Allie Nickell

All opinions my own, unless I've nicked them because they're better.
Prodigal daughter of Belfast, ex-Londoner. Tweets about art, genealogy, & life in general.

[Allie Nickell @alliethinks]

@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!

[Allie Nickell @alliethinks]

@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).

[Allie Nickell @alliethinks]

@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. https://t.co/MuDm33dcwJ

[Allie Nickell @alliethinks]

@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.

[Allie Nickell @alliethinks]

@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!

[Allie Nickell @alliethinks]

@Edward__Burke @StreetnamesBelf @JJCONeill This might be useful too. https://t.co/eQEU5JRuBy

[Allie Nickell @alliethinks]

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

[Allie Nickell @alliethinks]

@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.

[Allie Nickell @alliethinks]

@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...?

[A!dan McPeake @aidan_mcp]

Belfast under blanket of fog. Rocky Road.

[Allie Nickell @alliethinks]

@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.

[Allie Nickell @alliethinks]

@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.

[Allie Nickell @alliethinks]

@AineDonnghaile It was.

[Allie Nickell @alliethinks]

@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?

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[Dr Kate Strasdin @kateStrasdin]

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