🧐🧐🧐... head scratching here. I use BNA.... and did a search yesterday but nil results. did an advanced search..
If you have any search tips then i’m All ears
You're right, BNA initially brought back nothing for me, every search I do on that website is like trial and error, I got lucky by eventually trying every possible variation of the name and also by searching for anything containing the exact phrase
off Nelson Street and the word
Court. And in relation to the name, the other thing I've discovered on BNA is that
Mc often isn't recognised since the original newspaper often prints it as
M'. So for example, if I'm looking for someone called
McDaid, I will search for both that and
M'Daid. Infuriatingly though, when you search for the latter, the finds that come back don't show you a little contextual summary up front, you have to go in and read what it's about, which is time consuming.
I've also just noticed a reference to a little girl called
'Bridget Mallon (McKiller's Court)' finding a body in nearby Duncrue Street in September 1895.
It's interesting that in addition to Hendron being the occupiers of 139-141 Nelson Street in 1951 and 1960, that they also had this listing for Trafalgar Street:
1951: 40-46. Hendron & Co., scrap metal stores1960: 40-46. Hendron Bros. (Belfast), Ltd., scrap metal storesSince the entrance to McKiller's Court was listed as being immediately beside no. 139 Nelson Street, it would suggest that at some stage (probably before the Hendrons came along) it was sold off and demolished to link through to 40-46 Trafalgar Street, creating one bigger yard, shown as the 'dog leg' space in the 1952 - 1965 map extract. The last street directory mention of the Court I can see (ie. as residence) is in 1907, it's gone in the 1908 directory.