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498 » Ken W Allan Location: Australia Date: 01.08.2008 Time: 08:39:38 Rating:

Great site, hoping somebody can help? I am looking for ancestors by the surname of Allan, specifically Robert Allan born c1820 Annaghilly South, Clones. Keep up the good work Ken

497 » john&sally Location: Melbourne Australia Date: 30.07.2008 Time: 06:51:40 Rating:

h I Lennon/Wylie just to thank you once again for all your help keep up the good work all the best john&sally

496 » Kathleen Morrison Location: Newtownabbey Date: 29.07.2008 Time: 00:08:57 Rating:

Any family members of MARGARET GRAHAM [nee. ADAMS] who lived at 66 Tennent Street, Belfast in 1930, please get in touch.

495 » Mike Tinsley Location: Google Date: 28.07.2008 Time: 22:32:54 Rating:

Thank you for presenting the information in such a useful way. I have found several references to family members in it. Primarily Wakefield Haughton Dixon (Snr and Jnr), of Belfast. I am trying to pinpoint his father, who I believe came from Shropshire in the UK. Certainly Wakefield married in Shrewsbury, but was born in Ireland.

494 » Thomas Edward McDonald Date: 28.07.2008 Time: 06:12:11 Rating:

Thank you for this most interesting website, my family has a long standing presence in Knox, Scotshouse Co. Monaghan. I am looking for more information that predates what has already been researched about the Family of John McDonald of Knox Scots house. I will continue to use your site for my research. He is said to have come from Scotland about 1799 so I am looking for information about him. Thomas McDonald Martha's Vineyard , MA USA

493 » Dave Location: Moffet CA Date: 26.07.2008 Time: 22:35:08 Rating:

Nice site , a cross reference by name for global search would be nice, but thank you for what you have done so far and keep up the fine work. best of luck (dja.)

492 » John & Sally Bruce Location: Melborne, Australia Date: 25.07.2008 Time: 13:41:45 Rating:

H I , Lennon/Wylie Many thanks for your help Wonder if you could help us again? We need to know who lived at 98 Mayo street from 1945 - 1960 If you can help that would be fantastic Sally and John

491 » John Hamilton Location: Belfast Date: 24.07.2008 Time: 07:46:00 Rating:

Thank you for the site. It has been a great help particularly in locating householders and streets in Belfast that have long disappeared.

490 » Andrew Duffy Location: Greenock Scotland Date: 21.07.2008 Time: 17:01:41 Rating:

First visit to your site now know where my grandparents stayed in 1894 looking for anybody interested in the family of Robert Gilmore and Elizabeth Menary.

489 » Kathleen Morrison Location: Newtownabbey Date: 20.07.2008 Time: 11:24:59 Rating:

looking for any relatives of John Guerin who married Elizabeth Rafferty 4th August 1919 Belfast.

488 » Edna Austin Location: W. London Date: 19.07.2008 Time: 13:50:25 Rating:

Thanks for doing the site. I have found it useful in tracing the Irish side of my family. My father was born in Cambrai St, Belfast in 1915. Both my grandparents were living in Whiteabbey before that, one side G. Grandfather Alexander Finlay , a bleacher with the Whiteabbey bleaching company, was from Belfast. I'm interested in tracing the Finlays and McCanns in Belfast, before 1877. My Gt Gt grandfathers were a Thomas Finlay (labourer) and Robert McCann a bleacher. Alexander F was living at Broadway, Falls Road, when he married Margaret McCann in 1877. I'm happy to correspond and share info with anyone researching the same line. I am in the London area and have access to London archives and records.

487 » Paul Withers Location: Mid Wales Date: 18.07.2008 Time: 14:10:35 Rating:

So far I have drawn a complete blank, but that's research, even a negative can be informative. Congratulations ! Keep adding, your efforts are really appreciated Paul Withers.

486 » john Bruce & sally Bruce Location: Melbourne Australia Date: 18.07.2008 Time: 07:45:25 Rating:

incorrect detail 1907 14 Courtrai Street & 1910 156 Leopold street should be mc anally not McNally thanks Reply: Hi John and Sally, Your email address is bouncing, I will retry it again a few times.... Hi John & Sally, Thank you for the guestbook entry 1925 not there 1930 Mayo Street 98. McCabe, J., labourer 1940 to 1944 Mayo Street 98. McCabe, Mrs. M. (gone 1945) I have added a note to the 2 McNally addresses that you sent me the corrections for, they were actually spelt as McNally in the book but I like to show the proper name when possible so Thank you for that information. Lennon/Wylie

485 » john Bruce & sally Bruce Location: Melbourne Australia Date: 18.07.2008 Time: 07:12:44 Rating:

trying to find john mc cabe of 98 mayo street Belfast 13 if anyone can help that would be great

484 » Carole Location: South Africa/Holland Date: 17.07.2008 Time: 15:40:55 Rating:

What a wonderful help to all of us who have no memories of our parents/grandparents and great grandparents. You are doing a magnificent job. love Cara

483 » Jan Location: London Date: 16.07.2008 Time: 21:00:56 Rating:

A really lovely friendly site, so much to look at.....a labour of love.

482 » David Campbell Location: Born Donegall Road, Belfast 1931. Date: 16.07.2008 Time: 05:55:13 Rating:

Very much enjoyed the Belfast Street Directory of 1910 in that I was able to locate both my grandfathers homes in Belfast and my wife's grandfather in Gilford. Well done Lennon!!!! David Campbell, Australia.

481 » Lynn Foster Location: Little Rock, AR Date: 15.07.2008 Time: 06:03:06 Rating:

I just discovered your website! My grandmother was born at 13 Montgomery St. in Belfast, and I can't wait to see the M streets in the 1901 Directory! Thank you so much for doing this!

480 » Pat McKee Mulvey Location: Belfast, now New York Date: 15.07.2008 Time: 03:05:48 Rating:

Thank you. Your information is especially valuable to people like myself who are passing on the family history to our children who have a great interest and love of their heritage.

479 » Patrick H. McCaw Date: 11.07.2008 Time: 11:03:34 Rating:

Your work is of immense help to people looking for ancestors

478 » Allen McKee Location: B Belfast L Newtownards N. Ireland Date: 11.07.2008 Time: 08:35:43 Rating:

Thank you for a great web site which has proved useful in locating some family members. I have located on my fathers side my Great Great Grandfather James McKee married in Comber 1863 to an Agnes Ralph children James Flors Andrew also on my mothers side back to a Patrick McAfee who lived in Ardoyne area and died about 1893. Keep up the great work

477 » Ged WALSH Date: 10.07.2008 Time: 17:26:57 Rating:

Many thanks, doing stuff on the south Dublin area

476 » Maxwell Ledlie Location: Bangor, Co Down Date: 09.07.2008 Time: 17:02:29 Rating:

Interested in the history of the Ledlie family.

475tommy sleith Location: belfast Date: 07.07.2008 Time: 20:16:26 Rating:

truely fantastic.well done.

474 » Sid McDowell Location: Lisburn Date: 06.07.2008 Time: 23:06:31 Rating:

Brilliant site full of useful information. And you had the courage and vision to set the site up when others such as proni should have been doing it years ago

473 » Kathleen Morrison Location: Newtownabbey, county Antrim, northern Ireland Date: 05.07.2008 Time: 17:06:14 Rating:

brilliant site. hope someone somewhere is able to help. am looking any info on my grandfathers family. Henry [my grandfather] Victor, Lancelot, Ruth, Rachel, Rebecca and Margaret ADAMS came to Belfast from CAVAN in the early 1900's. no trace of anyone but my grandfather. the only record is his marriage to my grandmother Frances Brown in McCrory  mem. on 07/12/1918. my father Joe remembers his father taking him to work one day to a place called Pembreton Salts, dad thinks it was on or near the Shankill. any information would be a huge help.

472 » Noelle Quinn Location: Belfast Date: 04.07.2008 Time: 21:04:30 Rating:

Thank you for all your hard work Lennon/Wylie - this is a brilliant site and the links are great too. It has proved invaluable to me in my family research. Keep up the good work - please!

471 » Gordon Coulter Location: Belfast Date: 04.07.2008 Time: 12:15:27 Rating:

Retired, new to internet, working in short bursts from public library. Just discovered your fascinating site and will come back to it from time to time, as will take time to digest! Will check whether you have a street address to which I could deliver my 1958 and 1968 directories if they are of interest to you (for scanning) as I think you are providing an invaluable service. Think I also have Bangor Spectator Directory c.1960/62.

