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Advert in the Dublin Daily Express 6 August 1896

BRAY - Springmount Boarding House will re-open August 1. For particulars apply to Mrs Parrack, Springmount Boarding House, Meath Road, Bray.

John Spooner thank you.

A 3rd prize winner (one of many) in the Sunlight Soap Competition of February 1897 was Edwin Parrack of Springmount Hotel, Bray, with 1414 coupons. He and his fellow 3rd prize winners won a Rolled Gold Watch. (Flag of Ireland 27 March 1897)


[The winner won £21 cash with 18,020 coupons, and each of the 10 2nd prize winners (5,484 to 14,183 coupons) won a bicycle.]

I imagine that to get that many coupons, Sunlight Soap must have been provided in all bathrooms at the Springmount Boarding House.

Looks like it is two houses (again?) in November 2021 streetview - maps.app.goo.gl

Mr O'Connor spoils us with a wider view - catalogue.nli.ie
... with gossiping grannies first floor left !

Almost everything here - themedievalbrayproject.wicklowheritage.org

" ... The two houses of Springmount Terrace appear combined as Springmount Boarding House in two photographs taken by Fergus O’Connor (National Library Collection) around 1900. The boarding house was not listed as such and appears to have been unoccupied on the night of the census of March 1901.

Built on a site leased to Catherine Fanning by Peter Warburton Jackson in 1877, the terrace is a typical example of speculative development in the area, consisting of two larger houses facing the road, along with two smaller cottages or mews houses (Springmount Cottages) built on the laneway at the rear of the site. Constructed with red brick at the front and the ground floor finished in a plain lined render, the Springmount Terrace houses are gable-fronted, two-bay, three-storey buildings with two-paned flat-headed bay windows beneath the two-over-two paned windows on the top floor, and a semi-circular opening with a raised plaster moulding around the front door. Built to a high standard, with good internal fittings, fireplaces, plasterwork etc., they feature decorative bargeboards on the front of the house which distinguishes them from similar properties in the area. At the rear there were two small single-storey extensions, which would typically have contained a scullery or pantry, outhouses, and a w.c.
In 1880 a Miss Margaret Courtney was listed as residing at Springmount and she probably established the boarding house there. In 1881 she purchased the properties , then known as Springmount Villas, in a transaction involving John Fanning, James Lennon and Charles Banks. The Courtneys were farmers around Bray and south Co. Dublin, and she may have been related to them . Esther Courtney Archer “otherwise Essy Archer formerly of Mountpleasant Dublin but late of Springmount Meath road ” (Calendar of Wills) who died in 1893, was likely related to her, perhaps a widowed sister or- less likely- her mother by a previous marriage. Not listed there in the 1901 Census, Miss Courtney turns up in 1911, in a house just up the road at 1 Meath Terrace, as Margaret Courtney, aged 62, single, born in Dublin, Church of Ireland. It appears she kept up in her boarding house business while at that house and was identified as ‘head of the household’, the other occupants being a female ‘manager’, two house servants and one visitor. In 1917 she sold the premises to Henry P. Smyth of 3 Cross Avenue, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
The two houses on the terrace, later renamed, were refurbished in recent years and are private residences. ... "

The Parrocks were in Meath Road Bray in 1901, but in Waterford in 1911.

According to an advert in the Witness (Belfast) on Friday 7 October 1892, the proprietress of the Springmount Private Hotel is a Mrs Mills.

In an earlier advert in the Irish Christian Advocate on May 9 1890 it's the "Private Temperance Hotel and Boarding House, Springmount, Meath Road" and it is "conducted by Mrs. Mills, formerly of London".

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12 October 1927 was a Wednesday ...

beachcomber australia it was!

DANCE AT OLD ROSS.
The dance, organised by Miss Thompson, Carnagh House, and held at Old Ross, under the auspices of the United Irishwomen's Association was very largely attended and a very successful and enjoyable function. Mr. Dwyer, junior, Heath Park House, proved a very efficient M.C., and the music was excellently rendered by Messrs Hugh O'Connor and James Howlett, New Ross. The ladies' committee in charge of the catering acquitted themselves most creditably in the discharge of their duties.


New Ross Standard
2 Dec 1932

NEW ROSS NURSING ASSOCIATION.
At the meeting of the New Ross District Nursing Association on Monday evening, [...] the death of a member, [...] Dr. G. A. Hickey. [...]

