Hi i am just looking some information about my parents.. It was my mothers 21st birthday easter tuesday 1941. I was just wondering does anyone remember the trainors or oconnors who lived in ponsenby avenue antrim road the night of the blitz Thanks Rosaleen
Hi Rosaleen and welcome to the forum. I take it that you are giving an address in North Belfast? Fingers crossed that you get some response eventually.
Hi Rosaleen Have you tried contacting the local newspaper to see if they will run an article for you. It might help. Or perhaps the local council might have records. Nicola
Hi and welcome, Rosaleen. Thanks to Geoffs Search Engine, there were 21 deaths of civilians during that Blitz, plus 3 more on 5th May (Det Sgt Wilson and family) but no Trainors or O'Connors and none from Ponsonby Avenue. Maybe some of these Names will ring a bell though?? 001 BENTON W - - 16/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 002 BILL T - - 16/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 003 BRADLEY S - - 16/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 004 BRADLEY E - - 16/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 005 BRADLEY M - - 16/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 006 BROWN MJ - - 16/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 007 BROWN G - - 16/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 008 BROWN G - - 16/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 009 DORMAN M - - 15/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 010 DORMAN A - - 15/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 011 DUFFY SMC - - 16/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 012 DUFFY J - - 16/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 013 DUFFY J - - 16/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 014 DUFFY K - - 16/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 015 FAUX CY - - 16/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 016 IRVINE G - - 16/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 017 MCCLOSKEY GP - - 16/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 018 ORR R - - 16/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 019 PHILLIPS EW - - 16/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 020 REDMAN MEF - - 16/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD 021 TURPIN JH - - 20/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD Unfortunately, a night to remember for her, for the wrong reasons. Still, I hope she more than made up for it. EDIT: These are just the ones with an address on Antrim Road, there may well be more elsewhere that I haven't picked up.... I don't want to give the impression that only 21 died....
Hi and welcome, Rosaleen. Thanks to Geoffs Search Engine, there were 21 deaths of civilians during that Blitz, Kevin Fraid getting a list via G's SE would be a difficult and lengthy process - The search engine can't search for Belfast casualties because the criteria often does not include Belfast in the address. Also the date should start with the 15th. Belfast Blitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Over 900 lives were lost, 1,500 people were injured, 400 of them seriously. Fifty-thousand houses, more than half the houses in the city, were damaged. Eleven churches, two hospitals and two schools were destroyed. These figures are based on newspaper reports of the time, personal recollections and other primary sources ... ... The mortuary services had emergency plans to deal with only 200 bodies. In the event, the public baths on the Falls Road and on Peter's Hill, and the large fruit market, Saint George's market, were used as mortuaries. One hundred and fifty corpses remained in the Falls Road baths for three days before they were buried in a mass grave, with 123 still unidentified. Two hundred and fifty-five corpses were laid out in St George's Market. Many bodies and body parts could not be identified. Mass graves for the unclaimed bodies were dug in the Milltown and City Cemeteries. http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/172506-post16.html Not all casualties were from and/or buried in the main Belfast cemeteries either - My husband's grand aunt was the same age as Rosaleen's mother. Volunteer BETTY BURLEIGH W/39496, Auxiliary Territorial Service who died age 21 between 15 April 1941 and 16 April 1941 Daughter of William and Mary Burleigh, of Florencecourt. Remembered with honour KILLESHER CHURCH OF IRELAND CHURCHYARD CWGC :: Casualty Details
Sorry to disagree, Diane, but if you look up any of those in my List, you will see that there is a Reporting Authority: "Belfast, County Borough, N Ireland". (It doesn't need to have specific cemeteries, if they occurred in Belfast, that's recorded). Clicking on that leads you to the information of 868 Civilian War Dead. Clicking on the "Cemetery Reports" tab then gives all the Names in alphabetical order. Admittedly, it doesn't then sort by Date, but it's an indication... You can then go back to GSE and search by Date for Civilian War Dead and cross refer to the Belfast Cemetery Reports.. As I said, that first search was using "Antrim Road", no deaths with that address were recorded for the 14th, but it did have 15th as well as 16th casualties... So, yes it CAN search for Belfast casualties...
I'll consider myself well and truly slapped down then about the dates; the point remains unfortunately that you did give me the impression with your first sentence that 21 people died in the raid. I do now see your edited comment.
