Posnett Street

Posnett Street

Posnett Street “Application of Messrs Ewing and Coulter [writing hard to decipher] to call a new street on the plains ‘Posnett Street’ approved”. 31st January 1866. Posnett Place is featured in the 1854-1855 Belfast Street Directory consisting of three houses. It is the editor’s theory that Posnett Street takes its name from Hutcheson Posnett, a land agent who is recorded in the Belfast Street Directory (1843) as owing land and living in Donegall Pass. “Posnett, Hutcheson, Land Agent, Master in Chancery for the Counties of Antrim & Down & Commissioner in Queen’s Bench for the County Antrim, residence, Rose Lodge, Donegall Pass.” H. Posnett was a Belfast town councillor, his name features in accounts of meetings in the 1840s.