Identify Address?

[AlanBoyd]

from The Belfast And Province Of Ulster Directory 1900 it would seem that going along Oldpark Road there was a sequence of intersections with:

Ballymena Street
Ballycastle Street
Ballynure Street
Ballyclare Street

Finniston Terrace (6 residents listed) lay between the intersections with Ballycastle Street and Ballynure Street. Here is the 1901/1904 OS 6 inch map showing the layout (Ballycastle Street isn't labelled).

https://maps.nls.uk/view/247665938#zoom=7.0&lat=7935&lon=15314&layers=BT

[gaffy]

... The marriages seem to be within the same family - the husbands were maybe cousins?

I've literally only glanced at this, but a newspaper obituary for John Dale Lowans in 1935 points the family history back to Newry.  There's a Newry marriage of a William Lowans and Mary Hoy (Hence the Hoy middle name for John Dale Lowans' daughter Jane?) in 1868, also a Newry marriage for a James Lowans and Ann Dickey in 1848, in both cases the groom's father was recorded as John Lowans a shoemaker, so just a possibility to follow up.

[gaffy]

John Dale Lowans' birth in 1871, parents William Lowans and Margaret Hoy/Hoey?:

https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1871/03301/2210010.pdf

Added: I can't find a birth record for Thomas, so I'm guessing his age was slightly understated in his marriage record and that his birth was before civil registration of same started in 1864.  But for now, James Lowans and Ann Dickey remain a possibility for his parents.

[Leon47]

All good stuff, thanks.

I'd found that birth registration myself. I've also found one family and the father living with them in the 1901 Census but they're in another house. And yes, the occupations do look like you've found.

I've found it now on the GRONI street directory of 1895, thanks gaffy. Although it's Finiston Terrace on that.

So yes, the two husbands seemed to be living with JE Adams at that address at the time of the wedding, lodging perhaps?

I still can't find Feniston/Finiston Terrace anywhere in lennonwylie, although I did spot 'Finiston National Schools' in Como Terrace, on Old Park Road. I would have been good to find it.

Thanks everyone.

[Leon47]

Thanks again. That info came in while I was typing. Yes I have that birth registration and yes the family originated in Dromalane Newry (lots of family births around there before moving to Belfast).

I'll have a look for your info AlanBoyd. Cheers.

[gaffy]

... I've found it now on the GRONI street directory of 1895, thanks gaffy. Although it's Finiston Terrace on that.

It gets both spellings in various sources, in the 1895 street directory I looked at (NIDirect) it's a double "NN".

[gaffy]

... I still can't find Feniston/Finiston Terrace anywhere in lennonwylie, although I did spot 'Finiston National Schools' in Como Terrace, on Old Park Road. I would have been good to find it.

Thanks everyone.

It does appear in some later directories (listed under the Oldpark Road), for example:

https://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/nopcomplete1901.htm

[Leon47]

... The marriages seem to be within the same family - the husbands were maybe cousins?

I've literally only glanced at this, but a newspaper obituary for John Dale Lowans in 1935 points the family history back to Newry.  There's a Newry marriage of a William Lowans and Mary Hoy (Hence the Hoy middle name for John Dale Lowans' daughter Jane?) in 1868, also a Newry marriage for a James Lowans and Ann Dickey in 1848, in both cases the groom's father was recorded as John Lowans a shoemaker, so just a possibility to follow up.

Very interesting, thank. Newspapers again! I'm still delaying getting a subscription to one or others that will give this sort of information. Can't seem to make my mind up and posts like this just tempt tantalise me.

Actually Dickey rings some sort of bell. I haven't recorded that in my program but maybe I came across it in a search and discounted it. I must follow that up.

[Leon47]

from The Belfast And Province Of Ulster Directory 1900 it would seem that going along Oldpark Road there was a sequence of intersections with:

Ballymena Street
Ballycastle Street
Ballynure Street
Ballyclare Street

Finniston Terrace (6 residents listed) lay between the intersections with Ballycastle Street and Ballynure Street. Here is the 1901/1904 OS 6 inch map showing the layout (Ballycastle Street isn't labelled).

https://maps.nls.uk/view/247665938#zoom=7.0&lat=7935&lon=15314&layers=BT

Perfect - I see that. So the Terrace is actually on the Old park road - it's not a street off it. Thanks.