On 21 August 1898, Maurice Sullivan, bachelor, of 29 Plevna Street, Belfast, walked down the aisle at St Peter’s with Isabella Letson, nineteen, spinster, of 4 Conway Street. Under “Rank or Profession of Father,” Thomas Sullivan was recorded as “Painter”; John Letson as “Dead”.
The couple were living with Isabella’s mother when their first child, John (1…