Miss Thompson, Carnagh, in seconding the resolution, said that during the time she was connected with the Nursing Association she saw many instances of Dr. Hickey's charitable disposition.

New Ross Standard
14 Feb 1932

One of the Powney-Thompsons, maybe?

"LATE GENERAL CLIFFORD - STRIKING CAVAN TRIBUTE.
There was a large attendance, representative of all creeds and classes at the funeral on Tuesday of Lieut-General Robt.Cecil Richard Clifford, C.B., D.L., Carn Cottage, Belturbet, Co. Cavan.
[...]
The chief mourners were :- Mr. Clifford (son), Mrs. Powney Thompson, Carnagh, New Ross; and Mrs. Lowis, Drumard, Kesh, Co. Fermanagh (daughters); Mrs. Bamford, Carn Cottage, and Miss Clifford (nieces) ; and Colonel Lowis (son-in-law).


Belfast Telegraph
10 Dec 1930

Carnagh House is in the townland of Carnagh. The 1926 census shows 2 farms in Carnagh, one 120 acres, and one 250. I think the big one is Carnagh House, worked by the Fowlers, but owned by a G.H. Lambert.

Looks like Jane Lambert and her servants in the big house.

The catalogue also has, undigitized: Copy commissioned by Mrs. Thompson, Carnagh, New Ross
by: A. H. Poole Studio Photographer.
Published / Created: (1938)

Belfast Telegraph
10 Dec 1930

LT .- COMMANDER C. J. SKRINE R.N (RETIRED), AND MISS POWNEY THOMPSON.
The engagement is announced, and the marriage will take place early in April, between Charles John, eldest son of the late Walter Clarmont Skrine and of Mrs. Skrine, of Ballyrankin, Ferns, Co. Wexford, and Theo, vounger danghter of the late Lt .- Col. C:B.E., and of Mrs. Powney Thompson,|Mf. B.E., of Carnagh, New
Ross, Co. Wexford.

Might we be looking at Mary Theodora "Theo" Powney-Thompson, daughter of Lt. Col. Cyril, Carnagh New Ross - prior to he marriage in 1939

www.irishgenealogy.ie

In which case, our "miss Thompson" would later become the daughter-in-law of poet Moira O'Neill . . .

Son of Moira O'Neill
COMMANDER CHARLES J. SKRINE, of Ballyrankin Ferns. Co. Wexford, who has
died, was the son of the well-known Northern poet, Moira O'Neill, who wrote "Songs of the Glens of Antrim". Commander Skrine. who was 64, was educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne and Dartmouth and served as a midshipman in the latter part of World War I. After his father's death in 1930 he concentrated on farming and horse breeding. He rejoined the Navy in 1939 and led a number of convoys to the Dunkirk beaches. He was a member of Ferns Diocesan Council and of the General Synod of the Church of Ireland. He is survived by his wife and two children.

Belfast Telegraph 19 Nov 1966

Pittsburgh had a Sesquicentennial Exhibition in 1908. There was an Art Exhibit Committee, chaired by John W. Beatty.
See a portrait of him on image 92 of 113 in
Pittsburgh sesqui-centennial celebration, July 4, September 27-October 3, November 25, 1908: Official account
- historicpittsburgh.org
It is a possible match to the gentleman standing in this group portrait.

According to FEATURED ARTIST -- JOHN WESLEY BEATTY (AMERICAN 1851 - 1924), by Joan Hawk
- www.bedfordfineartgallery.com
"It was Beatty’s organizational skills, coupled with considerable skills as an artist, that brought him to the attention of Andrew Carnegie as just the person to organize the art exhibition for the 1890 opening of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. In 1896 he was appointed by Andrew Carnegie as the first director of the Department of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, a position he held until 1922."
and
"He was one of the original members and for a time the Chairman of the Art Commission of Pittsburgh."
and
"John Wesley Beatty, once described as the “solidly built, an avid golfer and fisherman, affable and comfortable in clubs and completely at ease with the financial barons of Pittsburgh,” ..."

