1	Patrick Keenan
2	Eliza E McClorey
3	James Dunne
4	James O’Hanlon
5	Edward Fullerton
6	James Kean
8	Susan McGrane
10	James Braniff
11	Isabella Morgan
12	James McCarthy
15	Mary Brady
17	Daniel Hillen
18	William Connellan
19	Ernest Jones
20	Catherine Byrne
21	John Tomany
24	Alice Donnelly
26	Luke Hollywood
29	Michael McConville
31	Hugh Rooney
32	Patrick McKevitt
33	Mary Marley
34	Patrick McLoughlin
35	James Brady
37	Patrick Rooney
38	Michael Falloon
39	James Torley
41	Rose O’Hanlon
42	Thomas Lundy
44	J McAteer & Son

 

Mary Street Newry

Almost one in three of these homes of St Mary’s Street in the year of 1917 were held in the name of a woman occupant. Even in today’s emancipated world, such a percentage is unheard of. Two factors probably contributed. Women live longer. And, more importantly, this was wartime and many menfolk were fighting at the Somme or on the other Green Fields of France – many too, never to return.

Many of our town’s best known surnames are included. Was James Braniff a forebear of Peter Braniff, solicitor? Is Michael Falloon a predecessor of our reader, Gene? Was William a father to the famous Joe Connellan, public representative?

Certainly this list, like those that went before and others to follow, should be of immense help to Newry folk in search of their ancestors!