470 » Ronnie Butler Location: Belfast Date: 01.07.2008 Time: 22:30:07 Rating:

Brilliant, to find ancestors address's.

469 » Brian Lillie Location: East Belfast Date: 29.06.2008 Time: 20:34:51 Rating:

Thank you for a brilliant website, thank you for your time and dedication on looking into our past

468 » Richard Law Location: Grapevine, TX USA Date: 28.06.2008 Time: 21:45:42 Rating:

Thanks for a very helpful site, and all your work. Through your site, I was able to locate my grandfathers employer (H. McMaster & Co) who wrote a letter of recommendation prior to his departure for the USA.

467 » Dr Robert Stephen Adrain Location: Belfast Date: 28.06.2008 Time: 12:01:22 Rating:

Thanks for your magnificent tribute to my lovely Daddy Sergent William Adrain MM.

466 » William Hick Location: Engadine, Sydney, Australia Date: 28.06.2008 Time: 08:05:52 Rating:

I am just starting to research my mother's family. Mary Jane McCormick from Utility Street Belfast, born 10/05/1913. I can't find her parents yet (Robert and Emma McCormick nee Ellison or Allison), but I will spend some time looking - probably a lot of time. Thanks for a great site. Regards to all my Irish relations (that I have yet to find), Bill Hick

465 » Sam Watkinson Location: Lancashire Date: 26.06.2008 Time: 22:17:16 Rating:

Thanks for all the work you've put into an excellent site.

464 » David Beverley & Kathleen Cusins Location: now Plymouth UK, previously South Africa Date: 26.06.2008 Time: 21:02:13 Rating:

T his site has been more than useful --fantastic! My wife, Kathleen has found relatives both in Belfast and elsewhere in Ulster. Her father's side were from Scotland in 1870 odd while mother, a Liggett, were long time Ulster dwellers. We keep on searching.

463 » Ernest mc bride Location: Lisburn Date: 23.06.2008 Time: 21:03:41 Rating:

my grand parents William mc bride and his wife Emily nee mc aver both came from derryoge Kilkeel and were married in Mourne Presbyterian church in1885 any information would be welcome.

462 » Ernest mc bride Location: Lisburn Date: 23.06.2008 Time: 20:39:46 Rating:

enjoyed browsing very much

461 » margart geertsema nee cleland Location: b. Belfast 1950 Live in Australia Date: 23.06.2008 Time: 13:59:17 Rating:

it seems that every name I type in of my ancestors, lemmonwylie pops up with the same. My g/father was Hans Cleland b. 1874. His father was Robert Cleland and mother Isabella Montgomery. Robert lived at Creevycarnanon, Kilmore and Isabella came from Rademon. Roberts father was Hans and possibly married to Sarah? All lived in that area. When Robert died, Isabella married Thomas Coburn and had 2 sons Samuel and David and perhaps more.

460 » Tomas O' Carthaigh Location: Tullamore Date: 20.06.2008 Time: 20:40:36 Rating:

Loved the poems section, will be linking to it at the next site update. Read my poem "On Sighting Sandy Row" and the poems inspired by the Waever Poets. Who wrote the Bard of Armagh on your site? I loved that one most of all!!!

459 » Lorraine Kidd Location: Saintfield Date: 20.06.2008 Time: 20:18:17 Rating:

Excellent site very interesting

458 » Patricia Byers Location: Tasmania, Australia Date: 19.06.2008 Time: 12:09:12 Rating:

I'm a granddaughter of Henry McKee, Derryogue, Kilkeel. He went to New Zealand to farm in 1914 (just before the outbreak of WW1). His family was to follow soon after but were not able to because of the war. They eventually got to NZ in 1920 on the Athenic. Sadly, Henry died in 1922, leaving a widow and four children. My father was Harry, the eldest; the others were Don, Eleanor, and Ernest. Eleanor, the last to die, died only this year. They used to love remembering their early childhood in Ireland. I have written down a lot of those early memories.

457 » Rosemary Colgan Kesic Location: New Jersey, United States of America Date: 19.06.2008 Time: 03:15:42 Rating:

Looking for information about my grandfather, James Colgan son of John Colgan and Mary Jane Gordon. Grandfather born 1894 in Gortnaghey, Dungiven. Grandmother Roseanne McCloskey died in 1931. Grandfather went to England and had a child with another woman but don't know any more. Sound familiar? Please contact me. Thanks!

456 » Fran Lennon Location: Hereford UK Date: 18.06.2008 Time: 22:11:30 Rating:

Hi I have just started trying to track down my own particular branch of Lennon's - we are from the Wicklow, Portadown area. Your website has inspired me.

455 » H. Entwistle Date: 18.06.2008 Time: 14:48:53 Rating:

Most helpful. Researching a family Isles who later emigrated to BC . Canada

454 » Sandra Guntley Location: Netherlands Date: 18.06.2008 Time: 06:24:06 Rating:

192 » Margaret Interesting, my great grandfather was Frederick Guntley, all I know about him was he lived in London

453 » Brian Adams Location: Coleraine, Co. Derry, Northern Ireland Date: 18.06.2008 Time: 01:32:22 Rating:

Brilliant and well laid out site with easy to read menus -well done. I am trying to research HILLIS on my mums side (25 Parkgate gardens, Connswater, Belfast) and ADAMS on my dads side, when we all used to live at 36 Shuttle Hill Coleraine then 36 Willow Drive, Coleraine. All help greatly appreciated. from Ex-Gunner and signaller (40/70 bofars) 206Bty (102Regt U&S Lt AD Bty) RA (V) (Coleraine)... Reply: Hi Brian, your email address is bouncing...... what I tried sending you..... Hi Brian, Thank you for the praise re my site, always happy to hear its easy to use not there 1943 1944 to 1949 Parkgate Gardens 25. Hillis, Robert J. 1950 to 1968 Parkgate Gardens 25. Hillis, Mrs. (Elizabeth, 1951) 1970 to 1979 Parkgate Gardens 25. Hillis, Miss Agnes C. 1980 just says occupied at number 25 Parkgate Street 1981 says just Hillis at number 25 " " 1984 to 1989 Parkgate Street 25. Hillis, Ms. D. no sign of the Adams in Coleraine but the Counties aren't as well covered resident-wise and in later years not at all Lennon/Wylie

452 » Wendy King Location: Atlanta, Georgia Date: 18.06.2008 Time: 01:09:40 Rating:

Looking for McMillen (or McMullen) family info.

451 » Charmane (nee McCready) Scott Location: South Africa Date: 14.06.2008 Time: 01:22:36 Rating:

Searching, searching, first time on your site.... Looking for McCready & McIlroy

450 » Marie Parker Location: New Zealand Date: 13.06.2008 Time: 09:56:59 Rating:

Excellent information I have not been able to view online before. Thank you.

449 » Hamilton, George Location: Belfast, The Mount Date: 12.06.2008 Time: 21:42:08 Rating:

interesting ok, but not a big help

448 » Anne M Hawkins Location: Belfast Date: 12.06.2008 Time: 15:10:42 Rating:

We are hoping to trace our relatives. Just beginning this exciting journey. Many thanks.

447 » Ally Quinn Location: Belfast Date: 11.06.2008 Time: 23:42:08 Rating:

Great site with lot of info and guests. So can anyone of them give me any information about a William Dunbar who lived at 25 Cawnpore Street Belfast in 1920's. He may have been married to a Sheila O'Hanlon and are probably my grandfather and grand mother.

446 » Robert Magill Location: Coleraine Date: 11.06.2008 Time: 17:09:41 Rating:

I am originally from the Shankill Road in Belfast and am researching both my late mother's and my father's ancestry. I find your site very informative and has been very useful to me. I look forward to the other street directories and census documents coming on line. My mother was a Ritchie from Sugarfield Street and my father a Magill, obviously, from Eighth Street on the Shankill.

445 » Ms Mcclung Location: USA Date: 10.06.2008 Time: 14:31:24 Rating:

Thank you for your generosity and fine web site. It is valuable for my research for the father of Charles Mcclung who had a son named Arthur Holmes Mcclung who was born in the USA in March 1872. I am told that father lived on 2nd or 4th St in Edinbrough and was a marine architect who later died on his return from America. Again, I appreciate this chance to visit!

444 » Danae Michael Location: South of Tucson, Arizona, USA Date: 10.06.2008 Time: 06:02:07 Rating:

For the past 5-6 years, I have been researching the Hutchison family from the Belfast area. Because the family was poor and uneducated, there is very little info on them. Maybe their vital stats were burned in the 1922 fire. The three members that migrated to N. America claim to be from the "Belfast" area however there is nothing simple in pinpointing a district, parish, etc. I continue to search and wish I could go to the graveyards. Thanks! Haven't started to check out you URL yet.

