It would seem this street takes its name from the Tate family, at least one of whom was a merchant and land owner who lived in Wellington House, now Wellington Park Hotel. There is a reference to a George Tate, merchant, in Great George’s Street in the Belfast Directory 1835-1836. George Tate had acquired farmland in the Malone area in 1850 and built Wellington House. (The Duke of Wellington died in 1852). “Malone, Belfast: The Early History of a Suburb” Trevor Carleton. The 1856 BSD lists “Tate’s Court” with ten ‘small’ houses. Tate’s Avenue is shown on the 1857 Ordinary Survey Map. The 1861 edition of the Belfast Street Directory states for a business at 86 Tomb Street: “James Tate, timber merchant; residence, Wellington Park”. George Tate died on 13 August 1874 aged 72 and was buried on 18 August 1874. Tate’s Avenue appears officially for the first time in the 1887 Belfast Street Directory. The following minute comes from the Belfast Improvement Committtee, 1889. ‘That Mr W. J. Fennell, on behalf of Capt. Gibson be informed in answer to his letter of 24th….(writing unclear) that the only official name recognised for the street in which the houses referred to are being built is “Tate’s Avenue” but the Committee will not object to his naming the houses “Daranova Terrace’. (p.598, 6th February 1889, Minutes of Town Improvement Committee, 1884 to 1889).