These maps are pre WWII and the Belfast maps in particular are an invaluable source of information as they show many streets that no longer exist due to bomb damage and redevelopment. All maps also include a local history of the area including directory extracts of the time.

• Ireland
• Co Armagh
• Co Antrim and Belfast
• Co Down
• Co Fermanagh
• Co Londonderry
• Co Tyrone
• Republic of Ireland
• Co Cavan
• Co Dublin
• Co Leitrim
• Co Louth
• Co Monaghan
• Co Offaly
• Co Sligo
• Co Westmeath
• Inch to the Mile maps of Ireland

Week of Welcomes: 26th June to 2nd July 2011

The Ireland Reaching Out (Ireland XO/IRO) project is an initiative for the economic, social and cultural development of the Irish people both at home and abroad. It is based on a simple idea; instead of waiting for people of Irish descent to come home to Ireland to trace their roots, local Irish parish communities go the other way. At a townland, village and parish level, local Irish communities identify who left their neighbourhoods, and trace them and their descendant worldwide, proactively engaging with them and inviting them to become part of an extended virtual community with their place of origin.

The project is supported by the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic Philanthropies, and by local government, national heritage and volunteer agencies.  Through 2011, the area of South-East Galway has been designated as the national pilot project area and will host the inaugural „Week of Welcomes”.  The week is part of the pilot project which will soon become a major nationwide initiative with a website at www.irelandXO.org

You can read more here…

If you have the names of the couples children, in order, you can try
applying the naming pattern. Upon occasion, the first son was named for the wife’s father, especially if he had recently, or already died and the father’s father was still alive. Occasionally, a couple was less tied to tradition, and named a child for a favorite uncle or famous relative, or a close friend; however, the vast majority followed convention, and used the naming pattern.

Compiled by John C. Greene

Please acknowledge the assistance of The Belfast NewsletterIndex in resulting publications. Such acknowledgement may help to procure funding for future indexing of Irish newspapers.

A Brief History:

The Belfast Newsletter, an Irish newspaper that began publication in Belfast in 1737 and continues in business until this day, has good claim to being the oldest continually-published English-language newspaper. This is the first such index to be completed for an Irish newspaper. The Belfast Newsletter was published thrice-weekly during the 18th century, in issues of four pages each. During its time, the Newsletter was seldom equalled in the breadth and quality of its coverage of local and international events.

Every significant word and date in the 20,000 surviving pages of the newspaper was indexed, but not all of the newspapers are still available. In fact, only about one-quarter of the newspapers for the years from 1737 to 1750 have survived, although the run of newspapers is nearly complete from 1750 through 1800 (Click here for a list of surviving newspapers). The final database of information contains nearly 300,000 items of news and advertisements.

You can now look up burial records online using our search facility.

The service allows you to search for burial records in Belfast from 1869 onwards. Around 360,000 records are available relating to:

• Belfast City Cemetery – records from 1869 (including the Jewish, public and Glenalina extension sections)
• Roselawn Cemetery – records from 1954
• Dundonald Cemetery – records from 1905.

You can use the search facility to view, where available, the folllowing information about the deceased:

• full name
• age
• last place of residence
• sex
• date of death
• date of burial
• cemetery they are interred in
• grave section and number
• type of burial, for example, standard earth burial or cremation.

The service is useful if you are interested in tracing your family history, carrying out larger genealogy or historical searches, or trying to locate a grave (for example, a funeral director or monumental sculptor).

• Begin searching for burial records

Other cemeteries

The search facility does not currently include burial records for the following cemeteries:

• Balmoral Cemetery
• Clifton Street Graveyard
• Friar’s Bush Graveyard
• Knock Burial Ground
• Shankill Graveyard.

If you are looking for records for these graveyards, call our Cemeteries and Crematorium Central Office on 028 9027 0296 or email cemeteries@belfastcity.gov.uk for further help and advice.

Please note that they do not look after, or hold records for, Milltown Cemetery or Knockbreda Cemetery.
For more information, call Milltown Cemetery on 028 9061 3972 or Knockbreda Cemetery on 028 9049 4500.

The resource is a searchable virtual library called ‘DIPPAM: Documenting Ireland – Parliament, People and Migration’, and it brings together into an accessible form and enhances three existing resources - EPPI – the Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland 1800-1922; the IED – Irish Emigration Database, containing runs of emigrant letters, newspaper extracts and other emigration-related materials for the 18th-early 20th centuries; and VMR – Voices of Migration and Return – a collection of 90 interviews with 20th century Ulster migrants.