443 » Elizabeth Location: New Zealand Date: 09.06.2008 Time: 08:42:19 Rating:

Thank you for all your hard work

442 » June Location: Portstewart, County Londonderry, N. Ireland Date: 07.06.2008 Time: 19:23:05 Rating:

My father, John Conley, served with the 8th Belfast HAA Regiment in Burma. I found the site amazing, and I was able to view unseen photographs of my dad. Sadly, he passed away in 1955, aged just 45 years old. He left my mother, sadly also now passed away, (1998) with myself and two older sisters to bring up. I wish my mother could have seen the site and the pictures. Thank you for doing so much wonderful work to keep the memory of my dad, and so many like him, alive. I salute you. Kind regards, J. Johnston. (nee Conley.) Reply: Hi June your email address is incomplete and my father would like to talk to you about your dad. Lennon/Wylie

441 » Sean woods Location: Belfast Date: 07.06.2008 Time: 17:50:46 Rating:

couldn't have wished for anything better helped a great deal thank you very much

440 » Sharon Ronaghan Location: Connecticut, USA Date: 07.06.2008 Time: 13:15:46 Rating:

Searching for any of the spellings of the name Ronaghan, which includes: Runnigan, Runnighan, Runihan, Ranahan, Ranagan, Renehan, Renegan, Renahan, Ronahan, Ronagan and more. The name was misspelled so many different ways when the families immigrated to North America. Although I found some family in Tipperary and Monaghan, I have no link to research there and I have found some in Belfast. Some also shipped out of Belfast. Any help would be appreciated as travel to Ireland is not an option. Thank you for a fantastic site and for all your hard work.

439 » Maureen Location: New Jersey USA Date: 03.06.2008 Time: 00:12:40 Rating:

Thank you! I have been transcribing a tape that I made in 1987 of my father talking about growing up in Belfast. My father's name was Henry Joseph Reilly born February 26, 1905, moved to the USA in 1929. His father was John Reilly (not Rilley) of 89 New Lodge Road. It gave me such pleasure to see something of my father's family in print. I miss him.

438 » Samuel David Armour Location: Belfast Date: 02.06.2008 Time: 17:04:30 Rating:

Good site just spotted my father and Robbie Boyd in one of your pictures.

437 » ELIZABETH Date: 01.06.2008 Time: 22:09:11 Rating:

THANKS FOR ALL YOUR GREAT WORK .

436 » Stephen Sherlock Location: London. England Date: 01.06.2008 Time: 09:02:55 Rating:

A very interesting site, thank you. I've got Sarah Lennon born c1841 Ireland. She married Patrick Sherlock 11 Feb 1854 in St. Andrew, Westland Row, Dublin. The only possibility I've found so far for Sarah in Ireland is from the IGI Sarah Jane Lennon born 27 Apr 1841 Ballygowan, Antrim, Ireland. At the moment I don't know what records are available in Ireland so I'm up against a brick wall. Best wishes Stephen

435 » Garry Location: London Date: 31.05.2008 Time: 18:21:39 Rating:

What a lot of fantastic work! Had just a bit of difficulty navigating on the site between Belfast and Dublin - my family seems to have migrated between the two. Keep up the great work.

434 » ARTHUR Wm ARMSTRONG Location: EAST BELFAST Date: 29.05.2008 Time: 14:05:54 Rating:

GREAT SITE,8 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER DOING A PROJECT, A GREAT HELP AND VERY INTERESTING. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. I'VE MADE THIS A FAVORITE FOR FAMILY TREE NOW, LOOKING FOR MEMEL STREET FOR AGES (WHERE I WAS BORN) THANX A MILLION.

433 » Robert McCartney Location: Belfast Date: 27.05.2008 Time: 22:54:52 Rating:

wonderful site recommended to all my friends.

432 » Keith fowler Location: Belfast Date: 27.05.2008 Time: 17:49:34 Rating:

found my great grandfather in auburn st Donegal pass 1907

431 » Brian Todd Location: Belfast Date: 26.05.2008 Time: 19:46:12 Rating:

Thank you for the immense of work. The only disappointment was when you had not yet got round to the Ts Having hunted all the Street Directories I could find your web page is an additional resource.

430 » Carolyn Kelly Date: 25.05.2008 Time: 17:38:50 Rating:

What a wonderful site! This information has helped me a great deal to move on with the family tree.

429 » Robert Davidson Carruthers Location: East Belfast Date: 20.05.2008 Time: 21:20:40 Rating:

Great site. Very Absorbing. Confirmed a number of family locations Really helps when I can't actually visit PRONI. Keep up the great work, Robert

428 » Bryan Location: New Zealand Date: 20.05.2008 Time: 04:20:18 Rating:

Captivating site. But you left out my Patrick LOGAN and Catherine FARRELL who emigrated to Australia in 1844. So I will keep looking. Mary Ann LOGAN (maybe a niece) says she was born in Belfast, which is the only clue beyond a County that I have! Best Wishes. Reply: aw Brian, I am sorry Have you tried Proni yet, they have scanned all their directories pre 1900 and they are searchable..... http://proni.aetopia.com/scripts/WebObjects.dll/StreetDirectories Lennon/Wylie

427 » Isabel Cosgrove Location: Scotland Date: 19.05.2008 Time: 15:00:55 Rating:

Well done, you have solved a family mystery! My great grandfather and great grand aunt seemingly lived at either 122 Castlereagh Road or 122 Ellenborough Terrace. I found that Ellenborough Terrace is/was a terrace on Castlereagh Road so both addresses are for the same house! I think my family must have lived there much later than 1907 - certainly Martha Morton aka Dobson was there in 1920 and her brother John Cosgrove died there in 1921.

426 » Roy Jones Location: uk Date: 17.05.2008 Time: 21:51:31 Rating:

I have come across an Indian silver highly decorated plate engraved on the reverse with " 1877, Gulmurg local handicap, CHOCOLATE ridden by Major Auchinleck" Gulmurg was later changed to gulmarg. I note the Major Thomas Auchinleck , JP, DL, on your site of Crevenagh house, Omagh in 1880. If anyone is researching the family and is interested, please get in touch.

425 » Barbara Location: Belfast Date: 17.05.2008 Time: 20:49:10 Rating:

Great help researching all my family

424 » Marilyn Location: Ontario Canada Date: 15.05.2008 Time: 04:40:03 Rating:

I am researching my McDowell family and would love to know more about Loftus McDowell who was born in Belfast, about 1842 I was able to find him on your street directory in 1880. Thanks

423 » denis Wilson Pollock Location: Belfast Date: 14.05.2008 Time: 11:31:05 Rating:

I discovered your site by accident and have neglected my business all morning. Congratulations on a wonderful and fascinating site. I have to get back to work while there is still light, but I will be back just like McArthur. Thank you , Denis Pollock

422 » ROBERT LOWRY Location: PORTADOWN Date: 11.05.2008 Time: 13:40:45 Rating:

E XCELLENT SITE. TRYING TO TRACE MY FAMILY ROOTS IN PEVERIL ST, ORMEAU RD. ANYONE CAN HELP IT WOULD BE APPRECIATED

421 » Joseph Mitchell Location: Scotland Date: 08.05.2008 Time: 11:47:11 Rating:

My Grandfather (Major Jo Mitchell) commanded a portion of the 8th HAA in Burma and I am keen to trace any of his old comrades. He is now sadly dead (1988). Reply: Hello Joseph, Can you email me directly please, your email address here doesn't seem to be functional my father remembers your grandfather very very well Lennon/Wylie

420 » George Harrison Location: Holywood Co. Down Date: 04.05.2008 Time: 12:23:19 Rating:

J ust found your site. Looking forward to spending many hours tracing family ties

419 » Patricia Bloor Location: Shropshire Date: 03.05.2008 Time: 17:50:40 Rating:

Trying to trace relatives. Grandfather Hugh Kelly sugar boiler unity street Belfast 1914 living in north queen street by 1920. He married Sarah Anderson and had a son Hugh, John Joseph and a daughter Augusta 1914 1916and1920 respectively. May have had other children. Any information would be wonderful! Here's hoping. I have lived in England for past 20 years so locating actual records is difficult.