The members of the Art Exhibit Committee for the Sesqui-Centennial are listed in:

To Show Paintings at Sesqui-Centennial of Former Pittsburghers and Old-Time Scenes of the City
The Pittsburgh Post, Jul 10 1908, P. 2, Col. 1
www.newspapers.com
"An interesting feature of Pittsburgh's sesqul-centennial celebration will be the exhibition of paintings in the Carnegle Art galleries of former Pittsburghers and of old Pittsburgh scenes. There will be portralts of Pitt, Forbes, Braddock, Washington and other men prominently connected with the history of Pittsburgh of the "long ago." There will, of course, be no portraits of living men or women in the collection. To secure paintings and sketches of old Pittsburgh scenes the committee is sending out circular letters to persons known to be possessed of such paintings, requesting their use for the exhibit. They will also be glad to hear from persons who have pictures of this kind.
During the absence of Chairman John W. Beatty on his vacation, the work of the committee will be in charge of Rev. A. A. Lambing, vice chairman, Rebecca street, Wilkinsburg, and John E. Frazer, 422 Wood street, Pittsburgh. Father Lambing is the president of the Western Pennsylvania Historical society. The other members of the committee are Joseph R. Woodwell, Martin B. Leisser, Edwin Z. Smith, Adolph M. Forster, John E. Frazer, R. W. Guthrie, W. L. Jones and A. York Smith."

Is that the Queen? Why is it not labeled?

Possibly the wife of Horace Lee Washington, a diplomat.
See
Register [containing a list of persons employed in the department and in the diplomatic, consular and territorial service of the United States, with maps showing where the ministers and consuls are resident abroad : also a list of the diplomatic officers and consuls of foreign countries resident within the United States]. Published 1910. Page 106

archive.org

"Washington, Horace Lee -— Born in Washington, D. C, June 4, 1864; educated at the Boston Latin School, Friends' College (Providence), and the University of Virginia; engaged in the practice of law; appointed confidential clerk to the Third Assistant Secretary of State June 4, 1892; Vice and Deputy Consul-General at Cairo October 1, 1894; Consul at Alexandretta October 30, 1896; Consul at Valencia June 13, 1899; Consul at Geneva October 31, 1900, to take effect January 1, 1901; Consul-General at Cape Town March 18, 1905; Consul-General at Large May 18, 1906, to take effect July 1, 1906; Consul-General at Marseilles June 10, 1908; Consul at Liverpool May 31, 1909."

www.findagrave.com
Horace Lee Washington
BIRTH: 4 Jun 1864, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
DEATH: 27 Aug 1938 (aged 74)
BURIAL: First Parish Cemetery 215, York, York County, Maine, USA

His spouse was
www.findagrave.com
Helen Stewart Williams Washington
BIRTH: 28 Jul 1874, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
DEATH: 21 Feb 1940 (aged 65), Washington, District of Columbia, USA
BURIAL: First Parish Cemetery 215, York, York County, Maine, USA

They were married in 1897.

Helen Stewart Williams was presented to Queen Victoria in 1893.

See The Press (York ed.), Mar 1 1893, P. 3, Col. 4
www.newspapers.com
"THE QUEEN'S DRAWING-ROOM.
One of the features of yesterday's Drawing Room was the American presentations made by Mrs. Lincoln in the diplomatic circle, viz. :—Mrs. W. W. Astor, wife of the well-known millionaire, and in the general circle, Miss Burrows, daughter of Mr, O'Hoffman Burrows, of Newport, Rhode Island, and Miss Helen Williams, daughter of Mrs. Sydney Williams, of Chicago.
Lady Alfred Spencer Churchill presented Mrs. Somerset Gough Calthorpe, another daughter of Mrs. Burrows, on the occasion of her marriage.
At the Drawing Room her Majesty wore a dress and train of rich black silk trimmed with crape and chenille. Head-dress: Coronet of diamonds and pearls. Ornaments: Pearls. Her Majesty also wore the star and Ribbon of the Garter; the Orders of Victoria and Albert; the Crown of India; the Prussian Order; the Spanish and Portuguese Order: the Russian Order of St. Catherine: and the Hessian and Bulgarian Orders.
Her Royal Highness Princes Christian of Schleswig-Holstein wore a body and train of ruby-coloured velvet, bordered with silver fox fur, over white satin embroidered petticoat; ornaments, diamond; and necklace of pearls and diamonds. Orders: Victoria and Albert; Crown of India:Red Cross; St. John of Jerusalem; and St. Catherine of Russia.
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice (Princess Henry of Battenberg) wore a bodice and train of gold Indian brocade, with skirt of heliotrope silk, trimmed gold. Head-dress: White veil, feathers. and diamond tiara. Ornaments: Diamonds. Orders: Victoria and Albert, crown; and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
Mrs. Lincoln, wife of the American Minister, wore a black velvet costume, trimmed with jet and black lace, and diamonds as ornaments. Mrs. Astor wore a gown of white satin with white velvet manteau de cour trimmed with silver, and a magnificent tiara of diamonds. Mrs. Post, wife of the United States Military Attaché, wore a white satin empire gown. Miss Burrows wore a gown of plain cream satin, and Miss Helen Stewart Williams wore an empire gown of white chiffon embroidered in silver, with satin brocaded train."


