"That on the application of the owners Messrs Taggart Bros. a new street on their property situate off Crumlin Road at Ligoniel be named Oakley Street". (5th February 1901)
The earliest public reference to Oakley Street appears to be in the Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 18 June 1902 giving details of school attendance prosecutions where a list of parents was named owing to their children not attending school regularly.