418 » Margaret Craig Location: uk Date: 02.05.2008 Time: 19:15:31 Rating:

Wonderful site, so much information, I haven't been to Belfast but my father grew up there after leaving Downpatrick and my mother came from Antrim. I still have a lot to read on this site and I am enjoying every detail. Thank you. Margaret Lunnon (nee Craig) (Blair)

417 » Martin Ewins Location: Belfast Date: 02.05.2008 Time: 09:16:07

Incorrect Detail! 1907 Street Directory has: Fallswater Street off Falls Road 53. Edwins, Joseph, postman Should be 53. Ewins, Joseph, postman Reply: Hi Martin, You are absolutely correct, I did type that as Edwins instead of Ewins, I've amended it, I'm glad you saw that, Thank You :o)

416 » George Kirkpatrick. Location: Whiterock BC Canada. Date: 30.04.2008 Time: 17:56:22 Rating:

Still getting as much enjoyment from your marvellous site Lennon/Wylie as from when first I found it last year. Cheers George.

415 » Timm McBride Location: Portland, OR US Date: 30.04.2008 Time: 16:24:10 Rating:

Was searching for information on the Fountainville Presbyterian Church. I have a book from my Grandfather - Robert McBride - and the inscription notes that is was signed by the Superintendent of the Sabbath School; John McConnell in 1910. Trying to put together the history of who he was before he came to the states. A good check point for me, here on this site... Thanks

414 » Angela Marchant Location: England Date: 30.04.2008 Time: 14:50:07 Rating:

Came across your site while researching ancestry. Interested in Barrack Hill, Cavan, my husbands mother born there. Wanted to know what it looked like in 1910. Are there any Callans reading this, ancestors Joseph, Married to Kathleen Wallace and child Beatrice. Keep going with the site. Hard to find links to Ireland.

413 » Lisa Tuttle Location: Scotland, via Texas Date: 30.04.2008 Time: 13:13:30 Rating:

I'm looking forward to exploring your fascinating site! So far, I was delighted to discover the 1819 Belfast directory, even though I can't find anyone I can be certain is an ancestor... I'm trying to find the parents & other family of JOHN BRUCE (born about 1805 in I'm pretty sure, County Antrim) and his wife MARGARET LOWRY (born about 1810) who emigrated to the US (Baltimore) about 1833. He was a stone mason in Maryland, and a member of the Baptist Church, but I'm still struggling to find out something about their earlier days in Ireland.

412 » John Booth Location: Oakland, CA Date: 30.04.2008 Time: 03:29:11 Rating:

I am just looking around for Laverty or McDonnell around 1814 from Cushendun or Cushendale. And found your site. You sure have put a lot of effort into this.

411 » Elaine Stewart Location: Antrim Date: 29.04.2008 Time: 13:37:32 Rating:

What a great site ...... wealth of info available amazing congratulations to you

410 » John Goodfellow Location: Belfast Date: 29.04.2008 Time: 13:04:54 Rating:

I've just had your site recommended to me by a Family History Group. What a wealth of information - don't know how you get the time ! Thank you.

409 » Sean McCurley Location: Grafton Ma.USA Date: 26.04.2008 Time: 23:11:48 Rating:

Great Stuff!

408 » Barbara Location: Lisburn Date: 26.04.2008 Time: 22:41:40 Rating:

You have achieved something amazing. Your dedication means so much to so many. The results - priceless!!!

407 » tom Ferguson Location: Brisbane, Australia Date: 26.04.2008 Time: 12:05:31 Rating:

Excellent discovery - My Grandparents (Sarah and Tom Ferguson) lived at No. 22 Sevastopol Street up until the early 1950s. When my parents Phyllis & Hugh Ferguson took over the residence at No 22 Sevastopol St. From my early childhood memories I can recall the surnames of some long term residents (and their descendants) of Sevastopol St, those are the names dating back to the era of 1907 you have listed ie. Joyce and Crossey who lived at numbers 38 and 40 respectively. I lived there from 1955 to 1976 when I emigrated to Australia.

406 » Frances [ rice] Oakes Location: Carlow street Shankill road Date: 25.04.2008 Time: 12:11:36 Rating:

I was wondering if any one knows of the Rice family from Carlow Street. or the Eakins family from Maria Place please get in touch with me

405 » C. Alcck Location: England Date: 24.04.2008 Time: 17:39:55 Rating:

Exceptionally good site. Will definitely visit again. Lots of info that is hard to find elsewhere.

404 » Gerry and Annie McCarthy Location: North Wales Date: 24.04.2008 Time: 07:55:01 Rating:

We have been shown your website by Tina Taylor, and we look forward to spending many happy hours looking for the McCarthy ancestry

403 » Christina Taylor Location: n. Wales Date: 23.04.2008 Time: 22:54:49 Rating:

back again wonderful sight just come back from Belfast were I was born left in 1963. got my grans marriage certificate Annie Luby to Thomas Craig her fathers name was Francis Luby he was a sailor. ill keep trying to find out more I know I had a g/granny paterson but nothing else about her. thanks to your hard work I . feel I will get somewhere eventually . my g/dad Craig was a soldier he is buried in Milltown cemetery some were

402 » Allena Location: Northern Ireland Date: 22.04.2008 Time: 21:59:48 Rating:

I cannot count the number of times I have ended up at your site when searching for clues and information about times past. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to making history more accessible, especially for the amateur genealogist! Wonderful!

401 » cath mansfield Location: Cheshire England Date: 22.04.2008 Time: 19:32:20 Rating:

Thank you for all the hard work that has gone into this. I know a little more about Flax growers and I am about to investigate the Linen Hall . To see the name McGeagh gladdens my sometimes muddled mind!!! Now all I have to do is find McGeagh and Paul marriage and I'm finding a light!!!!!

400 » Pat Patterson Location: Winnipeg via Belfast Date: 22.04.2008 Time: 02:54:21 Rating:

Stumbled across your site through the Belfast Forum. I really like the site, you have done a lot of work. I'm originally from Belfast now living in Canada for the last 50 years. I have been doing some searching on my family. I find the site a great research tool. All the best from Winnipeg. Keep up the good work.

399 » Kevin Connolly Location: Belfast Date: 22.04.2008 Time: 00:05:43 Rating:

What a fantastic site! I have traced the occupants of my extended family's hometown back to 1851 - before I discovered this site the 1940s was the earliest list I ever saw. I am REALLY enjoying logging on and exploring the past - thanks!

398 » Maurice McCoy Location: Inverness Scotland Date: 20.04.2008 Time: 08:03:09 Rating:

Fantastic site, obviously an awful lot of work has gone into it. I've had a great time cross referencing the 1907 directory with addresses from the 1912 Ulster covenant. Great work !!

397 » Rebecca Johnston Location: Nanaimo, BC, Canada Date: 19.04.2008 Time: 03:58:04 Rating:

Thanks for this wonderful site! I was able to find my great grandparents, John and Margaret Latta, in the 1910 street directory and covenant signature records.

396 » Beverley Lennon Location: Ballyclare Date: 17.04.2008 Time: 20:54:41 Rating:

T his is so exciting!!! Came across your website only to find we are related. Please email me and I will explain. I can add to your family tree!!! Reply: Hi Beverley, I got your email and answered, I hope you got it ok, Hotmail is a bit flakey sometimes. don't give up people, I've been looking for this branch of the family since day one :o)

395 » Colin Location: Bangor Co. Down Date: 17.04.2008 Time: 15:21:11 Rating:

Lennon/Wylie, thanks for the help the other day grrrrrrrreat site

394 » Yvonne Fulton Location: co Down originally now NZ Date: 17.04.2008 Time: 09:29:46 Rating:

Came across your site by chance and what a great site it is. So far I have found it really interesting and I am hopeful of finding it most informative. thank you

393 » William McDermott Location: Co Down Date: 16.04.2008 Time: 23:14:03 Rating:

Thanks for an extremely useful site

392 » Tracy Magill Location: Belfast Date: 14.04.2008 Time: 22:37:51 Rating:

An excellent site. Keep up the great work!

391 » P Tedder Location: Surrey England Date: 14.04.2008 Time: 11:31:48 Rating:

Great site. Found someone I was looking for. Thanks

390 » Shirley Thompson Location: Tyne and wear uk Date: 14.04.2008 Time: 07:22:59 Rating:

anything remotely connected to the wylie/wiley family is of most important to me. my wiley family comes from co down but census says cambe but it must be comber .