This resource has been created by a collaboration between Queen’s University Belfast, University of Ulster, the Centre for Migration Studies (Omagh) and Libraries NI, and funded by the AHRC, and can be accessed via the webpage http://www.dippam.ac.uk . The resource will be fully operational from about 9 March, and we have a number of regional workshops scheduled this month and a launch event at QUB on 21 March.

Additional Notices for Wade, Elizabeth (Sally)

1st Enlistment – Alfred Teeney 1912

View PDF of Service Record Here.

29th August 1912
Joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 4th Battalion.* Regimental No. 2816, Alfred Teeney.

4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion:
August 1914: in Enniskillen. Moved on mobilisation to Lough Swilly and in October 1914 to Buncrana. Had a period in 1916 in Clonmany but returned to Buncrana. Absorbed the 3rd (Reserve) Bn in April 1918.

30th August 1912
Description of Alfred Teeney on Enlistment. Declared FIT for the Army Reserve 29th August 1912 in Belfast and approved 30th August 1912. Posted as Private.

Description of Alferd Teeney on enlistment.

• Height: 5ft 4 1/2″
• Weight: 107lbs
• Chest Measurement: Girth when fully expanded 33″/  range of expansion 4″
• Eyes: Blue
• Hair: Light Brown
• Birth mark right side of back
• Pulse 80

10th September 1912
Station: Enniskillen
Discharged in consequence of “having made a mis-statement as to age on enlistment.
Character on discharge: Good

2nd Enlistment – Albert Teeney 1914

View PDF of Service Record Here. (Currently compiling individual pages into PDF)
View JPEG of Medal Card here.

18th February 1914
Joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 4th Battalion. *Regimental No. 3224, Albert Teeney.
Declared FIT for the Army Reserve 18th February 1914 in Belfast and approved 19th February 1914. Posted as Private.

Description of Albert Teeney on enlistment.

• Apparent Age: 17
• Height: 5ft 5 1/2″
• Weight: 119lbs
• Chest Measurement: Girth when fully expanded 35″ / range of expansion 3″
• Eyes: Blue
• Hair: Light Brown
• Brown mark below right shoulder blade

18th February to 17 April 1914
Recruitment Training

1st May 1914
Musketry Training

13th May 1914 – Finner Camp, Enniskillen
Conduct: Not complying with an ?????
Punishment: 8 days conifined to barracks.

1st August 1914
Mobilised – Posted to Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 2nd Battalion*

*2nd Battalion (1)
August 1914 : in Dover. Part of 12th Brigade in 4th Division. Moved to Norfolk.
Landed at Le Havre 22 August 1914.
6 December 1914 : transferred as GHQ Troops.

9th January 1915 – Ballyliffin
Conduct: Absent from 7pm 9th until 7pm 11th
Punishment: Admonished 12.1.15 Forfeits 3 days pay.

*2nd Battalion (1)
26 January 1915 : transferred to 5th Brigade in 2nd Division.

6th April 1915 – Clonmany
Conduct: Overstaying his pass from tattoo until about 6.50pm whilst on active service.
Punishment: 7 days conifined to barracks. Forfeits 3 days pay.

*2nd Battalion (1)
22 July 1915: transferred as Army Troops to Third Army.
8 November 1915 : transferred to 14th Brigade in 5th Division.
24 December 1915 : transferred to 96th Brigade in 32nd Division.

10th August 1916
Appointed Unpaid Lance Corporal

2nd May 1917
Appointed Paid Lance Corporal

26th May 1917
Reverted to Private

*2nd Battalion (1)
3 February 1918 : transferred to 109th Brigade in 36th (Ulster) Division.

26th March 1918
Dangeriously ill, gunshot wound to chest. General Hospital Rouen.

26th March 1918
Seriously ill. General Hospital Rouen (2)

16th April 1918
2 Southern General Hospital, Bristol

20th April 1918
Relitives notified

23rd April 1918
Dangeriously ill, 2 Southern General Hospital, Bristol

11th April 1918
Posted to Depot

21st March 1919
Transfered to Special Army Reserve.
Discharged from service: Gunshot Wound to left shoulder.

Sources:

1. http://www.1914-1918.net/skins.htm
2. The Medical Front WW1