Your editor sometimes has to "press the battle to the gate" 
in this war called genealogical research. Although the late Albert C. 
Myers, in his most excellent "Immigration of the Irish Quakers Into 
Pennsylvania" (1901), published much of Lurgan Quaker Record Book of 
County Armagh, Ireland, we felt that if the original could be examined, 
more might be forthcoming. Hiring a researcher at Belfast, where the 
books are located at the Public Record Office, May Street, to examine 
them, would be less than useful, but very costly. The phrase "a labour 
of love" fits a situation of this kind: It is just nigh impossible to 
expect a stranger to see in records what you are trained to look for 
only by the most intimate and lengthy research of your own. Therefore, 
over a year ago, we sought permission of the Ulster Meeting of the 
Friends, to allow a microfilm to be made in our behalf by the Deputy 
Keeper of the Record Office. Permission was granted, and the film 
delivered early in 1969.
     Of course, we had already obtained photostats of Valentine 
Hollingsworth's own family record, which was published in HR Volume 
One, Number One. We will not repeat it here. The home in England of 
Valentine's father and mother, Henry and Katheran, is not indicated 
in the family record, nor, we are disappointed to say, in any of the 
other parts of the book. But some kind of vague clue might be given 
in the fact that so many of the families came from parts of Yorkshire 
in England, including the Calverts, Wrights, Robsons, Kirks, Moores, 
Chambers and Porters.
     We take here, a number of these examples before moving on to the 
main point of our lead article.

     On page 191 of Lurgan Friends Record Book, is the family record 
of Robert Hoope, "son of John Hoope of Moorsom (neer Gisbrough) in 
Yorkshire in England, and of Isabell his wife, (who) was borne in 
Moorsom aforesaid the eighteenth day of the Eighth month (October -Ed.)
Anno Dom: 1639. he came to Ireland Anno Dom: 1660..." (Etc.)

     Page 193: "Roger Kirk and Elizabeth his wife dwelt in Neshag in 
ye prish of Skelton and in ye County of Yorke Came to ireland with
his Wife and five Children in ye yeare 1658 (being a Couper bv traide) 
since wch time he hath dwelt at Tollygally nere Lurgan in ye County of 
Ardmagh - "

   Page 195: "ffrancis Robson son of John Robson of Facebee in 
Yorkeshire in England, and of Elizabeth his wife was borne in facebee 
aforesaid, about in ye yeare 1607 (was brought into Ireland being 
but young)"

    Page 199: "Robart Chambers, son of Thomas Chambers, of mooresome 
nere gisbrough in Yorkeshire in England, and of Jane his wife, was 
borne in mooresome, aforesd, in ye ninth month Anno Domini 1646, - 
he Came to ireland Anno Domini 1661..."

     Page 200: "Thomas Calvart, son of John Calvart of Mooresome neere 
Gisbrough in Yorkshire in England, and of Grace, his wife, was borne 
at Lygakory nere Lurgan in the Countv of Ardmagh in Ireland --"