Albert Street features in the Henderson's New Belfast And Northern Repository For 1843-1844 with this listing: 'Mulholland, S. K., Hind, and Co Flax Spinners, Albert Street'. Similar to Albert Square it is likely it gets its name from Queen Victoria’s late Prince Consort, Prince Albert (26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861). Their marriage took place on 10 February 1840.
"The committee recommend the Council to name the thoroughfare from Durham Street to Falls Road via Albert Crescent, Albert Street...". (Report in the Northern Whig - Monday 03 November 1873).
The minutes of the Town Improvement Committee of 1 November 1879 record how the committee gave planning permission to Rose McCormick to build two houses and a cow house in Albert Street.