::: Newry Journal ::: - Stream Street 1909

Even today, Stream Street residents are an eclectic mix of both sides of our divided community and it is clear from the above list – to sad individuals like myself who can read a person’s likely religious affiliation from their name! - that it was also so a century ago.

It is among the oldest of our residential streets and today contains just two business premises along its entire length – Billy O’Hara’s pub being one of these.

2	W J Gordon
3	David Forsyth
5	William Henry
7	Thomas Irwin
9	Robert Heslip
11	Hanna Fegan
13	James Moran
21	Mary Murphy
25	William McKeague
31	Marth J McCulla
37	Francis Kane
39	William Hooks
40	John Kearney
41	Robert Smith
42	James Heslip
43	James Hazlett
45	Mary A Anderson
47	William NcAnuff
48	Thomas Hutchinson
49	A Littlewood
50	J Mallaghan
51	Joseph Weir
52	William Gamble
56	Hugh Cunningham
57	George Walker
59	David Fleming
60	John Sterritt
61	Catherine McDonald
62	Mary A Heatley
62a	Mary A Arnold
63	Edward Caulfield
63a	Joseph Mulgrew
64	Samuel Smith
65	William Marshall
66	S Smith Jr
67	Thomas Cox
69	Sarah Young
73	M McAteer
74	Annie Small
101	Waddell Morrow
105	William Lockhart
113	David Boyd
115	Joseph Martin

Perhaps of note is the number of ownerships/occupiers ascribed to females: it is speculated that the majority of these were likely to have been widows.

Also interesting is the two sub-divided houses 62a and 63a. Small enough to begin with, it is difficult to imagine how these homes could have been sub-divided and sub-let.

Are any of these homes still owned in the same family name as then? Or even occupied by direct descendents?

Can any of our readers shed any light on this interesting subject?

Our sympathies to the family of Mr Pat McAteer who hailed from a few hundred yards from here, and whose funeral service was conducted this morning in The Cathedral.