James Nicholson

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• Reference Number: 1771

James married Jane in Jan 1700. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 1761

John married Margery Brownlow. Margery (daughter of William Brownlow and Elizabeth) was born in 1702 in Ballwilly, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 1736

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• Reference Number: 1762

William married Isabella Gilbert. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 1763

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• Reference Number: 1162

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William “William the Quaker” Brownlow, son of John Brownlow, was born about 1614 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. He was an early convert to the Society of Friends.

About 1680, he gave the following statement as to why he refused to pay church tithes: “Good is the lord and his love unchangeable and undeclareable in that he hath redeemed me in agood measure from under the false teachers and when I Could noe longer putt into their mouthes they prepared warr against me soe I wittness the prophet Isiah Jeremyah and Ezekill to true prophetts in that they ponounsed woe against them for I never proffitted by them for they fedd themselves and fed nott the flock but with foce and Cruelty have they ruled and I have often suffered the spoyling of my good goods because I Denyed their unjust ways and wages of unrighteousnesse as tithes and offerings and Clark wages and this is my testymony against the preistss and their tithes and I have never payd or Consented to the payment of tithes since I was Convinced of the truth neither Doe I ever intend to Doe.”

He died on 9 January 1702/3 at the age of 89 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. He was buried in Money Hill Friends Burial Ground, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. He married Elizabeth. She died after 1703 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. She was buried in Money Hill Friends Burial Ground, County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

About 1680, she gave the following statement regarding her views on tithes: “According to the understanding and strength god hath given me I never intend to pay tithes because Christ did nott camand itt neither did his apostles practice any such thing. I have never payd tithes since I was Convinced of the truth and with gods assistance I never intend to pay any.”

William married Elizabeth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 4314

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• Reference Number: 1319

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John Brownlow, who went to Ireland, went with three sons, William, John, and Richard....William's line became the Lurgan and titled line....with the male line dying out and Leticia marrying Chamberlain....Our line comes from the second son, John, whose line became known as the Brownlow's of Kilmore...and they were Quakers...and Richard only had female children....Our DNA is the same as those families from the Epworth/Belton area in Lincolnshire where John lived prior to Ireland and there is a paper link to the English titled line from another Brownlow in the Epworth area... So, we are related through the female line at least with the Lurgan Brownlows. Our men look so much like them, it is hard to dismiss. We have no direct line link with the Lurgan line other than being distant cousins and other than sharing a common ancestor with the original John who went to Ireland as the undertaker. So technically, we are cousins...just not through the male line.

John married Duglas Robarts. Duglas (daughter of John Robarts) was born in 1571 in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England; died in Feb 1591 in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 1352