Posts Tagged ‘Belfast’
Alan Godfrey Ordinance Maps are invaluable for historians and genealogists. More than 2,500 titles have been issued in this major series of reprints of Old Ordinance Survey Maps of towns throughout Britain & Ireland. The list below contains the complete catalogue for Ireland & Northern Ireland. You can visit the Alan Godfrey Map Store here.
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.
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).
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.
This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection – an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Unknown sailor, 12th Sept 1942. HMS Impregnable Training Base
I have found half a photograph of a young Royal Navy sailor, he is unknown and I would like to try and identify him. The photo was found in a personal collection belonging to either Mary Clarke or Albert Teeney’s family.
He is wearing a cap with what seems to have H.M.S. Impregnable on it. I have looked into other bases and ships but this seems to be the only candidate. This photo has been cut down the middle so the left portion is missing.
On the reverse of the photo in pencil is written:
12 Sept. 1942
Left
Again this may or may not be the fill inscription due to the photo being trimmed.
As far as I can tell H.M.S. Impregnable was a training base for ‘hostile only’ communications ratings at Plymouth / Devonport betweeen 1935-1947. After decommissioning H.M.S. Impregnable was reopened soon after, remaining in commission until 1948.
Any information you may have would be greatly appreciated.
UPDATE
Mum may have just had a memory recall… the chap in the photo could possibly be a Madden from Oregon St. Belfast. A friend of the Teeney family.