Miscellaneous Ulster Historical Ephemera

Reference code: HOYFM.ACL2025.76
Level of description: Fonds
Title: Miscellaneous Ulster Historical Ephemera
Scope and content: This collection is contained within four photograph albums, three of which are marked Waverley Gift Stationery. The provenance cannot be determined, nor is there commonality in the contents other than several recurring names, some of whom were prominent Ulster personalities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The names and documents include:
Confirmation certificates awarded to J.B. Pedlow, Bessbrook and Belfast for having attended medical lectures at Belfast Royal Hospital and Belfast Lying-in Hospital, 1891-1892.
Belfast Academy examination certificates from the 1870s, awarded to Samuel Cunningham, who went on to become a Senator in the Parliament of Northern Ireland.
Two election leaflets for his son, S. (Samuel) Knox Cunningham, of Glencairn, Belfast, who ran as a unionist in West Belfast in 1945 and 1955, the second sent to Anne Hackett of Finaghy.
A letter from the House of Commons from [Joseph S. Higgins] sent to Samuel Cunningham.
A 1941 greeting card from Samuel Cunningham.
Funeral, interment receipts from Belfast Malone Cemetery for Margaret King of Donaghadee, dated 1908.
Various receipts issued to James Andrews of Donegal Street and John Andrews and Co., Comber, from H.M. Charley Coal Yards, James Moore Mercantile Stationer, The Northern Whig, Henry Green Bookseller, and William Coates Electrical Engineers.
An award from Miss Robinson’s Establishment for Young Ladies, Belfast, to Lizzie Harbinson. Memorial cards for Georgina and Robert Francis Harbinson, dated 1875, and Mary Harbinson, who died in Marlacoo in 1890.
A share certificate from Glentoran Recreational Co. Ltd., issued to John (Jack) Beattie, socialist, trade unionist, and Northern Ireland Labour Party politician, born 1886, in Ballymacarrett. Also, election communication for the Commonwealth Labour Party, which formed after a split in the NILP.
The military identity card and national registration document of John Clarke MacDermott (Baron MacDermott), an Ulster Unionist politician and former Attorney-General of Northern Ireland.
The signature of The Duke of Abercorn (no date)
A delegation card issued to Bowman Malcom, the Irish railway engineer and Locomotive Superintendent of the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway, for a congress in Paris in 1900.
There are several memorial cards, including for Susan Toole, the wife of John Lawrence Toole, actor, and theatrical manager; Elizabeth Graham of Killynure, and Joseph Malcolmson, President of Ballymacarrett Adult School.
There are many seemingly random items including invitations for musical recitals at St Anne's, The Ulster Hall (Minor Hall), and the Y.M.C.A., for temperance or masonic meetings, for lectures by organisations including, the Belfast Gaelic League and the Theosophical Society of Ireland, for talks in churches including on Romanism at St. George’s and by the Rev. Donald O. Soper at Donegall St. Methodist. Also, luncheon menus for the Ulster Unionist Council and the Belfast Literary Society, an invite to a dance from Bangor Corinthians, a photograph of Miss Walsh of Whitehill, Edgeworthstown, Longford, an appeal by the Orange Order War Memorial Orphan Fund, a membership card for the Caxton Guild, and a Christmas card signed by the Belfast Lord Mayor, Sammy Wilson in 2000.