Wedding of William Lord and Margaret Meany - Waterford 1858

[shanew147]

see what you mean about possible 'Wool..' something...

the rest of it looks like '...earder' ?

while I think of it there are just two other townlands (no towns) beginning with Green in Co. Kilkenny - Greenridge and Greenhill. Neither of these are close to Waterford city though.



Shane

[ballydw]

Shane is the word Wool Carder - I believe this was an occupation in Woolen Mills.

[Deirdre784]

Shane is the word Wool Carder - I believe this was an occupation in Wollen Mills.

That looks good to me, thanks.

[shanew147]

Shane is the word Wool Carder - I believe this was an occupation in Woolen Mills.

think you've got it... he's put it as Woolcarder all one word


S.

[shanew147]

number of mills and factories along the river on the OSI map - including a 'Woolen factory' where Edward may have worked a short distance to the north of Greenville townland.

see : Woolen factory, Skeard townland

(EDIT Greenville and Skeard townlands are  adjacent...)


Shane

[Deirdre784]

Thanks both, that's a great help.

Any idea where I could find out about any school William may have been teaching in? According to an obituary I found recently '... after a brilliant career at school he took up the teaching of languages as a profession and was proficient in French, German, Greek and Latin and took a remakably keen interest in Anglo Saxon.....'

It went on to say that he gave up teaching at the age of 24 and settled in Bristol where he worked first as a foreign correspondent to a firm of jewellers and then as a cashier/accountant for a firm for 47 years until retiring at the age of 82!

As Margaret couldn't sign her name, it seems a strange match, but they were married for 64 years until Margaret died aged 83. William was nearly 90 when he died in 1926. 

[Deirdre784]

number of mills and factories along the river on the OSI map - including a 'Woolen factory' where Edward may have worked a short distance to the north of Greenville townland.

see : Woolen factory, Skeard townland

(EDIT Greenville and Skeard townlands are  adjacent...)

Shane

Thanks Shane, that's brilliant.

[shanew147]

On Griffith's valuation there's an Edmond Meany with a house and plot of land in Skeard townland - so beside the Woolen factory. Edmond is a variation of Edward... possibly Margaret's father ?

There's also a National school listed in the same townland - no other details for it. I dont see any school on the maps or on Griffith's in Greenville townland...

(the Griffith's returns for the area are dated 1850)


Shane

[shanew147]

that school is shown on the later c1890 OSI map - there's is a building at same location on the older map, but it's not labelled.

   Ballykeoghan school

The school is in the 'wrong' townland - Ballykeoghan is the other side of the road.



S.