Belfast's Cromac SpringsAuthor(s): Martin GraySource: North Irish Roots, Vol. 15, No. 1 (2004), p. 19Published by: North of Ireland Family History Society (NIFHS)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27697541 .

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BELFAST'S CROMAC SPRINGS

Martin Gray, Member B 0552

Recently while checking some MARTINS in Bassetts Guide and Directory of 1886 for County Antrim, I came on a mention of Cromac Springs. There was an

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MILLIN & RANKINS Sparkling Beverages are Manufactured from the Celebrated Cromac Water now so

Famous and necessary for the production of Pure Aerated Waters, One of the Original Springs being their own private property.

Millin & Rankin

Ginger Ale Manufacturers CROMAC FOUNTAINS, BELFAST

I had never heard of Cromac Springs but the name Millin rang a distant bell associated with my great grandfather James Martin born 1806. Looking again in the Belfast

Directory of 1841/42 I found:

"Martin, James, manufacturer of soda water and ginger beer brewer No. 8 Great

Edward Street". - No sign of a Millin. On checking the 1850 Directory James Martin was still at No. 8 but at No. 12 was a Joseph Millin and at No. 14a Wm. Cochrane. Great Edward Street was located on the short length of the present Victoria Street between May Street and the beginning of Cromac Street.

Is it simply a coincidence that all three names are associated with mineral waters?

The following is a basic Tree of my line of Martins. Does anyone know of siblings of either of the first two James MARTIN? Or indeed of their wives? Is there any information on Cromac Springs?

James MARTIN m > IRELAND b t 1777

James MARTIN m Agnes GRFER b 8 Sep 1806 b 2 Jun 1812

Elizabeth MARTIN William MARTIN John MARTIN James MARTIN b20Ju!1817 b S Mar 1843 b 19 May 1845 b 25 Nov 1846 m 6 Aug 1861 m M Eglinton St Pr s Ch ? i Belfast

j Robert GRAY

'

I Agnes MARTIN John MARTIN m Maggie MARTIN

' WALKER Harry MARTIN 8 issue Robert James MARTIN

Jane MARTIN b 8 Jan 1831 ml 19 Jan 1850 James BRADLEY Reg OU Belfast m2 1 Jun 1856 Henry HENDIN Eglinton St Pr s Ch ml 12 May 1856 Henry HFNDIN St Anns Belfast

I 8 issue

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