miller says:
My father James Robert Carmen Miller was a very close friend of Reverend
Booth-Cibborn in Portland Oregon. My father helped in the construction on
Immanuel Temple. My parents both visited with William's son William in 1994
about 3 weeks before my father died. I had met William Jr.s son at a bible
study in Portland when I was in College. My mom has a number of books, etc
that he gave them. Mom (Shirley) does not have internet access, and so want
to be able to
_______________________________________________________________
If any members wish to make contact with Sha_Miller please let me know.
Best Wishes.
Ron in Hong Kong
Hello Fellow CLIBBORN researchers, there have been no postings
on this message board for some time, so I thought I should make
a 'Wake Up Call'
I have done a Google search for Clibborn recently and have found
some interesting new material now available on the web that I
thought would do well to be posted here.
Best Wishes to you all.
Ron
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http://www.raymondscountydownwebsite.com/html/banbridge.htm
Banbridge - Northern Ireland
Part of
An Extract taken from the History of Banbridge.
The Linen Trade
Extracts:
..........................
The growth of Banbridge is due to the growth of the linen trade in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the former century weaving was
carried on by hand-looms throughout the thickly populated country
districts, Bleaching flourished along the banks of the Bann on various
farms. Some larger bleaching firms were at work towards the end of this
century. The Belfast News-Letter of 11th April, 1783, contained an account
of Assizes for Co. Down when Patrick Gordon, alias McGurnaghan was
sentenced to be executed at Drumbridge, and Steven Gordon to be executed at
Castlewellan, for stealing linen out of the bleach-green of Walter Crawford
of Ballievy. John Wright was sentenced to be executed at Banbridge for
stealing linen out of the bleach-green of James Clibborn (1) of Banbridge
and John Holmes to be executed at Downpatrick for receiving said linen
knowing it was stolen. Several others were also sentenced to death. The
NewsLetter commented" It may be hoped that the example of these unhappy
wretches will prevent the practice of robbing greens, so injurious to a
manufacture on which the poorest as well as the highest classes of the
inhabitants of this country so much depend." The credit for abolishing such
savage penalties is largely due to Mr. John Handcock of Lisburn.
(l) This firm afterwards became Clibborn & Co., and by taking a nephew into
partnership, Clibborn, Hill & Co. It had property at Daisy Hill and Solitude.)
Friends, the owner of the works now in the possession of Messrs. Richardson
.................
Among those who received bounties for the manufacture of sail cloth,
canvas, and duck from mill spun yarn was Wm. Hudson, Ballydown, 1809, for
1,047 yards. The principal buyers at Banbridge were Thos. C. Wakefield,
Moyallon ; James and T.. Uprichard, Moyallon ; George Darley, Mount
Pleasant; Christy & Dawson, Lowertown, Gilford ; Joseph Law, Corries (?
Coose), Banbridge; James Foot, Banford; Thomas Crawford, Milltown; William
Hayes, Millmount ; Edw. Clibborn, Banbridge; Wat. Crawford, Ballievy; Phil,
Mulligan, Ballievy; Hugh Burns, Banbridge; Coslet Waddle, New Forge, Moira.
The principal buyers at Armagh, Lurgan, &c., markets included Wm. Hayes,
Gilbert Mulligan, John Mulligan, J, C. Mulligan. The same names are found
buying at other centres through Ulster, Messrs. Crawford being mentioned as
buying as far away as Castleblayney. A memorial on behalf of a linen
inspector is signed by John Mulligan, registered bleacher, and George
Mulligan. In the Linen Board Report for 1820 the description of linen sold
at Banbridge markets is 12oo to 18oo, 6oo to 8oo coarse. There were 31,350
pieces sealed in 1820. The estimated value was 1s. 7d. per yard and the
total value, £62,660. The returns show a marked increase of weekly sales
from 500 in 1794 to 1,205 in 1820. Names of Banbridge linen men often
figure in memorials to the Linen Board for the appointments of Seal
masters, in the year 1820 we have from Banbridge George Nicholson, Wm.
Hayes Jun., Walter Crawford, R.B. (Registered Bleacher); Thomas Crawford,
Andrew Crawford, R.B., James Foot, R.B, Ed.C. Clibborn, R.B. Richard Hayes,
Samuel Law, Hazelbank; Charles Magee.
