Part of Belfast is located within the bounds of the ancient parish of Knockbreda in county Down.

Majority of census destroyed, fragments survive for the county of Antrim.

Catalogue of Public Record Office holdings arranged by number only; an accession list.

An index to personal names appearing in original documents on deposit at the Public Record Office in Belfast. Documents indexed include rent rolls, wills and abstracts, petitions, Presbyterian minute books, Quaker meeting records, private papers collections, etc. Most documents are dated pre-1900.

"This is the centenary year of the Directory. As the 'Belfast and Province of Ulster Directory' it was first published in May 1852, and in an introductory note the publisher (James Alexander Henderson, proprietor of the 'Belfast News-Letter') stated that it was intended to issue it periodically, with such alterations and improvements as may be necessary, until the work shall become a standard book of reference for Belfast and the North of Ireland.". "Between...