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O'Dea Irish Bedding Factory
« on: Wednesday 03 November 10 21:26 GMT (UK) »
I've got 3 photos which were probably taken in Victorian times, and in the background is a building with this name/sign along its front.

The family were from Dublin but I can't find any trace of this factory so don't know if the photos were taken there.

Anyone know where this factory was?
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Re: O'Dea Irish Bedding Factory
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 03 November 10 21:29 GMT (UK) »
Are you sure the photographs were actually taken in Ireland? with the word Irish in the title wondering if it might actually be somewhere outside Ireland.
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Re: O'Dea Irish Bedding Factory
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 03 November 10 21:30 GMT (UK) »
I vaguely remember something about an ad for O'Dea mattresses

there was a slogan of some sort ... will try to remember it

(that's going to bug me now..)



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Re: O'Dea Irish Bedding Factory
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 03 November 10 21:37 GMT (UK) »
found a possible starting point in Thom's 1938...

 O'Dea & Co. Ltd, 41 to 46 Stafford St
  furniture & bedding manufacturers
 factory at : 17-22 Parkgate Street & 68 Jervis St

I think one brand advertised was 'Odearest' - maybe 1970s or 80s ?



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Re: O'Dea Irish Bedding Factory
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 03 November 10 21:41 GMT (UK) »
as aghadowey mentioned I'm not certain a factory in Dublin would need to include Irish in their sign.... maybe they ha a branch in England somewhere ?

1904
  O'Dea & Co., wholesale bedding & furniture manufacturers
   41 to 46 Stafford St

looks like they were at the same address for quite a while

any chance of posting scans of the photo's ?
The streets might be recognizable..


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Re: O'Dea Irish Bedding Factory
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 03 November 10 21:53 GMT (UK) »
The photos belong to a friend so I'm afraid I don't have copies here to post.

They show a man in a shiny top hat sitting in an open-top horse-drawn carraige, with a couple of small children; the carraige is pulled up by the side of the road, there are iron railings behind and behind those, the factory. The sign on it doesn't look like an advertising sign as such, more as though it's the name of the building. The street wouldn't be recognisable from the picture, I'm sure - nothing else is shown on it.

We can't be certain that the photo was taken in Ireland but there's no evidence of the family being anywhere else in the relevant time period. The man in the carraige looks wealthy; I suspect it was his own carraige, with a uniformed driver and a very well-groomed horse.

The likeliest candidates for being the man in the picture lived around the Ormond Quay area in Dublin; another poss is Alderman Meade (jp, builder, mayor in the 1890s(?)) but I don't know where he lived! - That may not be relevant but it would be nice to pin down this building, in the hope of that leading to a firmer suggestion of who the man might be!
Bradbury (Sedgeley, Bilston, Warrington)
Cooper (Sedgeley, Bilston)
Kilner/Kilmer (Leic, Notts)
Greenfield (Liverpool)
Holyland (Anywhere and everywhere, also Holiland Holliland Hollyland)
Pryce/Price (Welshpool, Liverpool)
Rawson (Leicester)
Upton (Desford, Leics)
Partrick (Vera and George, Leicester)
Marshall (Westmorland, Cheshire/Leicester)

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Re: O'Dea Irish Bedding Factory
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 03 November 10 21:59 GMT (UK) »
No sign of the O'Dea business in 1894, and there's no mattress/furniture factory at 41/46 Stafford street ... so maybe that dates the photo to sometime after that.

As far as I can tell the business was set up by a Michael O’Dea ... an obituary to his grandson Denis McCarthy was in the Times earlier this year - see : link

p.s. Stafford Street  was renamed - it's now Wolfe Tone Street


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« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 03 November 10 22:02 GMT (UK) »
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!

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Re: O'Dea Irish Bedding Factory
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 03 November 10 22:06 GMT (UK) »
....
And I think this is Michael O'Dea in 1911 "Manufacturer of Beds and Furniture"
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Rathmines___Rathgar_West/Orwell_Park/52384
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that's definitely him... he's listed in Thom's 1914 as

  Orwell Park 'Creevagh'
   Michael O'Dea ,  and 40 to 45 Stafford street

obviously did well out of the bedding business to own a posh house like that on Orwell park!


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