The white costume she is wearing in this picture appears to have a train.

She probably did not wear a dress like this for her wedding, which was a private affair, to judge from:

Chicago Girl the Bride of Horace Lee Washington
The Washington Post, Sep 25 1897, P. 7, Col. 2
www.newspapers.com
"An announcement that will prove of genuine interest in social circles of Washington is that of the marriage abroad of Miss Helen Stewart Williams, of Chicago, to Mr. Horace Lee Washington, of this city. The ceremony, which is of recent date, probably occurred at Alexandria or Cairo, Egypt, where Mr. Washington has been connected with the United States consular service for two years past. The wedding was announced by cable yesterday. The bride belongs to one of the oldest and wealthiest families of Chicago. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Williams and a granddaughter of Gen. H. I .Stewart. She is also related to the Pullman and Patterson families, of Chicago, It was while traveling abroad that she met Mr. Washington. He, as stated above, is in the consular service, having been transferred from a position in the State Department. He is a collateral descendant of George Washington, and has been prominent socially in Washington, especially in the diplomatic circle. He is a member of the Metropolitan Club, young man of fine personal appearance, and of a literary bent, having written magazine and newspaper articles, which have attracted wide attention."

More about Ernestine from the Wikipedia page (as of Sept 2026)

"First marriage
"In 1882 she married Johann Georg Ernst Albert Heink (1854–1933), secretary of the Semperoper, the Saxon State Opera Dresden; this violated the terms of their contracts, and both had their employment abruptly terminated. Heink took a job at the local customs house and was soon transferred to Hamburg. Ernestine remained in Dresden to pursue her career, and eventually rejoined her husband when she secured a position at the Hamburg Opera. She went on to have four children with Heink: August, Charlotte, Henry and Hans.

Second marriage
After the divorce from her first husband, she married Paul Schumann, an actor and director of the Thalia Theater in Hamburg in 1892. She acquired a stepson, Walter, and had three more children with Paul: Ferdinand Schumann, Marie Theresa Schumann, and George Washington Schumann. This last boy was born in New York City, named by his good-humored mother with suggestion of the doctor who delivered the baby. One of their children, Ferdinand (1893–1958) was a prolific, though mostly unbilled, Hollywood character actor.

Paul Schumann died in Germany on 28 November 1904. While fighting a legal battle in Germany over her husband's estate, she filed her United States naturalization papers on 10 February 1905, and became a U.S. citizen on 3 March 1908."

Son Ferdinand


Son Heinrich/Henry


Son Hans


Daughter Marie


Stepson Walter


Brother George

From finding aid for Jessie Vanderbilt Simons papers at Duke University
- archives.lib.duke.edu

"Jessie Vanderbilt McNamee was born on September 11, 1874, to a wealthy family residing in Staten Island (Richmond County), New York. Her parents were James McNamee and Clara H. (Vanderbilt) McNamee, the niece of business magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt. In 1901 Jessie married Charles Dewar Simons Jr. (1874-1922), with whom she had one child, Charles Dewar Simons III (1903-1988). Jessie Simons served as a volunteer ambulance driver with the Dongan Hills Motor Corps; helped found and served as the ranking member of the Richmond County chapter of the Red Cross Motor Corps during World War I; served as Vice President of the National Federated Workers for Disabled Soldiers; and was an active member of the Veteran Association of Women War Workers. She frequently traveled to Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. Simons was a friend and neighbor of photographer Alice Austen, who also served in the Richmond County Motor Corps. Simons died on August 3, 1936, in London, England."

