Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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Kin Edar House, Belfast One Place Study
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Name
Kin Edar, Belfast
Geography
- Continent: Europe
- Country: Ireland
- Province: Ulster
- County: County Down
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- Elevation:
History
Kin Edar was a large house in Belfast, with over 7 acres of grounds and a number of staff. It was built around 1863 and demolished in the 1940s, having lain vacant for a few years. The site was subsequently redeveloped for housing.
Kin Edar (sometimes written Kin-Edar or Kinedar, and pronounced Kin-EE-dar) comes from a placename that occurs across northern Scotland. It was presuambly chosen as the name for the house by Henry Hawkins, the builder and original occupant, who came from the east coast of Scotland. The name was also given to several other, unconnected, houses around Ireland; locally, there was one, built slightly later, in Windsor Park, South Belfast.
Kin Edar stood on Sydenham Avenue, in what is now East Belfast. Although this is now a built up residential area, at the time Kin Edar was built it was still fairly rural and outside the boundaries of the then town of Belfast. Kin Edar lay between the two small settlements of Strandtown and Sydenham, in the townland of Strandtown, Holywood parish, Co Down.
In the Victorian period, the greater Belfast area saw rapid development due to industrialisation, and Strandtown / Sydenham was one of the areas which was transformed – in its case mostly due to its proximity to the shipyards on Belfast Lough. Much of this development involved the building of housing for the workers, but the area also attracted wealthy manufacturers and industrialists who built large houses like Kin Edar. The area around Sydenham Avenue became particularly known for these houses.
The site where Kin Edar stood now consists of Norwood Avenue, Norwood Drive, and Edgcumbe Drive. Kin Edar’s namesake, Kinedar Crescent, is a short distance away.
Kin Edar had four main owners:
- 1863 - 1885 - Henry Hawkins, a draper and textile merchant with Belfast company ‘Hawkins, Robertson and Co’
- 1885 - 1890 - George McIldowie, solicitor (and great-grandfather of the actress Angela Lansbury)
- 1890 - 1923 - Otto Jaffé (later Sir Otto Jaffé), linen merchant, philanthropist and twice Lord Mayor of Belfast
- 1923 - c.1939 - Charles Payne, Managing Director of Harland & Wolff shipyard, and the ‘man who launched the Titanic’
As well as the owners and their families, there was a household staff, coachmen/chauffeurs, gardeners and ground staff. Few records exist of the household staff, although we get two ‘snapshots’ from the 1901 and 1911 censuses. The staff who lived in the workers’ cottages in the grounds are better recorded, particularly through land records and street directories.
Residents
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Owners and their Families
The McILDOWIEs (1885 - c.1890)
- George McILDOWIE
- Charlotte (MANTELL) McILDOWIE
- George McILDOWIE junior
- James Mantell McILDOWIE
- William McILDOWIE
- Elizabeth Bruce (McILDOWIE) TULLIS
- Charlotte 'Lottie' (McILDOWIE) FINNIGAN
- Catherine 'Katie' (McILDOWIE) McCREA, formerly WATSON and FERRIS
- Henry Seeds McILDOWIE
- Louis Mantell McILDOWIE
- Robert Mantell Bruce McILDOWIE - died at Kin Edar
- John Mantell McILDOWIE
The PAYNEs (1923 - c.1939)
- Charles PAYNE
- Grace Agnes (BROWNE) PAYNE
- William Norman PAYNE
- Charles Trevor PAYNE - married at Kin Edar
- Grace Eveline (PAYNE) DAVISON - married at Kin Edar
Staff
Head Gardeners:
- William MAGEE - c.1868 - 1883
- James FAIRBAIRN - c.1884 - c.1886
- James STIRLING - c.1887 - c.1890
- William John DUFFIN - 1890s
- William Henry RICHARDSON - c.1909 - 1923
Under Gardeners:
- James STIRLING - 1880s
- William John STEPHENSON - c.1901
Coachmen and Chauffeurs:
- John DONNELLY - 1880s/90s - c.1922
- Joseph DONNELLY - c.1918 - 1923
Grooms:
- Joseph DONNELLY - c.1901
Domestic Staff:
- ? Mary (BLACK) STIRLING - c.1885
Staff Families who lived at Kin Edar
The STIRLINGs
The DUFFINs
- William John DUFFIN
- Eliza Jane (RUDDY) DUFFIN
- William John DUFFIN jr
- Henrietta Susanna (DUFFIN) BOYD
- Arthur James Donaldson DUFFIN
- George Irvine DUFFIN
- Herbert DUFFIN
The DONNELLYs
- John DONNELLY
- Sarah (MARTIN) DONNELLY - died at Kin Edar
- Mary Anne (DONNELLY) GILLEN
- Joseph DONNELLY
- Maggie DONNELLY - died at Kin Edar
- Sarah Jane DONNELLY
- John DONNELLY junior
- Thomas Elias DONNELLY
- Margaret (LAMPH) DONNELLY (wife of Joseph DONNELLY)
- John DONNELLY
- Vincent Malachy DONNELLY
The RICHARDSONs
- Mary (HOGAN) RICHARDSON - died at Kin Edar
- William Henry RICHARDSON
- Jessie Steele (COOK) RICHARDSON
- Eileen Mary (RICHARDSON) BROSGARTH
- Jessie Steele RICHARDSON
- Mildred (RICHARDSON) McNAUGHT
- Violet (RICHARDSON) JAMISON
- Laura (RICHARDSON) GORDON
- Phyllis (RICHARDSON) NICKELL - born at Kin Edar
- William Henry RICHARDSON junior - born at Kin Edar
- Malcolm Louis McNAUGHT (infant) - born and died at Kin Edar
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