This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Toner, Belfast Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DYC.2ACE/405.1 Message Board Post: The 1843 Directory for Belfast lists a Patrick Toner, Provision Store, 165 North Street. Possibly he is a brother or father of William ? There is also a Charles Tonner, Jobbing Smith of 7 Falls Road. Toner comes from O Tomhrair from a Norse personal name. This family of the Cinel Eoghain possessed property on the banks of the Foyle River and later moved into Co. Derry. It has always been numerous in Ulster, particularly now in Counties Armagh and Derry (MacLysaght - Irish surnames).