"As a surname, Halcombe does not appear in "Surnames of the United Kingdom," nor in "The History of Surnames." It occurs as the place name of a seat in Wiltshire, near Malmesbury, and my old friend, the late John Shaw, Belfast journalist, used it as a surname in his novel "The Golden Halcombes" in 1888. So readers can take their choice of how this uncommon name came to be applied to a street" (John J Marshall, Belfast Telegraph, 22/01/1941).
“That on the application of the owners, Mr. J. E. McConnell, a new street on his property situate off Woodstock Road between Spring Street and Radnor Street be named ‘Halcombe Street..." (12th December 1894).