KEPPLE family in Mallow in 1901 Census

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi, Everyone,
I was wondering whether there is anyone privy to the 1901 Census for Cork County who could tell me whether the KEPPLE family were living at 27, Davis Street, Mallow as they were in 1911.  It looks as though the head of the household, Elizabeth Mary, has recently been widowed aged 42, and with a total of ten children under her care, the youngest being 2 years old.  She does have 3 servants, fortunately, one of them a governess.
Would like to know what her late husband's name was and what he did for a living; and also they must have been 3 older children who had perhaps moved away from home by 1911.  On the Census return sheet their mother states that she had had 13 children, all of whom had remarkably survived, it seems.
May I say that I'm amazed and delighted to find the 1911 Irish census free on line, even these original images, quite unlike the U.K. one at the moment...
very best wishes, keith

[shanew147]

cant help you with the 1901 census data, it's due to be available on the National Archives website by early next year.

Slater's directory of 1894 shows a Kepple who could be related...

  John Kepple, solicitor, Main street

The registration district for the area is also Mallow and there are a few Kepple BMD details listed on the Irish Civil index (http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1408347;p=2;t=searchable), including the death of a Daniel Kepple in 1900


Shane

[shanew147]

found a marriage on the Civil index which would fit Elizabeth's marriage to a John Kepple - a couple of years earlier than the details entered on the census form ...

  Name: John Kepple
  Registration district: Mallow
  qtr / year: Jan - Mar 1888
  volume: 5 / Page: 362

 Name: Elizabeth Mary Tyner
 (same index details)

also a death for a John Kepple in the first qtr of 1911 :

 Name: John Kepple
 Registration district: Mallow
 Record type: Death
 quarter/year: Jan - Mar 1911
 Age: 64   (est birth year: 1847)
 Volume: 5 / Page: 324


Shane

[Keith Sherwood]

Shane,
Thanks so much for all that very useful information...
I'm not quite up to speed with Irish genealogy, though I imagine everyone's delighted with the 1911 Census coming free on line recently.
keith
Our posts crossed in the ether - wow! that looks a very feasible match-up.  Many thanks.

[shanew147]

sorry.. I posted twice with extra details and then added the possible death of John ..  didn't even give you a chance to read the first post!

in answer to your original question - I believe that Elizabeth's husbands name was John and he was a solicitor. Working back to an earlier 1881 directory shows a John Kepple solicitor in Main st, Mallow - also a Thomas Kepple farmer near to the town. John is also included in the Dublin section of the directory as follows :

 John Kepple, solicitor
 7 Stephens Green North, Dublin  & Mallow

Law Directory/Solicitors section of Thom's directory of 1894 lists him at

   3 Suffolk St, Dublin & Mallow   T. 1874 

The T. 1874 means he was admitted to to practice Trinty term in that year


Shane

[Keith Sherwood]

Shane,
That's wonderful...Everything seems to fit very well together. I just hope the fatherless family managed to survive in the aftermath of 1911.  In my KERSHAW family in London in 1870 the breadwinner of the family, John Thomas, was run over and killed by a horsedrawn London Omnibus on his way back from work, and his widow was left with 8 small children, the youngest only a few months old.  Two of the children had to be sent to live in an "Asylum for Fatherless Children" in Surrey.
But perhaps this KEPPLE family were well provided for in their father's will, or maybe Elizabeth Mary remarried.  Will have to discover what happened exactly after 1911 - John KEPPLE must have died weeks before this Census, so I imagine things were very precarious at that moment in time...
regards, keith

[Kalishoek]

Just to let you now that there is a Kepplers restaurant in Mallow county Cork
Kepplers Bar & Restaurant 26 Bank Place (main street)  Mallow, county Cork, think they might be related

[Kalishoek]

also found a Mallow death notice  from 1882
KEPPLE, Daniel; ; Blossomhill Mallow COR IRL; Cork Examiner; 1882-2-10;

and a registration of a John Kepple address West End Mallow. co Cork in Guys Almanac


Kepple, Daniel Carrig Park Mallow 1876 Guy's Dir. MFCJ#14 270
Kepple, Daniel, solicitor Main Street Mallow 1926 Postal Dir. MFCJ#13 88
Kepple, Mrs. Bank Place Mallow 1926 Postal Dir. MFCJ#13 88
Kepple, Thomas Ballyviniter Lower Mallow 1876 Guy's Dir. MFCJ#14 270

More then likely the Kepple's came from Killavullen County Cork

[Keith Sherwood]

Kalishoek,
Thanks so much for all that fascinating extra information.  Do you know whether the numbering of properties/houses in Davis Street, Mallow might have remained the same from 1911 to the present day? And that if they have, then the bar/restaurant appears to be next door to where the large KEPPLE family lived in 1911, at number 27
I've already expressed my ignorance of location and Irish genealogy in general on this and other threads, but can you tell me why Killavullen might be where this particular family came from...?
Very best wishes, keith
p.s. Probably asking for too much here, but might there be a modern-day image of Davis Street and the restaurant on the internet or somewhere else accessible...?