General Notes

DATE 30 JUL 1998John Lindley was imprisoned in England for religiousbeliefs.
From "English Ancestral Names - -The Evolution of the Surname fromMedieval Occupations", J R Dolan, Clarkson N Potter Inc. NY 1972. LC#73-139349. p144
The name Lindley stems from the Old French "linier" or "lingier", havingto do with linen. Linen is a product of the flax plant. Someone calledLindley either owned or lived very close to a field of flax.
From "American Surnames", Elsdon C Smith, Chilton Book Co, 1969. Lc#71-85245. p237. Lindley means "glade where flax was grown.
He was beheaded in England for his religous beliefs - he was a
Christian Martyr who believed in a living Christ.
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*The exact date James went to Ireland has not been found, but one source suggested around 1670 when James was in his early 30s.
In 1613 King James called a parliament in Dublin, Ireland and settled it with Protestants, mostly Presbyterians. These settlers were later massacred by the natives. Charles I who succeeded King James married a Catholic and he made many concessions to the Catholics. Oliver Cromwell arrived in Ireland in 1649 and immediately avenged the death of the settlers and set about to Anglicize Ireland. His efforts were not very successful however, and England's hold on Ireland seemed to be more economic than by law. The Quakers moved to the east central part of Ireland in the 1650's, this religion having been founded in England by George Fox in 1652. In June 1652 Burroughs and Hawgill Landed in Dublin bringing Quakerism to the Irish. This being the area to which the Lindley's had moved.
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