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Business & Commerce Records information for County Armagh and places above it in the hierarchy
- Alphabetical index to the names contained in the premium entitlement lists of the trustees of the linen and hempen manufactures of Ireland: also known by the short title: 1796 spinning wheel survey of Ireland, All-Ireland Heritage, Vienna, Va., c1986 (12 microfiches, All-Ireland Heritage microfiche series)
- Brief history of the Irish linen industry, from the Irish Linen Guild
- Fair towns in Ireland, 1834, from Jane Lyons' From Ireland web site
- Lindsay, Henry L., An essay on the agriculture of the county of Armagh, John M'Watters, 17, English-Street, Armagh, 1836
- Records held at the PRONI
- Business records, an introduction
- Dundrum, Co. Armagh, blacksmiths and scutch mill documents, PRONI ref. D/2140
- Fruitfield Jam Factory, Co. Armagh papers, PRONI ref. T/3791
- The Greer, Lowry and Alexander Papers
- Turner Robert & Co., ironmongers and coal merchants, Armagh papers, PRONI ref. MIC/83
- Waddell, whiting works, Maralin, Co. Armagh papers, PRONI ref. D/1655
- Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
- Calvert, Leslie, Reflections on Irish Linen, Vol. 5 No. 1
- Lewis, Elizabeth (with a contribution on conservation by Marion Lamb), An 18th Century Linen Damask Tablecloth from Ireland, Vol. 6 No. 1
- Lutton, S.C., The linen trade of County Armagh since the turn of the century, Vol. 2 No. 3
- Lutton, Samuel C., Background history of Linen from the flax in the field to finished linen cloth, Vol. 8 No. 1
- McElroy, Ken, The Scutch Mill, Vol. 7 No. 1
- TNA provide:
- The Association of Business Historians creates and disseminates knowledge about business history.
- TNA hold some railway company records. (Ancestry provides subscription access to the TNA's railway employment records 1833-1958, from a number of historic railway companies.)
- Some employers' and trade association archives are held by Warwick University's Modern Record Centre.
- Trade directories can provide some information (including advertisements) about businesses, large and small, through the years.
- Railway Work, Life and Death - records of railway worker accidents in Britain between 1911 and 1915 - "a joint initiative between the University of Portsmouth and the National Railway Museum (NRM)".
- The John Lewis Memory Store: ". . . a living history of John Lewis & Partners. Through the site, people share their memories, photos, maps and information about John Lewis & Partners, past and present."
- United Kingdom Cemetery Records, from Interment.net.
