Allie Nickell

@StreetnamesBelf @JJCONeill @Edward__Burke @placenamesni The Shillington family lived in Benburb, and had houses called Tavanagh (Armagh) and Glenmachan (Belfast). Glen Ebor is another house beside Glenmachan, but I can't make a firm link to the Shillingtons. The other names have me stumped so far!

@alliethinks @JJCONeill @Edward__Burke @placenamesni Would you say more?

Tavanagh St officilally named in 1898 along with 7 other streets off Broadway: "Benburb St, Ebor St, Kilburn St, Lecale, Moltke St, Rockview St and Glenmachan St". Anyone know why it was called Tavanagh St? @alliethinks @JJCONeill @Edward__Burke @placenamesni

@JJCONeill @StreetnamesBelf @Edward__Burke @placenamesni @james @BelfastTele This is from Ireland's Saturday Night, 03 September 1932, and Cameronian Drive is not on the list (the earliest ref I can find to it in the newspapers is 1949), but it seems too big a coincidence not to be connected (with perhaps a nod to the Covenanters at the same time).

@alliethinks @StreetnamesBelf @Edward__Burke @placenamesni @james That is the explanation given to Eddie McIlwaine in his Ulster Log in @BelfastTele on 14/4/1983 (William Robb listed as a Civil Servant in Bristow Pk in 1960, seems a credible source).

Cameronian Drive anyone? How does it get its name? @alliethinks @Edward__Burke @JJCONeill @placenamesni @james? #belfaststreetnames

@Edward__Burke @StreetnamesBelf @JJCONeill @placenamesni @james Houston is the name of the family that had Orangefield Demesne and who sold the land to the Belfast Corporation. That seems the more likely link here to me. …belmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2015/01/orange…

@StreetnamesBelf @Edward__Burke @JJCONeill @placenamesni @james It largely follows the line of the original drive through Orangefield Demesne, home of the Houstons. I'll have a look tomorrow to see if there are any connections.

@JJCONeill @StreetnamesBelf @Edward__Burke @samguthrie91 The barque then sank in 1901, around the time the street was named, so it was a familiar name in the news for a while. Seems an odd thing to name a street after, but we do love the Titanic here!

@alliethinks @StreetnamesBelf @Edward__Burke @samguthrie91 Yeah the 'Street' bit has to be a typo - but I meant that the barque Rydalmere's misfortunes at sea in 1894 may have prompted its use for a terrace, then for a street.

Looking for some help with Rydalmere Street off the Donegall Road in South Belfast. It appears in the 1907 Belfast Street Directory - any idea how it got its name? @alliethinks @Edward__Burke @samguthrie91 @JJCONeill? RTs appreciated. #belfaststreetnames

@Edward__Burke @StreetnamesBelf @JJCONeill This might be useful too. maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-irela…

Anyone know the correct way to reference OS maps eg. this: It is hardly OSNI because NI did not exist in 1900-1907! The survey was done in 1901. @alliethinks @JJCONeill @Edward__Burke ?

@StreetnamesBelf @Edward__Burke @samguthrie91 @JJCONeill Think that one may have been a newspaper typo, because it is just Rydalmere (rather than Rydalmere Street) normally.

@alliethinks @Edward__Burke @samguthrie91 @JJCONeill and Rydalmere Street, Ravenhill Road as can be seen from the screenshot which @JJCONeill posted.

@StreetnamesBelf @JJCONeill @Edward__Burke Just to tidy up dates - the school took over the house in 1913, after it was sold by Joseph Hugh Lytle, the son of the John Lytle I mentioned. I can't tell if the Lytles were the ones who named the house.

Looking for some help with Asheigh Manor off Windsor Avenue. Connected with the former school Ashleigh House now Hunterhouse? Any idea about how the school Ashleigh House got its name? @alliethinks @JJCONeill @Edward__Burke? RTs appreciated. #belfaststreetnames

@StreetnamesBelf @JJCONeill @Edward__Burke Yes to the connection with the school (same site). The school took its name from the house it was in, which in 1883 was the home of the Lytle family - presumably John Lytle, seed merchant and several times Lord Mayor or a relative. Where the house name came from though...?

@AineDonnghaile The ones I had (from the early 2000s) were from 'Fife Today' via Legacy dot com, but I've just checked and they aren't there any more - the earliest is a 2009 'in memory' notice. Kenneth's death notice is there.

@alliethinks Thanks Allie. His son Kenneth died, same location, 19 Sep 2022, in case that might lead to something.

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #AncestryHour What was lost has been found. A 1C2R born 1904 in Yorkshire has been elusive for ~10 years. Today John McGarrity is found! Electoral Register marked Absent with Service # and regiment led me to medals and post-war elections. Hooray! /1

@AineDonnghaile I know I have found more recent Fife obits before, a long time ago. If I think of places you might check I'll let you know.

@alliethinks Thanks for looking Allie. If it is the 1952 article about John standing for election, I found that last night. findmypast.com/image-share/6d…

@AineDonnghaile It was.

@AineDonnghaile I can't find an obituary for him - the Fife papers in BNA aren't recent enough, and the online ones don't seem to go back far enough, but I have found an article about him from 1952, if you'd like me to send it to you?

John died in Scotland at the age of 100. There should be an obituary, no? I haven't found one. Help, please! John McGarrity, 17 Oct 2004, in Leven, Fife. findagrave.com/memorial/12167… #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

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During #WW2, silk escape maps were lightweight enough to be tucked away by those in the forces in case they were shot down and needed navigation. They were often turned into garments when the war was over, this c 1945 robe a rare surviving example @rijksmuseum