Source https://www.reddit.com/r/Lost_Architecture/comments/6e34j1/the_original_waldorfastoria_built_in_1893/ Not quite the standard of hotel that you associate with people from Tower village at the turn of the 1900's but thanks to a [...]
Pic. David O'Brien My grandmother Kit Cogan was born Kathleen Ambrose on 30th May 1936 in Killeen, Vicarstown, the youngest child of Michael Ambrose, from Gurth, and Nora [...]
One of the more interesting aspects of the 1901 and 1911 census returns is the additional information that it gives us about the physical environment that our ancestors lived in [...]
Disney and Bowen, two iconic names in entertainment circles; staying in St Ann's Hill Hydro on the night of the 1901 census was Rev Brabazon Disney and his wife Sarah [...]
The twelfth of May is celebrated as International Nurses Day, the date was chosen in honor of Florence Nightingale, who was born on 12th May 1820. And to commemorate this [...]
I have complied a list of the houses listed in the Directories between 1875 and 1940 and the head of the household on those dates. It makes for some interesting [...]
If you have ever engaged in any sort of family history research you will have trawled the usual on-line haunts for birth, death and marriage records. You will have pestered [...]
From the late 1800's where this was the building and this was the grounds to this decaying ruin today, it is such a sad, pitiful sight to see this once [...]
In the 1901 census, Bridget Forde, had a job which was vastly different to the standard rural occupations. Instead of the usual domestic servant or kitchen work or farming work [...]
1901 and 1911 Brigids In honor of St Brigid's Day, 1st Feb 2020, I have listed all the Brigids recorded in both the 1901 and 1911 census in both Blarney [...]
