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« on: Thursday 27 September 12 15:31 BST (UK) »
Hello from British Columbia!
Thanks for the information about Thom's. The Lennon/Wylie directories are of course excellent but restricted and they don't have a directory for 1871 but never thought of it: PRONI should have that directory. The good thing about PRONI is that it is government-based and they don't charge unlike the Scotland's People database which does and quite substantially. I mention Scotland's People as our family has Scottish connections and am in the process of researching the Scottish ancestors.
My G-Grandfather was a bookbinder and lived/worked in the Irish Republic from 1881 until 1895 and they had an address at Kearns Place, Kilmainham and my grandfather (who was a teenager at the time) told us that he witnessed the public hanging of Joe Brady, one of the "Invincibles" outside Kilmainham Jail in 1883.
Grandfather also told us that his dad worked in Cork for a while so do you know if Thom's Directory covered Cork City or was it only Dublin-based? I ask this because one of Grandfather's brothers may have died in Cork as he is not in the family grave in Glasnevin.
Thanks for your quick response
Colum(bus1947)