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Dublin / Re: Thoms look-up request: 1922 and 1937
« on: Sunday 06 June 10 11:24 BST (UK) »
My great-grandfather was Philip Kearney b. 1853 in County Meath and d. 1923. So it looks like your relation is a different Philip Kearney.
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Dublin / Re: Thoms look-up request: 1922 and 1937
« on: Sunday 19 July 09 22:03 BST (UK) »
Thanks Shane! That is good to know. My g-grandmother died in 1952 aged 92, so it seems she was still running the shop in her late eighties.
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Dublin / Re: Thoms look-up request: 1922 and 1937
« on: Sunday 19 July 09 20:08 BST (UK) »
Many thanks eadaoin. The 1937 entry sounds on target. The eldest daughter of Mary Anne Kearney married a man called O'Loughlin. I must check the road out some time and see what is standing there now.
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Dublin / Thoms look-up request: 1922 and 1937
« on: Sunday 19 July 09 13:14 BST (UK) »
Shane and eadaoin kindly offered to do look-ups in Thoms. I would be very grateful for a look-up on a business run by my ggrandmother. Here are the details I know:
Name: Mary Anne Kearney (or possibly Philip Kearney);
Business: shop/newsagent;
Dates: about 1920 to 1940;
Location: Tyrconnell Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8 (or possibly neighbouring streets: Tyrconnell Street, Tyrconnell Park, Ring Terrace, O'Donoghue Street);
Other information: the same building also housed a business run by a family called Gillet.
Sorry to be vague about the street. The shop was close to the Oblate Church of Saint Mary Immaculate, which is on Tyrconnell Road.
Name: Mary Anne Kearney (or possibly Philip Kearney);
Business: shop/newsagent;
Dates: about 1920 to 1940;
Location: Tyrconnell Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8 (or possibly neighbouring streets: Tyrconnell Street, Tyrconnell Park, Ring Terrace, O'Donoghue Street);
Other information: the same building also housed a business run by a family called Gillet.
Sorry to be vague about the street. The shop was close to the Oblate Church of Saint Mary Immaculate, which is on Tyrconnell Road.
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: What was my gggrandpa's job?
« on: Wednesday 15 July 09 09:13 BST (UK) »
I first thought 'tanner' and then I saw the 1911 census and it said 'farmer'. However, he was already in St. Patrick's House at that time, so he did not fill out the form himself. So an inner city farmer he probably was. Can't imagine it was that easy, living in terraced houses with no gardens! 
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: What was my gggrandpa's job?
« on: Tuesday 14 July 09 23:20 BST (UK) »
A little background: my gggrandpa, Andrew, was born 1833 in Rathangan, County Kildare, Ireland. He was married in 1855 and had about five children. Sometime in the 1860s he and his family moved to Dublin. They lived at various addresses in the North Strand area (Dublin north inner city) - an unlikely place to find a farmer! Andrew died in St. Patrick's House an 'old people's home' on South Circular Road, Dublin in 1915.
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / What was my gggrandpa's job?
« on: Tuesday 14 July 09 20:06 BST (UK) »
Would appreciate any help to figure out what my ancestor worked at.
Also attached another handwriting sample from the same document.
Also attached another handwriting sample from the same document.
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Dublin / Re: railway employee GSWR 1883
« on: Monday 13 July 09 10:05 BST (UK) »
I had a look at the IRRS web site again and it does not seem to list a contact e-mail address. However, there is a postal address, so you can use snail mail :
IRRS Headquarters
Heuston Station
Dublin 8
Ireland.
The IRRS has no staff but its members meet every Tuesday evening. If you drop them a line, maybe some kind member might do a look-up on your relative. I called in person to the IRRS last month and they were very helpful. There are a lot of records there, including employee registers, but they have not all been indexed.
:IRRS Headquarters
Heuston Station
Dublin 8
Ireland.
The IRRS has no staff but its members meet every Tuesday evening. If you drop them a line, maybe some kind member might do a look-up on your relative. I called in person to the IRRS last month and they were very helpful. There are a lot of records there, including employee registers, but they have not all been indexed.
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Dublin / Re: railway employee GSWR 1883
« on: Sunday 12 July 09 13:47 BST (UK) »
The archives, including staff registers, of the Great Southern and Western Railway should be with the Irish Railway Record Society. <http://www.irrs.ie/>