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Katherine McLoughlin

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The advancement of the Quaker movement was constrained by the language barrier, but she knew the Irish language (aka Gaelic) and preached in that language. There were few Quakers but they made an impact. She attracted attention just because she was a woman performing a public role. She had disputes
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Sharp was a successful wool merchant and Quaker in Dublin. He supported William Penn and the establishment of the movement in America. In 1676 she was a guest of Sharp's with about twenty others. Some of these were bound for America, but McLoughlin was bound for the northern counties. She wrote to
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in 1671. He had arrived in Barbados to find Quaker coverts and to establish a following. McLoughlin was a convert and although Quaker women were subject to men's authority they were allowed to preach. McLoughlin became a talented and convincing preacher.
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Sharp in 1678 noting her welcome and the "innocent" people she was meeting. Sharp had already noted her success in creating converts including the wife of a judge.
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to well-off parents and it has been surmised that two of her relations (or even brothers) may have been preachers. She had been educated in
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to marry a Mr Norton when she was sixteen. She had been born near
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The Largest Amount of Good: Quaker Relief in Ireland, 1654–1921.
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"McLoughlin [nic Lochlainn; married name Norton], Katherine (fl. 1671–1679), Quaker preacher"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/67223
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978-0-19-861412-8
UK public library membership

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