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Re: Belfast streets 1887
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 11 April 12 20:29 BST (UK) »
You should have no trouble finding Hillman Street.  About 1 mile from Belfast city centre on the right of Antrim Road, facing a large ornate church. There is a mural ' Forest of Belfast' on the facing wall of Hillman Street.
There are still some of the original houses there but it is very likely that the original site of Carnarvon Terrace will have a modern dwelling on it. But you never know.
Best of luck. 

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Re: Belfast streets 1887
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 12 April 12 10:08 BST (UK) »
Thank you for your help.  I hope to get to Belfast in the autumn and will tour Hillman Street and the Ravenhill Road then.   :)

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Re: Belfast streets 1887
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 12 April 12 11:15 BST (UK) »
mysterious g.
Here is the entry from 1918 Belfast Street Directory
..........Ravenhill Avenue intersects
                           Ravenhill Terrace
234. Ross, rev. John, minister Ravenhill Presbyterian Church
236. Stevenson, W., traveller
238. Johnston, Saml., inspector Belfast Banking Co. Ltd.
                           
So he lived a couple of houses along from Ravenhill Avenue
Rosemary Joan
Cully, Bannister, McConnell, Wallace (Co. Armagh)  Anderson, Ross (Co. Antrim), Gray, Truesdale (Co. Down)
McCormick (Killyleagh and finally Belfast)

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Re: Belfast streets 1887
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 12 April 12 23:53 BST (UK) »
Thank you!  I know the family lived there for quite a long time and by that time he was a widower with five children (although one daughter was married and away from home).  I think the house was in a terrace called Evelyn Villas, judging by the address in my father's old stamp album.  I am better acquainted with the house my grandfather  eventually moved to.  Thank you for your help.  :)
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