28/09/2024 at 10:06 am
Thank you for transcribing the Belfast Street Directories. I am currently trying to establish links between Magherafelt Area to Newtownards, via Belfast for some family ancestors. I have Evans family Castledawson 1886, married Belfast 12 March 1907, (Mary Minnie Graham). lived at 61 Craigmore St Belfast (Shown vacant on 1907 directory), then 16 Egeria Street, Dec 1907,a t time of 1st child.
Mary Graham's mother Susan McTear, married at St Annes Cathedral Belfast 1874. Her first child was born at Railway Street Belfast. ( no longer there) Using your street directory I have discovered that it ran alongside the railway out of Gt Victoria St toward Lisburn, at the bottom of Watson Street, which is the street my maternal grandmother lived in during the 1970-1990's ( a small world).