389 » bob Maitland Location: Auckland nz Date: 14.04.2008 Time: 05:17:29 Rating:

Lennon/Wylie, Always a pleasure to go into your site. I always feel good afterwards and also a little closer to my grandfather Andrew Henderson. All the best for the future Bob

388 » Edmund Dorman Location: Ross-on-Wye Date: 11.04.2008 Time: 22:23:31 Rating:

Really useful site. Has enabled me to add a lot to my research of McCullough family of Peters Hill. Where do I go to get pictures or illustrations of old Belfast -- guidance would be appreciated. Many tks Cheers Edmund

387 » Gerry Garland Location: Belfast Date: 11.04.2008 Time: 12:09:51 Rating:

What a great job you have been doing you have helped me alot Thank you

386 » Daniel Location: Whiteabbey Date: 11.04.2008 Time: 00:23:45 Rating:

really good work -a great help

385 » hazel Location: Belfast NI Date: 10.04.2008 Time: 17:26:36 Rating:

b rilliant. we found streets and names for our family tree thank you

384 » Jim Rainey Location: Bangor Date: 09.04.2008 Time: 20:40:25 Rating:

great site. this is an extract from 1901 census. for Jennymount street. William j Rainey 58 flax bundler head of household. Mary Rainey 41 wife. Rebecca Rainey 15 daughter. Joseph Rainey 13 son. James Rainey 11 son. any information you can find on this family will be of great help to me. Jim Rainey www.jimrainey@hotmail.co.uk.

383 » Gerald McAreavey Location: Blackburn Lancashire Date: 09.04.2008 Time: 00:28:08 Rating:

Very interesting site.

382 » Colleen Ann Fleming Location: Hull, Massacuhsetts Date: 08.04.2008 Time: 18:19:39 Rating:

I found your site most interesting and informative.....I have an antique bottle from Londonderry - states as follows: Bottled by O'Neil & McHenry - underneath -shamrocks engulfing two circles and within the circle and arm bent holding a sword covered in armory! Do you know anything about this particular bottling company's history. Thanks Colleen - I am first generation Irish here in the USA!

381 » Patrick Greer Location: Belfast Date: 07.04.2008 Time: 20:31:43 Rating:

Excellent source of information it must have taken a lot of time to compile this archive. I shall be passing your site address on to the members of the West Belfast Historical Society

380 » Paul Greer Location: Belfast Date: 07.04.2008 Time: 19:50:42 Rating:

my great grandparents were wylies from Colligan street ,Belfast....any connection

379 » Charlie mc Kiernan Location: Southampton Hampshire Date: 06.04.2008 Time: 13:20:58 Rating:

this is the best website I have found and I'm sure everyone appreciates the time and effort you put into it much appreciated have a good life

378 » Joe corkill Location: Merseyside Date: 06.04.2008 Time: 12:18:20 Rating:

I am researching my grandfather Dominic Augustine Kean a son of Dr Hugh Kean and Sophia Lupton both of Newry. I have some bits of family history and wonder if there are any extended Kean family still around I am just past retirement age.

377 » Gwen Krumperman Location: Nauvoo, IL, USA Date: 03.04.2008 Time: 04:07:45 Rating:

My ancestors came from Belfast area in 1856, immigrating to America. I found the surname McCleave in the directory. I'll be back to check for more of my family names. Bell, Lamb, McCleave, McConkey, McCracken, McFerren, McHarry and Wilson.

376 » Jennifer Whineray nee Adams Location: Australia Date: 01.04.2008 Time: 03:26:01 Rating:

I think your site is terrific. All my Ancestors came from Ireland. Adams were Protestant (I believe arriving in Ireland around the time of the Plantation period) My Gr Gr Gr Grandfather was in the 57th Irish Fusiliers and after finishing service in India returned and lived in Cavan until about 1860 when the family shifted to Liverpool. My Mothers side were Irish Catholics with Surname of Brady and King. They were born in and around Limerick and Dublin. I am finding this section very hard to trace even here in Australia. So thank you for your site it has given me lots of ideas. Regards Jenny

375 » Elizabeth Watters Location: Newtownabbey Date: 31.03.2008 Time: 23:10:25 Rating:

Found very useful information first time on this site. I intend to use it regular while researching my family tree. Names include Doggart, Shields, Crozier, Hall and Watters .

374 » Kate Location: Belfast Date: 31.03.2008 Time: 22:44:41 Rating:

I have just found this site but I will certainly be in it more than I can tell u as I have a lot of stuff to look up

373 » Christina Taylor Location: Wales Date: 31.03.2008 Time: 21:59:15 Rating:

I found Stanhope st no 31 my grandmother lived there and was married from that house in1906 her name was Annie Luby also Maggie Sheriden lived in the same st she married Thomas Craig from hail st I cant find any thing about where she was born please help she had a brother called john at this address he also lived in 6 Catherine court before he died

372 » maud Hamill Location: Northern Ireland. Date: 31.03.2008 Time: 17:27:18 Rating:

I really appreciate all the very hard work you have put in to make this site the success that it is. For me it does save the trips to Belfast to check the directories. Thanks again.

371 » Mark69 Location: Wiltshire, England Date: 31.03.2008 Time: 13:33:11 Rating:

Just finding my way around this great site, but still searching specifically for information on the following : William Moor born c.1805 in Carnmoney, Antrim and emigrated to England (Liverpool ?) with his wife Mary Wallace born c.1810 also Carnomoney. Any help would be much appreciated.

370 » Patrick Glynn Location: Dublin Date: 30.03.2008 Time: 10:01:11 Rating:

I found your 1913 Telephone Directory of Dublin Numbers very useful. I expect to get a lot more information and pleasure from it. I have already introduced it to friend. He is also interested in Genealogy and local History. Thanks for all the hard work. P

369 » Jackie Beatty Location: Andersonstown, Belfast Date: 29.03.2008 Time: 18:28:51 Rating:

I worked in the post office in Belfast for many years starting as a telegram boy. Whilst going through the street directories it brought back lots of memories of streets with half-doors, houses up entries, they are long since gone. I wish that I had photographed these sights of Old Belfast. My ancestors lived in Round entry and that neighbourhood in 1820s, They were born, baptised and married there and St. Patrick's  R.C. Donegal Street. My grandfather and his brother both died 1918, WW1. In the space of 10 years, my grandfather lost his mother,3 sisters,1 brother, a son and daughter and 2 nephews, all from 9, Fort Street. I am still finding ancestors in your directories it is absolutely brilliant, Many thanks, a great genealogy site.

368 » Lennon/Wylie Location: North Down Date: 27.03.2008 Time: 15:54:17 Rating:

GOOD NEWS Proni have published the scanned street directories pre 1900 http://proni.aetopia.com/streetdirectories/index.html BAD NEWS they took them off again

367 » Hazel Fergie Location: England Date: 27.03.2008 Time: 15:11:51 Rating:

Hi, I'd like to say a big thank you for all the hard, and dedicated work you have put into this web site. Living outside Ireland makes it very difficult to access information regarding my Lee family history. If anyone knows of Thomas Lee born 1852, and Mary Lee nee Lynch living at 113 Manor Road< Belfast, I'd be grateful for any information. Hazel

366 » June McVeigh Location: Millbrook, Larne Date: 25.03.2008 Time: 16:40:14 Rating:

A lot of time and dedication has obviously been put into this and I'm sure all users of your site appreciate the information that it offers to complete strangers. It has helped me pin down old rellies as they seem to have moved around Belfast, though one address appears to have been central. It looks like my Boyds and McClintons in the Shankill all got houses by other family members dying !!!! Well done and thanks for linking me to other useful sites that I wouldn't have considered any help. June

365 » Kay Location: Ontario, Canada Date: 25.03.2008 Time: 01:55:06 Rating:

Thank you so much for making these directories available. After years of hunting, I have now located my gggrandfather Peter GARVEY in business as a boot maker on Ann Street in 1843. Life is good!

364 » Tina Titcombe Location: Melbourne Australia Date: 23.03.2008 Time: 12:01:05 Rating:

Great site!!!! More information here then any other site on Ireland I have found.

363 » Kathy Eichorn Location: Rochester, NY, USA Date: 23.03.2008 Time: 02:34:46 Rating:

Just found this website today... will take awhile to explore. Searching for relatives from County Down & Belfast area... Williamson, Creighton, Jameson, Ferris. Believe my great-grandmother, Mildred Ferris Williamson, was cousin to Olympian Samuel Ferris. Another Ferris owned a large linen mill in Belfast in the 50s ?. Mildred Ferris Williamson, her husband & children, as well as her sisters emigrated to Canada around 1912, then settled in Rochester NY. Any info would be much appreciated. Thank you. Happy Easter.

