Reported events, notices, advertisements and letters. OCR matches need visual checking; place names, vessels and matches to other surnames are excluded from Glasgow surname evidence.
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Reviewed newspaper notices
1 distinct notices from 1 retained pages, earliest first. Reprints of the same notice are merged; 1 pages have saved inline excerpts. Open a notice for its clipping, reading and profile assessment.
How to read these notices
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Auction of mills, machinery, lands and lease interests.
Published 1804-09-10 · The Caledonian Mercury · p. 1
Complete mills auction advertisement. This is retained for the place study; no Glasgow person is named. Source reference: The Caledonian Mercury · 1804-09-10 · p. 1. Open for full size; inspect the original page for context.
What the notice says
Auction advertised for 22 September at the Donegall Arms, Belfast: Larne corn and wheat mills, Kilwaughter corn mill, and Inver flour mills, with machinery, lands and lease interests in James Holmes & Co.’s possession.
Evidence and identity limits
Place-study evidence only. Different mill interests were held under the heirs of the Marquis of Antrim and under the Marquis of Donegall. The passage names no Glasgow surname and does not connect the Glasgow families to these mills or to a seventeenth-century glassworks. Identity review (6 October 2026): 1804 auction of Larne, Kilwaughter and Inver mills held by James Holmes & Co. No Glasgow person is named; place context only.
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Collected references 0
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0 reference items · earliest first
No reference item assigned to this collection yet. This does not mean the archive has no relevant records.