This photo is in the collection
- archives.lib.duke.edu

See his mother, the opera singer, Ernestine Schumann-Heink at


His mother's Wikipedia page gives him the name and dates of Ferdinand (1893–1958).

The caption "11 Jahre" suggests that the photo was taken when he was 11 years old, i.e. ~1904.

His own Wikipedia page is
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Schumann-Heink
"Ferdinand Schumann-Heink (né Schumann; born 9 August 1893 – 15 September 1958)[citation needed] was a German-born American character actor with over 65 films to his credit.

Though most of his films were uncredited roles, he wrote the screenplay for the 1930 film Mamba.

During the First World War Ferdinand enlisted in the U.S. Army Field Artillery, serving at Camp Funston, Arizona, until he was medically discharged with weakened lungs from pneumonia. Ferdinand's brother George Washington Schumann-Heink died of illness whilst in the US Army. His brother August had returned to Germany, where he was killed in action with the Imperial German Navy when his U-boat hit a mine in the Mediterranean Sea."

The photographs of Ernestine Schumann-Heink's children in this batch uploaded to Flickr by the Library of Congress are from the studio of Georg Christian Hahn.
See commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Georg_Christian_Hahn_(Photographer)

for more photographs from the studio, with metadata in several languages.

Also
- commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hofphotograph_Hahn_Na...

Hofphotograph. translates to an abbreviation for "Court photographer."
Nachfolg. is an abbreviation for Nachfolger, which translates to "follower" or "successor" in singular or plural. It is (or was) often used in German company names.

Carolyn Cooke McCulloch
Shes still up at Kirk Kove. We just left there. My daughter takes a pic with her every year ❤️

See his mother, the opera singer, Ernestine Schumann-Heink at


Hans was the fourth child of Ernestine Schumann-Heink and her first husband, Ernst Heink. Ernestine's Wikipedia page gives him names and dates of Hans Hugo Herman (1887–1916)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Blanco_(writer)
"Eduardo Blanco (1838–1912) was a Venezuelan writer and politician, as well as an aide-de-camp to General José Antonio Páez, independence hero and first president of Venezuela after the breakup of Gran Colombia in 1830."

bibliofep.fundacionempresaspolar.org
" Tello Mendoza, Ramón
Güigüe (Edo. Carabobo) 8.11.1849 —
Macuto (Distrito Federal) 26.10.1923"
"En 1908, al encargarse aquel de la presidencia, fue al exilio y se residenció en París donde permaneció hasta 1922 cuando regresó a Venezuela para morir al año siguiente."

See her mother, the opera singer, Ernestine Schumann-Heink at


Ernestine Schumann-Heink had two daughters, one born in 1884 and one born in 1896. Comparing this photo with

this is most likely the second daughter, Marie Theresa.

See
-- www.findagrave.com
Marie Therese “Mizzi” Schumann Guy Hilgartner Fox
BIRTH: 17 Jan 1896, Hamburg, Germany
DEATH: 10 Nov 1975 (aged 79), La Mesa, San Diego County, California, USA
BURIAL: Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego, San Diego County, California

Typo in title transcription. Should be
Worthington Whitehouse

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worthington_Whitehouse
"Worthington Whitehouse (October 1864 – February 14, 1922) was an American real estate broker and member of New York Society during the Gilded Age who was known for leading cotillions."

It's still there but in a ruinous state

colin.boyle4 That is a shame.

See

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Dippel
"Andreas Dippel (30 November 1866 – 12 May 1932) was a German-born operatic tenor and impresario who from 1908 to 1910 was the joint manager (with Giulio Gatti-Casazza) of the New York Metropolitan Opera."

See

In the foreground at left is the Customer Service building. This was one of the later additions to the Rohr campus.

The parade ground now is part of St,Conleth`s GAA grounds.... Cill Dara abu.

A quick search with Google Lens says it is the ...

‘Simms House’ No.5 The Boulevarde, Cammeray
In 1938 the architect Ernest Maxwell Osborn designed one of the best examples of an Inter-war Functionalist house in the North Sydney area. ...
via www.athomeinnorthsydney.com.au

Still there - GoogleMapsStreetview - maps.app.goo.gl

Faecesbook - www.facebook.com

beachcomber australia that's great thanks for this. Will update the caption.

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