362 » Ken Laird Location: Ballyshannon Date: 18.03.2008 Time: 20:54:54 Rating:

great site....always amazed at how much one can find out when one travels through cyberspace... but I do appreciate the tremendous effort to make all this available....I'm particularly looking to expand information on Lairds in Royal Inniskilling Fus (WW1) .. and figuring out where the Lairds arrived from In Ballyshannon.. first mentioned (Wm Laird) in the 1830's ..anybody out there missing a Wm Laird from their 'tree" at about the same time?? Good luck with your efforts.. KL. March 2008

361 » Maura Lennon Location: Brooklyn NY Date: 18.03.2008 Time: 17:29:19 Rating:

Love the web site my father Jim Lennon is looking for a granduncle Frank Lennon from Tyrone close to Dungannon. Had an Aunt Lizzy and Mary Ellen Lennon from Tyrone. Just wondering if there would be any connection. Thanks Maura

360 » Jackson Location: Belfast Date: 15.03.2008 Time: 01:46:03 Rating:

Fantastic piece of work and a great resource. It has taken a lot of effort to place this online and I thank you for that.

359 » Thomas Norrell Location: Castle Upton, Templepatrick Date: 14.03.2008 Time: 13:34:53 Rating:

Excellent genealogical resource.

358 » Edward Byrne Location: Dublin 5th Generation Date: 13.03.2008 Time: 21:11:45 Rating:

F ound my great grandfather who had a butchers shop in Chatham Street , he was married to a woman called Tutty whose family had dairies in Dublin. The lived in Donnybrock up until the 1940s in beever Row . Interesting site do you have any details about Kildare street as I had a relative who used to run a garage called the Shelbourne Motor Company before the Hotel used to use it for garaging their cars

357 » John McAuley Location: USA Date: 13.03.2008 Time: 20:18:08 Rating:

My grandfather lived in 58 Dunville Street and married a "Cassie" Smyth, whose family lived their previously.

356 » Rab Location: Ulster Date: 11.03.2008 Time: 14:44:36 Rating:

A really good site. Very informative. Thank you very much for the time and effort you have put into it. Rab.

355 » Elaine Location: Australia Date: 11.03.2008 Time: 05:38:10 Rating:

Wonderful site you have really helped me with my research, having some many lines of my family coming from Ireland, with so many records missing being able to read through the directories has certainly helped me

354 » J. Harper Location: Crossgar Date: 09.03.2008 Time: 21:34:11 Rating:

Just found this site and it seems awesome really looking forward to delving. Thank you for your hard work. Jeanetta Harper

353 » William Adrain Location: Dungannon Date: 07.03.2008 Time: 18:59:34 Rating:

My father William Adrain was a Sgt. in the 21st battery 8th Belfast HAA and won the MM in the battle of the Admin Box in the Arakan, Feb,1944. I have his diary of the battle containing the names of the dead and wounded. He died in April 1984 40 years after the Admin Box. I also have some photos. w Adrain

352 » Janey Thomson Giffen Location: Ontario, Canada Date: 06.03.2008 Time: 15:54:08 Rating:

Just found your website and looking forward to finding some link to my Irish Ancestors,, "Giffen" from Belfast; "Hediphant", Cty Down, "Bushe" & Backhouse" Londonderry; All help appreciated, thanks Janey T.Giffen

351 » John English Location: Belfast Date: 05.03.2008 Time: 16:26:09 Rating:

This is my first visit to your site, so I will post my comments later.

350 » Ed Kavanagh Location: Belfast Date: 02.03.2008 Time: 21:03:06 Rating:

I came across the site a few years ago & then lost details of it. I am glad you have helped to be reunited with it. I am particularly interested in the old Street Directories & they are an invaluable source of information. Your site contents are excellent and are invaluable to someone like me who is just at the 'plodding' stage in genealogy. Very sorry to hear you are having problems with the Lookups Forum. Kind regards. Ed

349 » Elizabeth Location: Belfast Date: 02.03.2008 Time: 14:42:53 Rating:

thanks to your site I was able to find family

348 » Keleigh-Marie Snelgrove Location: Southampton, Hampshire, England Date: 01.03.2008 Time: 20:59:09 Rating:

Thanks to your site, I have just traced the address of my Great, great, great Grandfather: the Roaring Revd. Hugh Hannah. I have been searching for this information for years. This means so much to me, you have no idea. Thank you. Yours faithfully Keleigh-Marie

347 » Marion Maxwell Location: Fermanagh Date: 01.03.2008 Time: 12:28:43 Rating:

a wealth of information, thank you. But I am confused about what dates [pertain to the information on Ulster towns.

346 » Paddy Location: Ottawa, Ontario Canada Date: 29.02.2008 Time: 18:53:07 Rating:

Thank you for your wonderful, informative site. I have only recently discovered that my g-g-g-grandfather, Robert McMullen, came from Magherafelt. He arrived in Canada circa 1818, secured a large parcel of land just south of Ottawa, Ontario in Oxford-on-Rideau and may have returned to Ireland to marry, since he and his young family arrived to occupy the land several years later. He served in His Majesty's 47th Regiment of Foot, but I know virtually nothing yet of his life or the family prior to their arrival in Canada. Anyway, I now look forward to continuing my search... Thanks again, Paddy McMullen Erwin

345 » Norman Gray Location: Derby Date: 28.02.2008 Time: 02:18:02 Rating:

Hi Lennon/Wylie Just saying hello. Hope you, and your family are well. I see the site is still going strong, good for you Lennon/Wylie. all the best for now...Norman

344 » Doreen Location: Winnipeg Canada Date: 26.02.2008 Time: 21:18:11 Rating:

Love your website. It's so hard to find anything about my Irish side but just browsing today I found my ggrandmother's name and the street where she lived in 1907. Thanks. Doreen

343 » Esteban Lett-Brown Location: Argentina Date: 26.02.2008 Time: 05:40:58 Rating:

Wonderful site, found many interesting facts about the life of Rev. Charles Marcus Lett. Most grateful!

342 » Patrick J Moss Location: Belfast (Castlederg, Co. Tyrone) Date: 25.02.2008 Time: 23:58:47 Rating:

Very good site. Extremely interesting

341 » Robin Cardwell Location: East Belfast Date: 24.02.2008 Time: 19:56:38 Rating:

Lennon/Wylie, I stumbled on your site a few years ago when you started with the 1861 Belfast street Directory. I have recommended it to loads of people since then. It is a real credit to your dedication and the enormous time you have spent on it. Thanks on behalf of the many thousands who have gleaned important information from it. Good luck for the future Robin

340 » Stephanie Wilks Location: Spain Date: 23.02.2008 Time: 16:45:02 Rating:

I've only been told about this site today and already I've found it most interesting.

339 » Hugh Stevely Location: Newcastle on Tyne uk Date: 23.02.2008 Time: 08:59:53 Rating:

A very good site a lot of hard work put into it well done keep up the good work, I am looking for any info on my G.G.G. Grandfather Hugh Stevely who married one Sarah Campell Ballymena Co Antrim also Son James Stevely Ballymena. Hugh.

338 » AUDREY PADDY KEITH Location: GEORGIA USA Date: 22.02.2008 Time: 23:03:33 Rating:

G REAT SIGHT. MY SISTER WENDY MURRAY AND I ARE TRYING TO LOCATE MEMBERS OF OUR FAMILY. THEY INCLUDE MCROBERTS, ROBERTS, WILSON, MCKEE AND JORDAN. THESE ARE ONLY ON MY MOTHERS SIDE.\!! THANKS FOR HAVING SO MUCH INFO FOR US TO PERUSE. APK

337 » Wendy Murray Location: Connecticut, U.S.A. Date: 22.02.2008 Time: 15:00:47 Rating:

Wonderful site. My sister and I are researching our family and have found several relatives using your site. Looking for family of William Evan (evanor) Roberts m. Harriet Jane (jean) Wilson. Thanks so much.

336 » Tina Baumann Location: Perth Western Australia Date: 22.02.2008 Time: 13:06:48 Rating:

Have been trying to research my family tree for over 6 years from the other side of the world; VALENTE, THOMPSON, MCSTRAVICK, PURDY, CONOLLY ................ hope this site helps!!

335 » Regan Smyth (mother Radcliffe) Location: East Belfast Date: 21.02.2008 Time: 22:14:31 Rating:

H elp! I desperately need some help in finding details about 'Forthill, Groomsport, Co. Down'. My family have had a small cottage there for 45 years. Property developers are trying to get us out - they are also completely destroying the area! My sister once saw an ancient map which referred to the hill our cottage came from as 'Forthill'. I think there may have been an old fort there. I can't find any info online - can anyone give me some help/ideas?

