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- Granda didn't have any sister only him and his brother so Sarah and Martha could possibly be their aunts, Granda's brother we think was called David as well, Granda's mother came from Nova Scota in Canada, Granda was adopted out of the orphanage by a Presbyterian minister from the Shankill Road the church and parochial house are still there, now this is just what is filtering through to me - Oh one more thing Granda's parents are buried in Milltown cemetery don't know dates sorry - Annemarie Adair 30 Aug 2020
1902 BIRTHS Registered in the District of Belfast Urban No 1 in the Union of Belfast in the County of Antrim
No 291
Date and Place of Birth- 1902 Twentieth March, 11 Nile St.
Name - Robert, Sex - M,
Name and Surname and Dwelling-place of Father - David Adair, 11 Nile St.
Name and Surname and Maiden Surname of Mother - Jane Adair - formerly Howard
Rank or Profession of Father - Labourer
Signature, Qualification and Residence of Informant - Jane her x mark Adair, mother, 11 Nile St
When Registered - Third April 1902, Signature of Registrar - J Lupane Asst.
1911 Census of Ireland
Balmoral Industrial School, Musgrave Park, Balmoral, Ballygammon, Ballygomartin, Belfast, Co Antrim, Ireland
William Adair, Presbyterian, Read & Write, Age 12, M, Pupil, Single, born Belfast
Robert Adair, Presbyterian, Read & Write, Age 10, M, Pupil, Single, born Belfast
Census of Ireland, 1911
Form B. 1. - House and Building Return
County - Antrim, Parliamentary Division - South Antrim, Poor Law Union - Belfast, District Electoral Division - Ballygomartin, Townland - Ballygammon, Parliamentary Borough - , City - , Urban District - , Town or Village - , Street - , Barony - Belfast, Upper, Parish -Shankill
Houses
No of house or building - 2
Whether built or building - Built
State whether Private Dwelling, Public Building, School, Manufactory, Hotel, Public-House, Lodging-House, of Shop, &c. - Balmoral Ind School
Number of Out Offices and Farm steadings as returned on Form B. 2 - 12,
Is House Inhabited - Yes
Particulars of Inhabited Houses
Walls 1, Roof - 1, Rooms - 6, Windows in Front - 20, Total = 28, Class of House - 1st
Families, &c.
No of distinct Families in each house - ,
Name of the Head of each Family residing in the House - ,
No or Rooms occupied by each family - ,
Total number of Persons in each family - ,
Date on which Form A was collected - 8th
Number of Person in each family who were sick on 2nd April 1911 - ,
Name of the Landholder (if any) on whose Holding the House is situated, whether that name appears
in column 13 or not - Balmoral Ind. School
Balmoral Industrial School, Belfast, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland
On November 30th, 1897, Belfast's Fox Lodge Industrial School, which had outgrown its existing location, transferred to new premises at West End (now Musgrave) Park, Balmoral, Belfast. The new site - a former Model Farm with 22 acres of land - was leased from Sir James Musgrave and became known as the Balmoral Industrial School. It was officially certified to accommodate 100 boys aged 6 to 14 on November 23rd, 1897.
Balmoral Industrial School, Belfast, c.1899. Ã Peter Higginbotham
The Balmoral School was managed by the same body that ran the Training Ship Grampian (formerly the Gibraltar). The ship was closed in 1899 and its role taken over by Balmoral. On March 13th, 1899, the School was re-certified to receive 350 boys. Its capacity was raised to 400 in October, 1902.
For boys leaving the School into employment in Belfast, the Balmoral Working Boys' Home, established in 1899, provided a halfway house between institutional and independent life.
On June 30th, 1920, the School was taken over by the Belfast Corporation. The following year, the school's operation was disrupted by the effects of the civil disturbances following the partition of Ireland. In 1921, the military authorities requisitioned the School for the purposes of billeting a regiment there and the school relocated to the Belfast Workhouse, where it carried on with difficulty until December 1922. Eventually, the school was allowed to return to its original premises.
The advent of the Second World War in 1939 again caused upheaval for the School. In the summer of 1940, the School was taken over for use as a military hospital. To help with the School's accommodation problems, the Royal Army Medical Corps provided four hospital tents, each holding 25 boys on the cricket pitch in Musgrave Park, with small tents for the staff. The School's Committee eventually found alternative premises at the Victoria Homes on Ballysillan Road, Belfast, which incorporated the Shamrock Lodge Industrial School.
Following the Children and Young Persons (Northern Ireland) Act of 1950, the establishment became an Approved School, one of the new institutions introduced to replace the existing system of Reformatories and Industrial Schools. The Balmoral Training School, as it had then become known, finally closed in 1965. [1, 2]
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1902 - 1968 (65 years)
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