Notes

Originally part of the same building as no.62, but subdivided before 1859, (HB05/13/011).

According to Linda Hatton (08/01/24 and 28/02/24), outbuilding with external staircase thought to pre-date the main 18th century building.

HB05/13/011.

An Alexander McLean is names under ‘painters and glaziers’ in Slater’s 1846 and 1856 Directories

HB05/13/011

Griffith’s Valuation

SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.

SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.

SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.

SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.

SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.

SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.

SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.

Census – building no. 75

Margaret Kennedy, head of family

Agnes Rachel McComb, 23, servant, Presbyterian, grocery shop assistant, not married

Mary Isabella Smyth, 20, servant, RC, grocery shop assistant, not married

SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.

SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.

JMcC research.

Census – building no. 80

HB05/13/011

According to Linda Hatton (08/01/24 and 28/02/24), the shop served as a bar and spirit grocers until 1922 when it became just a grocers. Linda thinks this might have been to do with new laws after Partition.

Linda reports the story of a bank robbery in the 1920s – robbers ran into the bar and threw the money behind the bar to keep it safe.

Working group review (10/04/25) identified the year of the robbery as 1922 but noted that an alternative version of the story linked the events with Etta Scally at no.25 across the road:

Westminster Gazette Thursday 30/03/1922

ULSTER BANK RAID. ARMED MEN GET AWAY WITH £7,000.

The biggest bank robbery in Ulster for a generation took place yesterday afternoon.

Three undisguised men, wearing overcoats and caps, and armed with revolvers, entered the branch of the Ulster Bank at Ballycastle, Antrim, and demanded the keys from the manager and cashier. They locked the two officials in a small room, after informing them that the money was for the Catholic boycotted workers of Belfast and the bank would be recouped.

Ten minutes afterwards the manager, with the aid of a pen knife, got the door open, but the raiders had decamped. It is reported that about £7,000 was taken.

JMcC research suggests Willaim James Scally’s mother, Mary Ann, was never married and died in the workhouse in June 1903.

HB05/13/011

JMcC research names Willie Kinney’s pork shop as having been here. This is supported by Linda Hatton who notes a butcher’s shop on the site until the 1950s.

HB05/13/011

JMcC research states William Scally’s brother, Johnny Scally, was a tailor. He and his wife Nora (nee McGill)) opened a drapery in the building and the business was carried on by their daughter Nora until she retired in 2001.

According to Linda Hatton, the drapery was run by Margaret Scally and then her daughter (in law?) Nora Scally. Nora’s husband was Johnny Scally the town postman. They kept hens and a cockerel (1970s-80s?). Hen house still to rear of building.

Spoke to Linda by phone 08/01/24 and 28/02/24. Rear extension later than 18th century building. When lifting the floor for renovations, Linda found the underfloor foundations built on piles of gin bottles. A brick with child’s foot in museum collection (E084) came from yard behind no.62.