334 » Jill Armsby Location: Cumbria Date: 20.02.2008 Time: 19:19:58 Rating:

Splendid site. I've found it very helpful

333 » Eileen Armstrong Location: co Tyrone Date: 19.02.2008 Time: 00:07:47 Rating:

great!! looking for north queen st 1900...1939 McCleery st same years. Thanks this is great stuff. now I have retired I am just starting to research. any ideas? where do I start? wonderful!!

332 » Gail Riggens Location: Scotland Date: 17.02.2008 Time: 10:29:47 Rating:

I was given a link to this page by a fellow chatter, who knows that I am trying to research the Wylie branch of my tree. I have a marriage for JAMES WILEY and MARIA NICHOLL, in 1851, at Newtonhamilton. James and Maria were my ggg grandparents. Their son, Joseph, was my gg grandfather. The family moved over here to Scotland where they had the remainder of their family. I have enjoyed having a look at your site, and will do so again, in more detail, later. Best Wishes Gail

331 » Charlie mc Kiernan Location: Belfast now living in Southampton Date: 13.02.2008 Time: 19:55:37 Rating:

very good site just found it today will be back good luck

330 » Cary Marsh Location: Canada Date: 12.02.2008 Time: 14:22:23 Rating:

Gibb and Ross are family surnames of a friend who came to Canada in the 1950's. The ancestors lived in and around Armagh City, Lisburn and Belfast. One was a blacksmith

329» Jeanetta Harper Location: Belfast Date: 12.02.2008 Time: 12:53:02 Rating:

This is what I call dedication, well done

328 » Ian Taylor Location: Clitheroe Date: 11.02.2008 Time: 21:08:40 Rating:

fascinating detail

327 » Grant   Location: Perth, Australia Date: 11.02.2008 Time: 06:50:48 Rating:

wonderful to find the information I needed Rev.James White of Carrickfergus 1810-1889 The Johnstones of Greenisland /Carrickfergus

326 » Walt Graham   Location: Bangor, Co. Down Date: 10.02.2008 Time: 22:55:41 Rating:

Excellent site, keep it going. Information on it is priceless. Regards, Walt

325 » Edmund Dorman   Location: Belfast Date: 08.02.2008 Time: 12:02:52 Rating:

Have been trying to find detsails of James McCullough Wine merchant Belfast 1835 - 1873 Where lived, children etc etc He must be there as he was able to educate his son a Glasgow University. Can you help. HAVE NOT B EEN ABLE TO FIND WAY INTO YOUR SITE TO TRACK HIM DOWN rGDS Edmund

324 » Robert G. Coey Location: Victoria B. C. Date: 07.02.2008 Time: 21:23:01 Rating:

Sir Edward Coey , MAYOR OF BELFAST and other achievements ,very interesting . Wish to find his children and their children. thank you for the chance to express a few words, best regards R.G. Coey

323 » Peter Scott Location: Dublin, Ireland Date: 07.02.2008 Time: 13:09:34 Rating:

This is a superb website. I use it time and time again for genealogy requests and the like. I have great pleasure in 'Stumbling' it (see home link) and hope it generates more traffic, success and appreciation for you. Warmest wishes and thanks again, Peter

322 » Robert E Clegg Location: Victoria, Texas Date: 03.02.2008 Time: 21:46:43 Rating:

I am the Great-Great-Great grandson of Robert Clegg of Enniskillen, County Fermanagh who was the Town Clerk of Enniskillen from about 1832 until his death in 1868.

321 » Ann Lockey Location: England Date: 03.02.2008 Time: 20:45:13 Rating:

Hello, I came by your site quite by accident when looking for another site, very informative will have to have a good look around I have Irish Ancestors and its possible that one or two of them are amongst your site listings. Thanks Its Great Annie

320 » Eileen Neill Location: Yorkshire - England Date: 02.02.2008 Time: 16:12:05 Rating:

First time user. Just found you via a link from "Emerald Ancestors" site. Researching my paternal side:- Herron, Ballymacarrott-Belfast Also my husbands family:- Neill. Not sure of the County yet. Impatiently waiting for the 1901 census to come online. Regards Eileen

319 » Brian McConnell Location: Canada Date: 01.02.2008 Time: 20:58:22 Rating:

Congratulations on a wonderful site ! Thank you for all your efforts. My great uncle, William Clarke, born Killeevin, County Monaghan enlisted at Newbliss with 9th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. He held rank of Private and was killed in action at Battle of Cambrai in France on July 1, 1916. Do you know where he might be buried ? Would it appear on any monument ?

318 » Shirley Taylor Location: White Rock, B.C. Canada Date: 29.01.2008 Time: 20:22:14 Rating:

Your site is a treasure trove of information. I have found alot of interesting material about the Boyce's of northern Ireland. Thank you, Shirley

317 » Pat Emerson Location: Seattle, USA Date: 28.01.2008 Time: 05:45:02 Rating:

I couldn't help but notice that your last name is Wiley. I am researching your (our) family name and will be visiting Northern Ireland the last week in September of this year. I have been told (via family history) that my people are from Belfast and (from the internet) more specifically from the Portglenone area. Are we by any chance related? They were suppose to be active in the 2nd Portglenone Presbyterian church but I can't find the right site. YOUR DEDICATION TO THIS SIGHT IS FANTASTIC!!!! 1 James Wiley b: Abt. 1770 in Belfast d USA .. +Mary Huston b: Abt. 1770 in Belfast, d USA .........2 William Wiley b: Feb 01, 1791 in Belfast, d USA .............+Martha Peoples b: April 25, 1801 in, USA .........2 James Wiley .........2 Nancy Wiley .........2 Elizabeth Wiley .........2 Martha Wiley .............+Hutchinson

316 » Margaret Location: Brisbane Date: 28.01.2008 Time: 00:02:17 Rating:

This site has an amazing amount of information - congratulations on putting all this at our finger tips.

315 » Joe Center Location: SCOTLAND Date: 27.01.2008 Time: 21:48:41 Rating:

Very interesting site, I am researching Black watch buried in Ireland. Milltown Cemetery there is Black watch buried there, on looking that up I came across Lennon Wylie, enlisted 1898 born 1870 Belfast, was he Black Watch and is he buried at Milltown? Can you help me on this? Yours Joe Center

314 » Yvonne Crawford Date: 27.01.2008 Time: 20:22:19 Rating:

I have been trying to trace both my paternal and maternal family trees. At the moment I am concentrating on the paternal side of the family. As far back as I have discovered they originally came from the Hillsborough area - names: Hanna/Eccles/Wilson, and from Belfast - names: Caves/Shaw/Stewart. If any of these ring bells I would be grateful to hear from you. In the meantime, best of luck to all you other sad cases out there!

313 » David Location: Norn Iron Date: 27.01.2008 Time: 12:31:18 Rating:

Hours of innocent exploration

312 » Frank Callery Location: Kilkenny Ireland Date: 27.01.2008 Time: 01:33:42 Rating:

Thank you for a great Belfast site. Frank

311 » Diane Location: Australia Date: 26.01.2008 Time: 02:17:12 Rating:

Just thought I would say hi do you remember me you sent me the newspaper article on my uncle Francis Pidwell still searching family history.

310 » Don Blaser Location: Oregon USA Date: 26.01.2008 Time: 00:40:15 Rating:

Great site. Taking my mother to Ireland this summer as she turns 80. Her maiden name is Lennon/Wylie Lennon and ancestors she was told came from County Meath. Was hoping to find a connection at your site but no luck. Thanks for a very interesting site!

309 » Joan MacMillan Location: Canada Date: 24.01.2008 Time: 22:28:38 Rating:

Street directories interesting. My Great grandfather (Hugh Bradford ) came from Maghermorne--1850--I think they were poor farmers leasing land. They were of British ancestry (protestant) and educated. They were of British ancestry (protestant) and educated. The street directories are merchants--any help with farmers?

308 » Guy Fiegehen Location: London Date: 20.01.2008 Time: 18:39:26 Rating:

Looking for info on my ancestor V W Magill (male) who lived in second half of 19th century. He was member no 89 of Stand House, Maze.

307 » Joyce Johnson Location: Australia Date: 20.01.2008 Time: 09:15:43 Rating:

I am trying to trace my family tree and not having much luck, the street directory was a great help

306 » David Chambers Location: Newtownards, Co. Down Date: 19.01.2008 Time: 22:45:16 Rating:

Have looked briefly at this site before. This time I have searched in detail, and I am amazed at what you have put together. You deserve a medal!

