I must be so stupid!!

[geo55]

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i feelso stupid, I have looked up all the information I can on my family but I can find nothing,on Muldoons from Belfast,or Luns,I am new to this, and to using a comp; so maybe I'm doing it all wrong.Ihave looked up census|,births,onall the sites recomended,but i just cant find them.I know my dad was born and baptised in 1917, was baptised in The holly Cross church in Belfast,but I cant find any trace of a George Muldoon! ican find no trace of his father Arthur,or his mother Elizabeth Lunn.Iknow they lived at one time on FallsRoad Belfast,before staying in Scotland.So if someone can help me i would be grateful

[Bo Peep]

No, you are not stupid. Frustrated possibly, but stupid, no. Research takes time and patience, with lots of blind alleys to travel and irritating brickwalls to bang in to.

[Sue Mackay]

Definitely not stupid, just unfortunate that your family were in Ireland, where so many records were destroyed by fire. The GRO indexes and census references you see given so often here only refer to England and Wales. I suggest you look at the sections on Irish research at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl/ or
http://www.cyndislist.com/ireland.htm for some pointers.

[NicoUK]

Lennon Wylie's website for Belfast, Dublin and Cork street directories between 1805 and 1907 and phone directories for 1913 is useful for Ireland lookups :

http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk

Probably too early at 1861 but there is an Arthur Muldoon, labourer, in Abbey Street, Belfast.

[Mary Lennon]

Hi geo55
I hope this is of help to you

1918
crumlin street
51 muldoon, mrs elizabeth

"Brookfield Street and Crumlin Street were Mill houses
if you look close a lot of the house holders were female, hence "Powder Puff Row"
they were employed in the mills so the woman was the tenant , not the man
so arthur proably lived with elizabeth"
from someone who knows Belfast well

don't see her there on years either side of 1918
Mary