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Re: Belfast Directorys after 1911
« Reply #9 on: Friday 16 April 21 16:58 BST (UK) »
Would yous know where John Rowley Faulkner is buried?

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Re: Belfast Directorys after 1911
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 17 April 21 11:31 BST (UK) »
Would yous know where John Rowley Faulkner is buried?

Going by 1911 census this looks to be his wife Jane's death notice-
Belfast Telegraph, 28 Mar.1958: FAULKNER—_ 17, 1958, at her daughter's residence, 5 Hanby Street, Jane, dearly-loved wife of the late John Rowley Faulkner and beloved mother of Lindsay ... also of Samuel and Thomas in America and ... Funeral tomorrow (Saturday), at 10 ... Redburn[?] Cemetery, Holywood...

Though it would be quite likely husband John also buried there but according to this Youtube video it opened in 1954-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRr8eJ2OnIg

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Down/Victoria__part_of_/Church_Street_East/224588/

His death notice gives place of burial -
Belfast Telegraph, 24 Dec.1928: ... MILITARY LODGE. The interment took place to-day in St. Mark's Churchyard, Armagh, with military honours, of the late Mr. John R. Faulkner, a prominent Orangeman and a veteran of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, whose death occurred at his residence, 42 Dee Street ...
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Re: Belfast Directorys after 1911
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 17 April 21 14:39 BST (UK) »
Thank you. Went looking this morning for his grave. Sadly there's no record of his plot, but the family knows more now than did. There over the moon, thank you again.. Dee

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Re: Belfast Directorys after 1911
« Reply #12 on: Friday 23 April 21 09:57 BST (UK) »
We found the grave of John Rowley Faulkner and his son John Rowley at St marks.