Hi sjgrace53,
You gave me a giggle with your (Deliberate? Dark humour?) "mistake".
[Or were you simply failing to master an "intelligent" I-Paddy like me?!]
I've dragged myself from my sick bed to reply.
["Man marries defiantly in to family ... Mother-in-law present at death." Brilliant!]
Also, "Lilliput" is the correct spelling for the street incorporating the separate residences of John & Elizabeth.
[It is, of course, named after the fictitious island country created by Jonathan Swift.
He was the (in)famous Dean of St. Patrick's (CoI) in Dublin.
Such was apparently inspired by his visit to a country house near a lough in county West Meath.
It had associations with St. Patrick' sister "Lilipat" (?).
There he observed "little" people across the other side of the lough ..." Click!
This inspired the creation of his great literary work "Gulliver's Travels" in 1726.
This was his great "piss take" (er, satire/parody) of society & politics of the time.
As such he was expressing his frustration at being "exiled" from his beloved England.
Such caused by his Tory "high heelers" stance rather than adhering to Whig "low heelers" ideals.
George I became King in 1714, after Queen Anne's death, surrounding himself with Whig advisers.]
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Looking at a map of Belfast, Lilliput Street is located just off (South) of Limestone Road.
It is not very long ... How did it manage to incorporate 48 (at least) houses?
[Did some wit name it thus, or was it "designed" for the Hoi-Poloi, with a certain "Je ne avais quoi"? Hopefully not a shared (outside) toilet!
In modern day parlance, such would be known as "social housing".]
It is close to the Eastern end of Limestone Road, before it joins York Road (?Now York Street).
Just down (Southward) York Road, past Hanna St., is St. Paul's CoI church (now St. Paul's & St. Barnabas).
[So it can only have been a few skips and a wee jump for them to get to the marriage venue!]
Opposite is the "York Road" railway station.
This was created as the terminus of the Ballymena-Belfast Railway Company's effort in 1848.
Such railway was extended through Coleraine to Derry in 1855.
Nearby (SE) to the station is the the Whitla St. Fire Station (created 1895).
A (small) tad further East are the docks, leading out to the sea via the Herdman, Victoria & Musgrave channels.
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I'd interpret John QUIREY's profession (on the transcribed marriage record) as "Seaman".
Possibly his father William might have been a "Fireman" in the modern sense ("bee, baw, bee, baw").
[Assuming such was around ad hoc before the creation of the formal fire station.]
However, I'd vote for him being a fire stoker aboard steam ships or steam trains.
Most probably the latter.
[Hmm, if he was in employment with the Railway company, and had so been for a protracted time (e.g. > 30 years) then he might have been entitled to a "long service watch" and (unusually for the time) a company pension.
Records are in PRONI.
Success depends on company & timeframe.
I helped someone with this a long while back ...]
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You will not find any civil records of births before 1864.
So must chase church records.
? Start at the obvious (St. Paul's).
However, be aware that Belfast was boom town in the late 19thC.
Folks came from all over, due to the industrial revolution.
Steam engines removed the reliance on gathering power via water wheels from streams.
So manufactures could be located close to large conurbations / (ex)ports / (im)ports (esp. coal).
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I know the HARKNESS name personally from Aberdeen.
Many folks marched (arm-in-arm-and-off-we-go) from there (after disastrous famines) to Ulster (particularly Ballymena, which had many fast flowing streams) following King James' 1605 deal with the Earl of Antrim.
Later events record folks of that name from Ayrshire occupying prominent roles in the Scottish Covenanting army of the 1640s. Such ravaged Aberdeen ( a "High Tory" Episopalian city).
Many were later (1680s) executed in Edinburgh, following The Restoration, during "The Killing Times", having been concentrated in to captivity within the graveyard of Greyfriar's Kirk, the venue within which "The National Covenant" had been signed many years earlier.
[The Covenanters are otherwise known as (even more) Reformed Presbyterians.
About as far, then, from High Episcopalianism (favoured by the Royals) as could be achieved within "Christianity".]
Other HARKNESSes, from Dumfrieshire, went in to Ulster, but eventually settled at Garryfine in county Limerick.
Still there today, apparently.
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Enough (6 hours) for the noo.
References, etc. 2moz.
[Perhaps I will tell you my 19-Corvids joke. Expect it will go viral soon!]
Take care.
Capt Jock
