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Strabane Names 1755 & 1789
From tenement Rents and their Proprietors,
along with a Memorial of the Inhabitants of Strabane,
to John James, Earl of Abercorn
24 Tenement Rents in Strabane and their Proprietors
4/March 1755
Renters Proprietors
John Knox........John Someral
John Masterson.....Thomas Wilson
William Homes.......S and William Sinclair
Thomas Joanes......Desmond McMackin
Margery Hamilton.....Sinclair Brown
John Gamble...... Widow Gamble
Oliver McCausland
Margaret Lock...... John Someral
Margaret Foster
Patrick McKeever
James Robison
James Hamilton, Gentleman
Ed. Tradinick
David Bratly...John Sim
James Davison
George Hamill.....James Ector
Hugh Knox.....Jon Egar
James Lyon
George Maghee......William Stinson
Thomas Brown.......John Shields
James Knox
Andrew McCarter.......William Loughridge
James Cunyngham
Anthony Cousy.......Cairns Henderson
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From the introductions to the Abercorn Letter's as relating to Ireland 1736-1816
#33 1789 (year)
Memorial of the inhabitants of Strabane to John James Earl of Abercorn.
We the inhabitants.......thank you for the donation to poor fund.......signed:-
Adam Harvey. Rector of Camus
William Crawford
Thomas Hamilton
Ephraim Stannus
Jane Hamilton widow
James Sproulle
Jocelyn Ingraham
Wm. Smyly
George Rea
Patk Fleming
Andrew Mease
James Rousse
James Lyon
Jas Hamilton
David Roulston
Claud Hamilton
Josia Kerr
Benjamin Fulton
James Orr
Robert Porter
Samuel Morton
John Barclay
Andrew Gamble
Nathaniel Edie
James Stevenson
Archibald Allen
James Patton
Robert Kerr
George McNeallany(?)
James Fleming
William Neilson
Nicolas Edwards
Frederick Porter
William Pollock
William Ross
James Gaston
John Alexander
John Holmes
Joseph Gibson
William Fleming
Wm Hamilton
Andrew Cashone
John Evans
Andrew Jenkins