305 » Billy Irvine Location: Elizabeth, sth. aust. Date: 19.01.2008 Time: 00:20:49 Rating:

first time viewer

304 » Maggie McCann Location: Belfast Date: 17.01.2008 Time: 19:10:31 Rating:

I have just signed on so I need to see more it looks super

303 » Meg Date: 16.01.2008 Time: 20:17:15 Rating:

Hello Lennon/Wylie I apologise if this is not the appropriate place to post this message but I tried to email you and for whatever reason it sat blocking my system up with you have unsent message etc and the error sign I just wanted to let you know that I am gutted the forum and all your hard work appears to be lost and to say I do hope that all goes well with your dad's op kindest regards Meg Reply: Hi Meg, yes unfortunately the Forum died, such is life, you and everyone else can still email me with any queries I've tried to keep everyone up to date here http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/forumdown.htm and the Forum url now takes everyone to this page also Hopefully I can get another forum on the go as soon as I sort my Dad out Thank you Lennon/Wylie

302 » Stephen Cameron Location: Belfast Date: 15.01.2008 Time: 15:57:03 Rating:

As a local historian and author I have used this site on several occasions. I am most impressed by the effort and commitment that has gone into creating this site, as it makes checking personal details so much easier that a trip to Belfast to check directories. To all concerned thank you for the work you have done, and please don't stop.

301 » Les Moore Location: Rochester Kent Date: 15.01.2008 Time: 12:02:54 Rating:

Found this website very interesting My Grandfather Thomas Moore was a Sgt Major in the 15th Royal Irish Rifles 15/12478 fought throughout the war spent the last few months in a pow camp near Tsarritsyn. An article about his bravery in saving the life of a young Lieut at Messines was in the Belfast Telegraph Sept 7th 1964 the Lieut called him out in front of 850 36th Ulster div veterans at the great hall Belfast and gave my grandfather a gold watch for saving his life. Passed away 1970 aged 84.

300 » Gerry rice Location: Fermanagh Date: 14.01.2008 Time: 23:30:20 Rating:

St. Macartin's Church of Ireland Cathedral and Graveyard. Set against the 1637 tower of an earlier church built in 1620s the present building, designed by Thomas Elliott and opened in1842, is characteristic of early Victorian architecture. In 1923 it was promoted to cathedral status of the diocese of Clogher. re the picture of Enniskillen one of the most interesting sites I have ever come across

299 » Joe Lennon Location: New Zealand Date: 14.01.2008 Time: 07:51:51 Rating:

Just found his site after being told by a friend. Looking for O'Connor at Lucan Street, Belfast

298 » David turner Location: Dublin Date: 13.01.2008 Time: 11:26:36 Rating:

my great grandmother Elizabeth mccreddin ,nee morrow came from Cavan, her brother Robert morrow and cousins ,were educated at Wilson's hospital school. we have lost all contact with the family in Cavan. if any one has any info on the family .please email

297 » Mrs. Margaret child Location: Belfast Date: 12.01.2008 Time: 21:47:33 Rating:

great site. interesting information. I am researching laird name in Belfast and Londonderry. also Houston of Newcastle street and Lurgan area. thanks

296 » Hen Location: N Ireland Date: 11.01.2008 Time: 00:16:30 Rating:

Is the Hugh Montgomery, founder of Northern Bank, the same Hugh Montgomery who ran the market off Castle Lane? Was Robert Montgomery his brother?

295 » Mike Location: Near Oxford, UK Date: 10.01.2008 Time: 21:06:32 Rating:

This is just the most fantastic site reflecting the huge amount of work that must have been put into it. I am researching Harrison and Riddell in Belfast and now I know where they lived! Thank you so much! Mike

294 » E CLIFFORD Location: n Ireland Date: 09.01.2008 Time: 00:01:51 Rating:

my family name is graham looking for any information on Coyle street Donegal pass 1920 1930 . my grandmothers maiden name was Alice Jane Donaghy. any info would be most helpful

293 » Chuck Keenan Location: Groveland, NY, USA Date: 08.01.2008 Time: 00:43:10 Rating:

Very nice site. I think you have been helpful in the past in helping me find some of my rascal Keenan/McQuoid family in Co. Down. Best regards from Western NY Chuck Keenan

292 » Sandra Location: Co Antrim Date: 07.01.2008 Time: 16:41:02 Rating:

A fantastic site with unique information. I shall pass on the link to Family History Society members.

291 » Jimmy Carmichael Location: Runcorn, Cheshire, England Date: 07.01.2008 Time: 12:54:24 Rating:

What a fantastic resource your website has grown into and still growing all the time, just stopped looking after 2 hours, only came on just for a quick browse Jimmy

290 » Ed Riordan Location: cork Ireland Date: 06.01.2008 Time: 00:06:43 Rating:

fantastic work- a true labour of love. Best wishes from the home of Ebenezer Pike in Cork.

289 » Dee Cunningham Location: Wakefield , UK. via New Jersey! Date: 05.01.2008 Time: 18:53:15 Rating:

Marvelous research! Well done! I stumbled upon this website whilst looking for info re: Eleanor McConnell, my grandmother from Ballymena, as well as her parents, James and Agnes Nesbitt McConnell, whom I believe to be from the Ahogill section of Ballymena, -yet there is a Grange Presbyterian Church (nr. Toomebridge) connection we are still trying to unravel . I believe James McConnell was a grocer, but we do not know where. Any help would be appreciated. thank you!

288 » Michele Morrow Location: London Date: 02.01.2008 Time: 15:20:05 Rating:

I am trying to find out more about my grandfather. He was born in Ballyshannon in about 1890 served in WW1 and was a German POW. He married in Wimbledon in South West London in 1919 and returned to Belfast and worked as a blacksmith in Harland and Wolff for a few years (although he was a Catholic) before for going to America and disappearing. Anything about him or his family would be so interesting. I believe his father installed the plumbing into a country house in Fermanagh - is this true? Love the website - it's very inspiring Michele

287 » ROBERT LOWRY Location: PORTADOWN Date: 30.12.2007 Time: 23:47:46 Rating:

G OOD SITE AND VERY IMPRESSED TRYING TO FIND THE LOWRYS OF PEVERIL ST ORMEAU RD

286 » Jim Reid Location: Belfast Date: 29.12.2007 Time: 15:48:07 Rating:

I am interested in searching for my family tree

285 » Joe McGrath Location: Whiteabbey now in Aberdeen Date: 27.12.2007 Time: 20:58:55 Rating:

I have been trying to find information on my McGrath ( Cooper ) grandparents who lived in the New Lodge area around 1900. They lived in Walbeck, Hartwell and Glenview Streets at various times. So far I have not been able to find a link to my ggparents. I have found your site fascinating. A great site.

284 » Betty Location: Scotland Date: 27.12.2007 Time: 03:03:51 Rating:

Great website but still looking for my grandmother Mary Carney c1880 and my great grandfather Nicholas John Carney and his wife Margaret Kennedy in Down.

283 » SHANNON Location: TEXAS, USA Date: 25.12.2007 Time: 19:18:48 Rating:

I've enjoyed looking at your sight. I am looking for my great-grandfather's family in Belfast. Family name is Truelove.

282 » reg mcmeekin Location: nth Yorkshire Date: 24.12.2007 Time: 13:16:42 Rating:

great site, I am trying to discover the mcmeekin and martin families pre-1900,yours reg

281 » Sam Watkinson Location: Lancashire Date: 23.12.2007 Time: 20:10:59 Rating:

Thanks for such a comprehensive website. My interest is the Chases of Belfast area, 1810-1870

280 » Irene Hahn Location: Michigan, USA Date: 22.12.2007 Time: 18:01:11 Rating:

Great website! I've found relatives I've been searching for.

279 » John Caughey Location: Belfast Date: 17.12.2007 Time: 15:38:57 Rating:

May God bless and reward you for the great work you do!

278 » Yvonne Armstrong Location: Whiteabbey (now Newtownabbey Date: 12.12.2007 Time: 13:32:15 Rating:

I was for three years a compiler of the street directory in the eighties. Upon reflection it was an interesting temporary job. Most people never give a thought as to how this book was compiled and I am sure there are not too many of us around. I found streets in Belfast I did not know existed. I have just found my great grandmother in Whiteabbey listed . She came from a townland near Ballymena called Kirkinriolia!