Joanmount Drive

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Old Park
Year approved: 1934

"Resolved - That the names Joanmount Park and Joanmount Drive be approved for new streets off Oldpark Road on the property of Mr. W. F. Neill". (18th December 1934).

Joanmount estate was developed by Sir William Frederick Neill (1889-1960), an estate agent and an Ulster Unionist politician. He was Lord Mayor of Belfast from 1946 to 1949 and MP for North Belfast from 1945 to 1950. Neill bought the land from Cliftonville Golf Club, which was thereby reduced from 18 holes to 9 holes, and he named the estate after his daughter Joan. Some of the streets in Joanmount were named after places in Great Britain - Hoylake, Formby, Meyrick, Coombehill and Prestwick. From the blog of Nelson McCausland.

Joan Neill according to the details on the family headstone in the City Cemetery was born on 17th January 1927 and died on 23rd April 1933.   Whilst she may have officially been registered as Margaret Joan Neill there is no mention of this in the inscription of her birth and death on the headstone, she is simply described as Joan Neill.