Colleen, This will not be of much help to you. But it might give you the flavour of the location. The only street I'm familiar with is York Street which still exists and is the northern extension of Royal Avenue running through the city centre. I've looked for Abbotsford Place and Cherrymount (St.?) and found nothing. Now on the 1920 map of Belfast I can see that 243 York St. didn't exist. In fact this address is on the east side of York Street where the Midland Railway was located. So I would guess that whatever existed between Whitla St. and Milewater St. was cleared for the railway. This distance is just over 1/4 mile. According to extracts from the 1920 directory: Hanna Street intersects York St. then going north on York St. 220 E. McFall, Publican 222 Express Dairy and Tea Stores (A.Armstrong Ltd.) 224 F.Smith, Confectioner and Greengrocer 226 G.Hart, House Furnisher 228 Wm. McKnight Hairdresser 230 Jane Bowman,Hardware Dealer 232 S Barrett, Painter 234 A.Loughridge, shoemaker 236 Mrs. Agnes Anderson 2361/2 G.H.Hart, Stores 238 H. Armstrong, Bootmaker 240 Jos. Gourley Grocer and Egg merchant 242 Samuel Compton, Confectioner 244 M&E Hart Drapers 246 Mary McConville. Tobacconist 248 Sarah Harrison, Confectioner and Tobacconist The Queens Picture House 258 Salvation Army Hall 260-62 Robert Wilson and W.R.E.Wilson MDs 264 Ulster Bakery If you go to the map that Barbara referred us to yesterday at http://www.belfast.net/mo/belfast.JPG 243 York St. was just about where the "R" of York St. appears but on the railway side of the street. Good luck. James ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 8:57 AM Subject: Re: Tryone St ? > James, I noticed your kind reply to the NIR-ANTRIM post regarding information > about the location of Tyrone St in Belfast. Perhaps you could also help me > locate the whereabouts of some ancestors who lived, according to a letter > they wrote in 1867, at Abbotsford Place, 243 York St, Belfast. According to > their gravetone, when they died in 1891, they had lived at Cherrymount, > Belfast. I've looked at a contemporary map of Belfast but couldn't quite > figure out where these addresses were. Thanks for any help. ~ Colleen in St > Paul, Minnesota, USA > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >