Newtownstewart Cycling Club 1908

This great photograph appears in the Billy Dunbar book and a booklet produced by Ardstraw East parish in the late 1980s. It shows the Newtownstewart Cycling Club c1908 – the club was founded 3 years before.

Left to right: JJ McAnulla, C Browne, E Muldoon, H O’Connor, H McBride, P Woods, J Lynch.
JJ McAnulla became Headmaster of the National School, Main Street in 1911 and remained in that post until 1941 when he retired. Hugh McBride was secretary of the Cycling Club, a local publican – father of Brian & John McBride.

Of most interest to me is Hugh O’Connor (b1866). Hugh was my g-g-uncle – circumstances dictated that I don’t have many photographs of the Newtownstewart O’Connors so this one is precious.

In the 1911 census Hugh was living with his mother Anne, brother Michael and niece Alice Donnelly in Dublin Street. He lists his occupation as Insurance Agent; he was unmarried