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Year
|
Event
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1803
|
New
Wesleyan Church built in Castle Lane.
|
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1809
|
Cambric
was bought in Lurgan market at 2 guineas per yard.
|
|
1809
|
A
private of the Seagoe Yeomanry executed on the green of
Portadown where St Mark's Church now stands.
|
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1810
|
|
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1812
|
James
Magowan, Shankill parish clerk of 40 years, dies.
|
|
1814
|
In
a survey of Lurgan, there were 379 houses and a population
of 767
|
|
1819
|
The
Lurgan population was given as 2,207. There were 11 huxters,
2 nailers, 22 publicans, 1 schoolmaster and 1 gent.
|
|
1820
|
The
Obin's estate was sold to the Sparrow family.
|
|
1822
|
Presbyterian
Church built in Edenderry
|
|
1825
|
|
|
1826
|
St.
Marks Church in Portadown was built.
|
|
1828
|
Charles
Brownlow, the first Lord Lurgan was married.
|
|
1829
|
|
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1830
|
|
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1830
|
|
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1830
|
|
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1832
|
|
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1835
|
The
new road form Lurgan to Portadown was opened.
|
|
1837
|
The
tithes of Shankill parish were collected and amount to £210
16s
|
|
1837
|
|
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1839
|
Lurgan
Workhouse is contracted at a cost of £6,130
|
|
1839
|
|
|
1840
|
|
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1841
|
|
|
1841
|
|
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1841
|
The
first paupers are admitted to Lurgan Workhouse.
|
|
1841
|
The
spire for the parish church was completed.
|
|
1842
|
The
Ulster Railway opened at Seagoe and reached Portadown later
the same year.
|
|
1845
|
Woodhouse
Street Station, in Portadown was opened.
|
|
1845
|
|
|
1845
|
|
|
1846
|
Gas
works built for lighting in Lurgan
|
|
1846
|
|
|
1846
|
|
|
1846
|
Lord
Lurgan initiates land drainage schemes as relief work
|
|
1846
|
|
|
1847
|
Gas
was introduced to Lurgan
|
|
1847
|
Mortality
in Lurgan Workhouse peaked, with nearly 100 deaths per week.
|
|
1847
|
The
first Lord Lurgan dies from typhus fever
|
|
1847
|
Greer's
Distillery in Back Lane (now North Street) was obtained
as an auxiliary workhouse .
|
|
1848
|
New
graveyard opened on workhouse grounds
|
|
1848
|
the
Portadown Rail passenger station was moved from Woodhouse
Street to Watson Street
|
|
1848
|
Ulster
Railway extension from Portadown to Armagh was opened
|
|
1849
|
Potatoes
are reintroduced to the workhouse diet
|
|
1849
|
|
|
1850
|
Very
Rev. H Waring Shankill rector died.
|
|
1851
|
Rev
Hamilton Dobbin, Presbyterian minister in Lurgan died.
|
|
1853
|
Lord
Lurgan married.
|
|
1853
|
Lurgan
Young Men's Christian Association established
|
|
1854
|
|
|
1856
|
First
edition of Lurgan Gazette
|
|
1857
|
The
great riot of hand loom weavers takes place in Lurgan
|
|
1857
|
Edenderry
Presbyterian Church is rebuilt.
|
|
1859
|
Lurgan
Mechanics Institute is opened.
|
|
1860
|
Lurgan
First Presbyterian Church reopened after enlargement program
|
|
1860
|
Riots
in Derrymacash
|
|
1861
|
Orangemen
purchased hall in Castle Lane, Lurgan.
|
|
1861
|
Population
of Lurgan is given as 5,528
|
|
1863
|
|
|
1863
|
Fire
at Lurgan Mechanic's Institute
|
|
1863
|
|
|
1864
|
Lurgan
Second Presbyterian Church opens in Hill Street
|
|
1865
|
|
|
1867
|
|
|
1867
|
|
|
1868
|
|
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1869
|
|
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1872
|
Public
Library is established
|
|
1872
|
|
|
1873
|
Publication
of the Protestant Watchman and Lurgan Gazette is discontinued
|
|
1873
|
|
|
1874
|
Lurgan
Weekly News is first published
|
|
1875
|
Rev
John Armstrong dies and is buried in Shankill cemetery.
|
|
1878
|
New
clock and chimes started in Lurgan parish church
|
|
1878
|
Shankill
Buildings purchased by Vestry
|
|
1878
|
Lurgan
Cricket Club is formed
|
|
1879
|
|
|
1881
|
Census
gives the population as 7,850 in Lurgan
|
|
1881
|
Linen
Market held in Lurgan every Friday
|
|
1883
|
Lurgan
Presentation Convent is founded.
|
|
1886
|
Lurgan Rugby Club founded
|
|
1889
|
|
|
1890
|
New Town hall is built
|
|
1891
|
Census
gives population as 8000
|
|
1894
|
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1899
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