Patrick Woods was a master joiner who came to Belfast from Monaghan to work on the interior of Clonard Monastery. His son Peter, followed him into the joinery trade. As a catholic, Peter found it extremely difficult to get work in Belfast in the 1930s and so he moved to Dublin where he worked in Mount Merrion. He made enough money to return to Belfast and diversify into the building trade. In 1939, he built 10 Rosetta Road for his wife Letitia Woods (nee Burns) and called it Woodburn. The name is still on the gate today and is inhabited by their grandson.
Peter went on to build Mount Merrion, affectionately named after his time in Dublin. During World War II he was an Air Raid Warden which influenced his choice of name for the “Wynchurch Streets”. In fact, he called them after Winston Churchill. He died prematurely on 11 April 1953. His wife Letitia later donated ground in Rosetta to the Church so that St Bernadette’s Church could be built. Thus both Peter and Letitia left a lasting legacy on the streets of South Belfast.
The Woods Family also built houses in Woodbreda just off the Saintfield Road in the 1970s. The Family had wanted to call the development Woodburn but were refused permission as there was already a Woodburn development in North Belfast. The area in South Belfast was therefore named Wood after the family and Breda after the townland of Newtownbreda.
(Source of information, Michaela Collins, granddaughter of Peter Woods).