Bygone Dublin street

[shanew147]

I'd say bootmaker..

I've included an extract from the marriage cert of my gg-grandparents with the same occupation..


Shane

[kooky]

Bootmaker.

I had relatives in Cork Street. When I went to Dublin a few years ago the house had disappeared.

Kooky

[Graham Whitehead]

Many thanks Deccam. IOnteresting to know how late the Brooks survived.

[gormangenealogy]

Hello Luas,

I would say your grandfather's occupation was a Baker.

Here's anoother photo of Chambre Street (southside) leading into the north end of Weavers Square.

[gormangenealogy]

Another from what year i can't be sure

[luas]

Good photos.  That second one might not be that old.  Note the electric cable coming down the front of the building.  Could be as recent as 1950s/early 1960s?  I know my grandfather was a baker - it's the rank or profession of his father I wasn't sure about.  It does look like bootmaker, but some of the letters are a bit ambiguous.  I also think it's odd that nobody ever mentioned that we had a bootmaker in the family.

[Mo C]

Thank you to all who have put up photo's of Chamber Street.  My  gt.grandparents had a dairy business at No.26, Thomas and Mary Phillips.  Does anyone remember them ?  My mother was born in No.27 in 1905.

Cheers, Maureen

[shanew147]

in the Thom's Directory for 1894 listing for Chamber st there is

  no. 26 Thomas Phillips, dairy
 
  no. 27 is tenements (no occupants listed)

in 1914  no. 26 is

   J. O'Toole, dairy



Shane

[Mo C]

Hi Shane,  Thanks for the quick reply.  I have a printout of the 1901 census for them.  I think my grandfather died in 1903 and I wonder if the O'Toole that took over the business was a relation of my grandmother because she was Mary Toole before her marriage.  In 1911 she is listed as a widow living in No.27 with her son, Michael.  In one valuation list I read, Mary Phillips is listed as the owner of No.27, but that could have been the mother of Thomas.  Still it all helps to fill in the answers.
Cheers, Maureen.