"The following list gives the chief farmers in this parish with the area of
their land and the description of their work given in the returns :
Extract:
Edward Clibborn 21 acres Farmer, flour and bleach mills
Pigott & Co/s Directory for 1824
(Gives the following as Linen Merchants and Bleachers in Banbridge)
Ed.C. Clibborn, George Crawford, Ballydown.
In Slater's 1846 Directory additional information is to be found, .........
Edw. C. Clibborn as a flour miller, linen merchant and bleacher
At the Great Exhibition held in London, 1852, the first prize for diapers
went to Clibborn & Co. of Banbridge.
At the Great Fair held in London, 1862, M'Call enumerates among the
exhibitors of linens Fenton, Son & Co; Dunbar, Dickson & Co., Brown &
Liddell, H, Matier & Co., Clibborn, Hill & Co.
........................
A paper read in 1874 before the British Association by John Smyth, jr.,
C.E., F.C.S., of Milltown, gives a lucid account of the work of the Bann
Reservoir Company.
He quotes Sir Robert Kane that " the Upper Bann is the most fully
economised river in Ireland "from its source in the Deer's Meadow to
Moyallon flour mill is 31 miles long. There is no record of when first
mills were erected on it ; some of the weir dams found in old maps seem
very ancient. From the junctions of the Muddock River to the outlet from
Corbet Lough the fall is 441 feet and from the latter point to the level of
the tail water at Moyallon mill the fall is 168 feet. In 1772 he estimates
there were 26 bleach mills on the river. The undershot wheels, however,
only utilised about 25%, of the theoretical useful effect of the falls.
About 1833 Mr. Law of Hazelbank applied to Sir William Fairbairn, F.R.S,,
the celebrated hydraulic engineer, He erected an iron breast wheel which
was then a great improvement. It was used for driving linen beetling
machines. Afterwards Sir W. Fairbairn erected a similar one at Seapatrick
(Mr. Hayes) for driving beetling engines and power looms. In 1835 the
principal mill-owners took steps to procure a more regular supply of water.
The Committee appointed was Thos. Crawford, Geo. Mulligan, Edw. Clibborn,
Rich. Hayes, Hugh Dunbar, Fred. Hayes, John Smyth Sen.., Samuel Law, Benj.
Haughton, Isaac Stoney, John Christie, Thos.Wakefield Jun.. They consulted
Sir W. Fairbairn and J. F. Bateman, F.R.S., who in their report advised the
construction of two impounding reservoirs, Lough Island Reavy and Deer's
Meadow, with an auxiliary one at the Corbet Lough. The Bann Reservoir Co.
was then. formed and the Lough Island Reavy reservoir constructed in 1839.
The Company was involved in ruinous lawsuits by farmers whose lands were
flooded. The appeals went to the House of Lords and were regarded as legal
precedents. The Corbet Reservoir proved a difficult undertaking and was not
finished until 1847. " The Deer's Meadow Reservoir was abandoned as the
works were of a heavy character and the gathering ground being small it was
feared there would not be sufficient water to fill it." Lough Island Reavy
cost for engineering works £15,000 and for land £6,000. ...................
................. The Brewery was originally built in 1840 by the Johnstons
of Lurgan. It has passed through several hands and is now unoccupied, In
the year 1853 the Malcolmsons of Waterford took it over for cloth bleaching
and finishing. They had then a warehouse in Belfast; a Mr. Fennell was
their manager. James McWilliam seems to have been associated with them. In
any case he became their successor in the ownership of these bleaching
works. Mr McWilliam lived in the house on the Newry Road now occupied by
Mr. W.A. McCaldin, It used to be known as the Ball Alley, and there he
manufactured thread. At one time he owned or carried on several places in
Banbridge, including the Clibborn's linen works, Millmount bleaching works,
and the Ballydown bleaching works. James Anderson & Co. are now the
proprietors of the last firm.
William Waugh started his factory in 1830. William Walker who was his
partner built in 1865 the power-loom factory. It occupies partly the site
of the old Clibborn factory, Prospect Terrace having been erected where the
Clibborn warehouse stood. After Walker's death Hamilton and Robinson bought
the business out of Chancery. It was afterwards taken over by Messrs.
Robinson and Cleaver,
the well-known Belfast firm, whose linens are famous through the world.
The Bann Weaving Co. was built at Belmont by Robert McClelland & Sons in
1865.
It is now disused.