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Dublin / Re: Gullistan Cottages
« on: Wednesday 13 October 10 22:58 BST (UK)  »
Hi Guys,

I came across this thread as I'm interested in St. Mary's Terrace, Richmond Hill - The Sherrin Family led me to this address. I haven't read all the thread but there are 2 things I'm aware of:

1. I think St. Mary's Terrace stood where the community centre now stands - right about where the red line/ arrow ends on the map.

2. Numbers & renumbering on the 1901 & 1911 Census. I think there is a big problem here that might be misleading a lot of people. The numbers given on the site only correspond to the numbers used on the enumerators forms NOT the house number. The only way you will know the actual house number is to look at the other side of form A usually scanned as A2. This is not always present on the site - seems to be there for 1911 but not 1901. Granted a lot of the time the house number & form number match in 1911 but there is no way of knowing the house number in 1901 without seeing this form.

HMC

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Antrim / Re: where is urban number 7
« on: Saturday 11 November 06 20:38 GMT (UK)  »
Hi again,

Come to think of it I can't see how 91 Albertbridge Road could be in Castlereagh, surely it's Belfast. I have 306 Albertbridge Road as BU12 in 1917, and Clermont Lane (used to at the bottom of Woodstock / Albertbridge) as Belfast in 1895.

HMC

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Antrim / Re: where is urban number 7
« on: Saturday 11 November 06 20:35 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all,

Castlereagh No. 1 in 1885  - I'm not so sure about this. As discussed earlier districts change over time and as far as I can make out GRO only recorded the district as Castlereagh back then. The address is probably now in Castlereagh No. 1.

If you look at the GRO index they have a District and a Centre. The Centre I think has only been used since 1972 / 3 which is the date from which the current councils exist. So I presume prior to 1972 / 3 everthing was just registered as Castlereagh, and since 1972 / 3 it has been No1, No2 etc.

The exception to this is Belfast which has been recording 'sub-districts' for many many years, anything from BU1 to BU16. I presume this is due to the numbers in Belfast.

Interestingly, although frustrating, is the fact that GRO can tell you which Belfast District a street is in but they are unable to tell you all the streets in a given district.

While I'm on about it are we soon going to have  'Inner East', and 'North West' recorded as districts as the councils are due to become super councils in the next few years.

HMC

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Antrim / Re: where is urban number 7
« on: Saturday 23 September 06 14:39 BST (UK)  »
Hi everybody,

Just new to this forum and it was Urban Districts that sucked me in.

I haven't read all of the posts but I thought I would add my tuppenceworth. I have different Belfast Urban districts for the same street which led me to think that the urban distrcit was the place of registration - not birth / death. If however streets can have more than one urban then tht's the explanation. I have several districts - given a BUxx on the GRO index where xx is anything from 1 to 16, plus just B, for Belfast as I've seem Ban - for I presume Banbridge, but it could be Bangor, although I would assume Bangor would be Dow - for Down. Anyway, I have a variety of districts recorded. So my final question to all out there is about the district where the event is registered. If you event (birth/death) is in Belfast and you register in Castlereagh, is the registration district Castlereagh or is it the district of where the event too place?

Can you even register an event from another district or will the District Registrar chase you to another office once they here an address?

HMC

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