Auction – Prime Flax and Land
The following is an extract from the Belfast Newsletter dated 9th August 1842 and appears with permission of the Belfast Newsletter.
Auction
The Subscriber will sell by Public Auction, at the hour of Twelve o’clock, on Wednesday, the 10th inst at Glenavy.
Fourteen acres of Prime Flax. There is every accommodation on the Premises for Watering, Grassing and Storing, &c.
Also, by permission of the Very Rev. Dean of Ross, about 14 acres of Land, situated in the Townland of Edenturcher, known as Canovan’s Farm, now in the possession of Dr. Murray.Terms at sale.
Maria Stewart. Glenavy, 4th August 1842.
Marriage Notice — Lorimer / McErvel
The following is an extract from the Belfast Newsletter dated 1st April 1861 and is reproduced with permission of the Belfast Newsletter.
Marriages:
March 27th in the Unitarian Church, Carrickfergus by the Rev. J. Jennings, A.B., James Lorimer Esq, Edenvale, Glenavy to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Archibald McErvel, Esq., Gartree, Crumlin.
Extract from Griffith Valuation 1862 – Union of Lisburn (Part of)
County of Antrim — Barony of Massereene — Parish of Glenavy
| Column 1 : | Number and letters of Reference to map |
| Column 2 : | Occupiers |
| Column 3 : | Immediate Lessors |
| Column 4 : | Description of Tenement |
| Column 5 : | Area |
| Not included – | Rateable Annual Valuation of land and buildings and Total Annual Valuation of Rateable property |
| Townland: Edenturcher Ordnance Survey map number: 59 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a | Andrew Larmour | Marquis of Hertford | House,Flour,Flax & Beetling-mills,Land |
60 00 23 |
| 1b | Mary Anne Bell | Andrew Larmour | House and Garden | 00 00 15 |
| 1c | Thomas Walker | same | House and Garden | 00 00 10 |
| 1d | William J. Coburn | same | House and Garden | 00 00 30 |
| 1e | Ellen Bickerstaff | same | House and Garden | 00 01 30 |
| 1f | James Burns | same | House | – |
| 1g | Francis Finn | same | House | – |
| 1h | Robert Dooras | same | House and Garden | 00 00 20 |
| 1i | Allen Courtney | same | House and Garden | 00 20 00 |
| 1j | Robert Magrath | same | House and Garden | 00 00 24 |
| 1k | William Reid & Margaret McQuillan |
same | House, Small Garden | – |
| 2 | James Nelson | Marquis of Hertford | Land | 07 00 00 |
| 3 | Daniel Keyland | same | Land | 00 03 29 |
| 4a | John Crossey | same | House,Offices,Land | 20 02 36 |
| 5A | same | same | same | 03 01 20 |
| 5B | same | same | same | 01 01 10 |
| 6 | William Crossey | same | House,Office,Land | 08 03 00 |
| 7 | same | same | same | 11 02 28 |
| 8 | James Crossey | same | same | 17 03 37 |
| 9A | same | same | same | 00 03 10 |
| 9B | same | same | same | 00 02 20 |
| Total | 144 00 22 | |||
"Glenavy Past and Present"
The following is an extract from Charles Watson’s "Glenavy Past and Present", 1892.
The prosperity of Glenavy was further enhanced by the mills erected by the Lorimer family on the farms at Glenavy and Edinturcher. At the Glenavy farm Mr. James Lorimer possesses a corn mill and beetling engines, under the management of two of his sons, Archibald and Andrew, which give regular employment; and at the Edinturcher farm there is a sawmill and more beetling engines; close to which is Edenvale, where he resides in a pretty thatched house, on the edge of a large pond, over which swans gracefully glide.