2500 copies of Saintfield Community Association’s Saintfield News Issue 28 have been printed, and members have delivered them to homes throughout Saintfield. If you haven’t received a copy it can be downloaded by clicking on the image below.

Hi there,

My wife’s grandmother was Margaret Drake, born in Saintfield in 1891.
Has anyone done a family tree of the Drakes?
Are there still Drakes in the village?

Thanks,
David Browne

Saintfield Heritage Society has announced
its varied programme of talks for 2023/24.

The programme can be viewed here.

The talks will take place in Saintfield Community Centre
at 8 pm on the second Thursday of the month.

2500 copies of Saintfield Community Association’s Saintfield News Issue 27 have been printed, and members have delivered them to homes throughout Saintfield. If you haven’t received a copy it can be downloaded by clicking on the image below.

Hi there,

I have been researching my tree for some years and I have turned my attention to my Snowdon/Shaw family from the Carricknacessna and Oughley area. My GGGG grand parents William John Snowden (father John) and Mary Shaw ( father James) were both school teachers who I suspect taught at Lessans school outside Saintfield. They moved eventually to Londonderry where William John Snowden became Headmaster of Gwyn’s academic Institution. One of his sons, James Snowdon, went on to become A Presbyterian Minister at Blackrock in Dublin. His other children all became teachers or married teachers in Londonderry.

I was wondering if you had any records relating to Lessans school and anything on the Shaw and Snowdon families?

Best regards
Paul Donnelly

Hi there,

My mum talked about being evacuated to Saintfield during the war and she said she used to live there at some point during 1940s/1950s.  Her name was Montgomery.  She also mentioned going to the school in Saintfield.  Could anyone point me in the right direction for researching this info?

Many thanks,
S. Hull

Saintfield Community Association’s Saintfield News Issue 26 has been distributed by members to homes in Saintfield, but in case you didn’t receive a copy it can be downloaded here by clicking on the image below.

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Over the coming weeks you may notice some work being carried out to the buildings in the Saintfield Community Park site.  The former windmill, flour mill, and miller’s cottage are of great historical importance, and are in fact on a Scheduled Monument site.  This means that the utmost care must be taken to protect and stabilise the buildings and any work undertaken to do so must be approved by the Historic Environment Division. We have obtained Scheduled Monument Consent from HED to remove trees and their roots that are threatening the stability of the buildings. Without this intervention the buildings might eventually collapse.