Though just a boy, I had kept a dry eye throughout this departure.  Not so my grandfather Old Felix. Tears were coursing down the old man’s deeply-grooved cheeks.

This is the second part of those promised lists of Warrenpoint residents of ninety years ago!

My friend Isobel McMahon (nee Tohill of Warrenpoint) might think I have forgotten her so, by way of compensation, here is a list of some residents of Warrenpoint some ninety years ago.

I had hardly lain down it seemed to me, before it was time to get up again on that fateful departure day. The sun had risen and light flooded into the bedroom through the east-facing window.
 

He was not the first of her children to leave. A daughter had parted for England years before. But there was always the chance to see her again. This parting was different.

The story of unwilling Irish emigrants to Canada

If you check on Google Earth, you will find that St Bride’s, Alberta, Canada is on a similar latitude to Newry but being in the centre of the North American continent, it experiences a radically different climate.  

There was not a single family the same in Sinclair Street in 1914 as those we earlier listed from the 1940s. Here is the earlier list ….

A photo worthy of the lovely Janine Masters herself though this one was supplied instead by Gerry Monaghan, brother of our recently-deceased dear friend Donal.

The location is George’s Lane, off Lower Mill Street.

Fred McIlroy wondered where the odd numbers of Hill Street a century ago went to. Well, just for you, here they are, from Kildare Street to Hyde Market!