Bog Road, Pottinger

[HistoryTeam]

I have come across an address for a relative in the 1911 Census - Bog Road, Pottinger (no house number). However this street doesn't seem to appear in the Belfast Street Directories around the time. Does anyone have any idea whereabouts Bog Road might have been in (East?) Belfast? The name suggests somewher near the River Lagan.

Thank you

[aghadowey]

Looked up residents of Bog Road in 1911 Census and found a thomas Thompson, Kerr (tailor). When I searched for him in 1910 Belfast directory I found the following entry: Kerr, Thos., tailor, Low Bog, Newtownards Road Upper. Then went to street listings and found this under Newtownards Road:
The Low Bog
       Thompson, A., labourer
       McClements, Jas., brick layer
       Morrow, Mrs.
       Corry, Robt., cloth passer
       Mawhinney, Robert, labourer
       Robinson, Richard, labourer
       White, J. R., boiler maker
       Kerr, Thomas, tailor

http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/nopcomplete1910.htm

Does this help?

[Elwyn Soutter]

The general area around the bottom end of the Newtownards Rd and the east side of the Lagan all used to be very boggy land before it was developed in the late 1700s/early 1800s. The Lagan had a completely different course and used to flow through it in places. (Queens Island used to be an island, for example, accessed by ferry before it became first a pleasure park and then a shipyard). A lot of work was then done over the years to deepen the river, and to narrow and alter its course to facilitate shipping and ship building. Part of these works led to most of the bog land being drained and then built on, though early houses in the area often suffered from excessive damp, which in turn caused major health problems for years.

[HistoryTeam]

Thank you for your replies but I'm still a little confused!!

White, J. R. Boiler Maker was my relative which seems to suggest Bog Road and Low Bog are the same place. However, the listings seem to place Low Bog on the Upper Newtownards Road probably in the vicinity of what is now the Stormont Hotel. Would this have been in Pottinger Ward in c1910? Pottinger Ward is presently listed as
1: Ballymacarrett
2: Bloomfield
3: Orangefield
4: Ravenhill
5: The Mount
6: Woodstock

Thanks for your patience

[aghadowey]

Here's your John White in 1911 census-
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Down/Pottinger__part_of_/Bog_Road/227835
This page shows Barony as Lower Castlereagh-
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai002198850/

Also listed in 1910 Belfast directory under Newtownards Road- The Low Bog, White, J. R., boiler maker

I think I found him in Ulster Covenant signatures with address as Vive Villas Newtownards Rd.:
http://applications.proni.gov.uk/UlsterCovenant/image.aspx?image=M0051920008

By 1918 he's listed as "White, John R., boiler maker, 29 Glencollyer Street"
http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/alphanames1918TUVWXYZ.htm

[RosemaryJoan]

looking at my old maps of Belfast etc.  I think that The Low Bog was just before Dundonald Cemetery.  On the Covenant, his address is Up. Newtownards Road.  RosemaryJoan

[aghadowey]

Thanks, Rosemary. I missed the 'Up.' part of the address on Covenant page.