> 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 gravestone, 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 Working from the 1852 Directory, Abbotsford Place comes after 141 York Street. 139 was Mrs Eagleson, 141 John Wm. M'Cracken, notary public, (his business address was 25 Corporation Street), then there were two new houses building, then a new shop building, then Fleet Street, then Abbotsford Place and then Ship Street. Soon after that it became York Road - and still was on the 1920 map, and today. By 1920 Abbotsford Place was invisible, although Fleet Street and Ship Street were still there. I'd suspect you are actually looking for 143, not 243, York Street, which would have been one of the houses being built in 1852. Nos. 141-153 are listed in the Central Belfast Historical Gazetteer as being of early 19th Century construction, still surviving in 1959. If anything has survived it will be opposite the Yorkgate Shopping Centre, with railway and motorway immediately to the east and almost parallel to York Street. Chris Morgan Sheffield