broderieanglaise

ancestry dot com suggests Ethel lived until 1978! Not sure where they sourced that.

P appears to be for Pansy.

Could be something in the Births, marriages and Deaths column of the Irish Times, November 23rd 1978 (page 24 or 30).

L is for Lily

Niall McAuley are you sure? L is for some 4 letter word but neither the word nor the plant looks much like a lily. Edit: Though according to wikipedia, the only other 4-letter garden plants beginning with L are Leea and Luma, neither of which look remotely like that (being bushes), so I guess it must be Lily.

I love this picture.

The children all look happy. What a great family portrait.

What happy faces!

The only Morrisseys in John's hill in 1911 are in the return of idiots and lunatics in institutions. There's a Thomas Morrissey in Convent Hill - an unemployed tailor aged 22.

derangedlemur I wonder if he might have worked at the Asylum?

The girl on the right - it's about time she got her (or rather A.H. Poole's) racket restrung. Some of those strings are very loose.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons The 1911 Census shows James aged 35, Katie, 34 (Born in Kildare 1877ish) Mai 4, Joseph 3 and Kathleen 1 as the family in the house. In addition Mary Osrant 20 and Bridie Osrant 13 are listed as household servants. Morley Terrace was in the Gracedieu area of Waterford whose residents had notions about themselves. (Or so I told my in laws for many years!)

Sweet family posing :)

National Library of Ireland on The Commons I just realised that I did not comment on the shot itself. It really is a lovely portrait and such pretty ladies - mother and daughters. The chances are that Kathleen with the racquet was wearing Mai's hand-me-downs which might explain the ragged hem to the dress. Both the younger girls socks are hanging loose which in those days probably meant no garters as elasticated tops were not the norm. I wore elastic garters for my school socks way back when and they were great for firing papaer bullets at the teachers and other pupils. (and yes both boys and girls wore garters in those days!)

John Spooner There's definitely a thesis to be done on Poole Photographic Studio props from the 1880s to the 1940s... Suspect that the strings were loose from off scene bashing of the heads of hundreds of sisters and brothers over the years, before the perfect poses were adopted!

Judging by the "Fashion and Varieties" column in Freeman's, no social occasion was complete in the late 1890s (Feb 1898 onwards) without the presence of the Honourable Edith Dillon. The Honourable Ethel's first appearance in the column is May 1899

John Spooner So Edith was "out" from the age of about 20, and then Ethel from about 19?

In Januaary 1905 Edith married Sir William Mahon at Abaseragh Ahascragh Church.

The bride wore a white satin gown with a deep flounce of Brussels lace cught up with a bow of silver tissue, the bodice being trimmed with lace and silver gauze to correspond. Her veil was of lace, and her ornaments diamonds

The Times (London, England), Friday, Jan 27, 1905, court circular You can't beat a good flounce

John Spooner You certainly can't! Think that should be Ahascragh Church, John. The Clonbrock Estate was at Ahascragh in Co. Galway.

Untimely death KLAXXXON London Times Deaths column, 3rd Sep 1910

MAHON - On the 31st Aug., at Criccieth, WILLIAM GERALD ROSS, only son of SIR WILLIAM and HON. LADY MAHON, within two days of his first birthday