Groomsport
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Groomsport is a village and townland near Bangor in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is on the south shore of Belfast Lough and on the north coast of the Ards Peninsula. Groomsport has a population o
Groomsport harbour, March 2008
Robert Blair (moderator)
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Robert Blair was a Scottish Presbyterian minister who became a Westminster Divine and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1646. A supporter of the Scottish Reformation, he r
Groomsport
…port, with 140 men, women and children, to attempt an early trip to North America in 1636 only to be defeated by bad weather after eight weeks at sea. Robert Blair and John Livingstone both wrote about the voyage. By the mid-19th century Groomsport had a relatively large fishing fleet and housed a lifeboat station…
Couston Castle where Robert Blair died.
Emigrants memorial, Larne commemorating the first ship to leave Larne for America in 1717. The Eagle Wing left Groomsport in 1636 and was over halfway there when they turned back. (The Mayflower sailed in 1620).
Westminster Abbey, west facade
Robert Blair's Gravestone