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Member Since: August 2010 Posts: 14 Send Message	Sean	Report	4 Nov 2010 20:09
Member Since: August 2010 Posts: 14 Send Message	On a 1911 Irish Census return, my gg grandad's occupation was recorded as an 'engineer in ship yard' and he was living in Belfast. Were there any other ship yards in Belfast at that time apart from Harland & Woolf? If he was working there, do any archive centres hold employees records to check? Reply
Member Since: June 2010 Posts: 121 Send Message	Penfold	Report	4 Nov 2010 21:19
Member Since: June 2010 Posts: 121 Send Message	Hi Sean, Harland & Wolf papers are held at PRONI .. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Lists of the papers they hold can be found on their website, but dont appear to be viewable online; http://www.proni.gov.uk/ Also, unfortunately the office is closed whilst being relocated til April 2011. There is some info of Harland & Wolffe papers on the National Archives website & the various offices that they are held; http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B6442
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 8,423 Send Message	ChrisofWessex	Report	4 Nov 2010 22:26
	Could be he was working on the Titanic!! Harlands was the big one may have been smaller ones at that time but not sure.