Ulster Street Directories can be of great help to people researching
their Irish ancestors.
These have a great deal of information relating to gentry, professional
classes, merchants, market towns and ports in Ulster.
You will find here descriptions of towns and surrounding countryside,
names and addresses of butchers, cobblers, as well as places of worship
and locations of schools.
These valuable sources of information may be inspected at the Public
Record Office of Northern Ireland, Balmoral Avenue, Belfast.
Directories to be found there include:
Slater's Directory of Ireland
Pigot's Commercial Directory of Ireland
Thom's Offical Directory of Great Britain and Ireland
Martin's Belfast Directory
Matier's Belfast Directory
Belfast and Provinence of Ulster/Northern Ireland Directory
Henderson's Belfast and Province of Ulster Directory
Thomas Bradshaw's General Directory of Newry, Armagh, Dungannon,
Portadown, Tandragee, Lurgan, Waringstown, Banbridge, Warrenbridge,
Rostrevor, Kilkeel, and Rathfriland.
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John Caughey
Email: john(a)caughey.demon.co.uk
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