coombe street

[dubabroad]

Hello people,
I was born in the Coombe Hospital (orignal one) on the Coombe and lived in Coombe Street in the 1950's
I attended Meath Street school until 1961
anybody lived around there at that time

[Taidquest]

hi dubabroad,
welcome to rootschat,hope you still look in  now and
again as this was your only post .quite a number of my family
 came from around the coombe francis st ,dolphins barn st .
so I am very familiar with  the  area.
I'm not sure if you need any information regards family research
but looking forward to seeing further posts from you.
                                                                      regards.anne

[Marie M]

http://www.dublin.ie/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=30

[Taidquest]

ah Marie m,don't live too far from me then.
if dubabroad comes back to rootschat you could help
them better than me judging by your posts here and on the dublin forum.
                                                                 regards,anne

[mnbarrett]

Hi Dubabroad,

My aunt was from there too, she lived in either 34 or 38 coombe street.

any chance might have known the family, either Behan or O'brien?

M

[Taidquest]

hi michelle,do you have first names for the O'Briens
you are researching?I would be interested to know
as after about 8 or 10 years looking for mine from that
area I have come across a fair few wrong ones and kept
 note of some of them.
                                         anne

[dubabroad]

Hi Dubabroad,

My aunt was from there too, she lived in either 34 or 38 coombe street.

any chance might have known the family, either Behan or O'brien?

M
[/quoteHiya... I live at number 25 cant remember if the numbers wer odd and even up and down the street. There was tenements across the street from me. Takes awhile to jog me memory.. there was some barrets down the bottom end of the street near the coomb. in a little kinda cul de sac..

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[Taidquest]

welcome back dubabroad,would this map
help to jog the memory?
                                       anne
http://www.rootschat.com/links/02ub/

[mnbarrett]

Hi

Seems my people lived there a bit earlier than you, dubabroad. My grandfathers first wife Mary O'brien lived in 39 Coombe Street in the late 1920's. They then moved to Prices Row, which i think is quite close to there.
They lived there until about 1940 when Mary died. His name was Joseph Behan, and he worked in C&C.

Also there in 1937 was John Drumm and Mary Drum. Do any of these names ring a bell?

Also do you remember a butchers called Hodgens on Georges Street.

Thanks for any help