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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Antrim => Topic started by: ardmoulin on Friday 01 August 08 02:31 BST (UK)
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I am looking for information regarding Margaret Jane Rafferty who in 1944 was listed as a servant at 2 Hill Street Belfast, I have recently been told that she was from Ballyclare and was killed in a bicycle accident in 1944, between February and June of that year. To date I have unable to ascertain as to whether this is true. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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have you tried Northern irelands registrar for births and of course for deaths. Next I would be trying the Ballyclare churches. You will find addresses and websites etc on Google for adresses etc. Here if you have any knowledge of her denomination, you could reduce the list. In 1944 Ballyclare was probably surrounded with our allies American and Belgian? troops. ie the poulation would hasve been tripled or more nad acars and bikes dont mix. Ballyclare doesnt have its own website does it? Hope that keeps you going a bit, Jim
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Have you sent you a PM to encourage you onwards, Jim
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Hi Jim,thanks for reply. Think the Ballyclare connection is not true as Registrar has no record of death that year, and birth record search didnt reveal anything helpful as our info was too vague. I am trying to trace this person who is the birth mother of my husband and the only info we have is that she was a servant in Hill St, Belfast, commercial premises at the time of his birth, which was in the Belfast Jubilee hospital, As Rafferty is a common name and we dont know which county she was from, its like a needle in haystack. We ve been to Public
Records office but with little information we were unable to get anywhere. If you any idea where else to try Id be very grateful
Regards
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ardmoulin Sent as pm although I don’t like doing this normally as the more people who see the more chance of abetter answer
1944 Newsletter obituary, death notice or just a report. As far as I know there isn’t an index as such to the several newspapers that existed.
My memory is that the LinenHall Library, Belfast had cutting books filled with chopped up entries from the Belfast Newsletter for BMD’s I worked in the library and my boss Jimmy Vitty took them home to do the pasting in monthly. he was doing this in 1960 but I cant remember when they started. They exist on the reference floor beside the Books relating to Ireland section. Much more recently on a rare visit to NI, I remember there is recently a large card index of something like BMDs also nearby. You could ask them ie Linen Hall Library,17 Donegall Square North, Belfast BT15GB, Northern Ireland, Telephone: +44 (0)28 9032 1707, Fax: +44 (0)28 9043 8586, Email: <irish.reference[at]linenhall.com>.
The Belfast Telegraph has index called Eddies extracts http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~econnolly/miscellaneous.html but Eddies extracts are missing for 1944 you could write a letter to the Editor
The Irish News now has an indexing system but I dont think its started until1996 you could write a letter to the Editor. Most likely if Margaret Jane Rafferty was a catholic.
Lets think about Hill Street see www.lennonwylie.co.uk/belfast.htm Mary Lennon is very approachable, ask her or study first her look up system, she has a 1944 street directory might be wise to ask that 1943 is also looked up/ You can get the flavour if you look the 1910 directory. What I suggest is you get the entire entry for Hill Street 1944 and see if any of the commercial companies had a connection to say Ballyclare or who would be wealthy enough to have servants if that is the correct description for her appointment… Would that employer have put a death notice in the paper?
in 1910 see Hill Street Waring Street to Talbot Street
Lets think about the Belfast Jubilee hospital records war time more likely to be kept in some ways rather than in peacetime. Ask for help on Belfast Forum for whereabouts of recorda 1944 and earlier Has your husband got a full copy of his berth certificate
I noticed you had another query re Fr Maguire and wondered if he had connections to Rafferty as such. If you know the chapel where he worked, records might exist. Now must stop , I wish you luck onwards, Jim
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The Belfast Telegraph has index called Eddies extracts http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~econnolly/miscellaneous.html but Eddies extracts are missing for 1944 you could write a letter to the Editor
Just like to say thanks for mentioning my website but should point out it has nothing to do with the Telegraph as indicated and has not only extracts from the Belfast Telegraph but the Belfast Newsletter, The Witness, Irish News etc and you should use the link http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~econnolly/ which will link to the home page where you can do a search
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eddiec, sorry my pm to Ardmoulin with the reference to your great website was so wobbly. I stand very corrected. Jim
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eddiec, sorry my pm to Ardmoulin with the reference to your great website was so wobbly. I stand very corrected. Jim
Hi Jim
It's not a problem :) sure if people didn't get it wobbly at times we would all have great family trees... lol
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;D, Eddie your terrible!, Jim