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Mr and Mrs Joe Tobin(?) are looking very late 1880s to me ... [aside] Anyone for a spot of cricket? The Irish cricket team in ca. 1858 in Phoenix Park, Dublin, via State Library of New South Wales

From the 1901, with large brood and household www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Waterford/Tramo...

I like the leg thing he has going on. It might be better if I photoshopped that left gate away....easy peasy, as they say.

There are some more Tobin, Tramore photos available, both with kids: outside a house, in the studio.

They were married in 1881 (1st June) at what I assume is the Pro-Cathedral in Dublin. She was a widow at the time - Nannie Doheny (sp.?) née Kenealy.

There is a house called Kilgainy near Clonmel on the 25" map, but it does not match what we see here. It is gone today.

Some lovely hattage there for our La Belle Province!

24 February 1922 was a Friday ...

Here is the death record of Cornelius Phelan of Kilgainey: civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/death.... He died in 1949 aged 73. That gives him a birth year of about 1876, making him about 46 in 1922. Haven’t found a plausible marriage record yet for any Phelan in that part of the country.

Okay - a few more leads 04/01/1918 - Freemans Journal lists sale of land (at Kilganey & Croan) & a 'beautiful residence' to Mr Con Phelan. Munster Express 19/10/1928 - Acttion by Waterford Board of Health against Mr Phelan of Kilganey for failure to register under 'Cowsheds & Dairy Act.' Irish Press 23/06/1945 - Andrew James Phelan, 1st son of Cornelius Phelan of Kilganey House, called to the bar in Dublin. (How old would that make the first son? Is it consistent with a 1922 marriage?) 1963 Law Directory has him based in London. Irish Press 26/05/1949 reports the closure of the Factory and Showrooms of Phelan & Company, South Brown Street, for a day on account of the death of our Cornelius Phelan (death record above) who was a director of the company. The firm (per Thom's 1937) was listed as 'furniture, wire mattress, curled hair, and bedding manufacturers' and gave the proprietor as MF Phelan of Ailesbury Road.

Looks 1900ish to me.

According to thepeerage.com, Charles Victor Albert Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk was the 11th Duke of Saint Albans from 1898 to 1934 and never married, so the Duchess cannot be his wife, it must be his mother, Lady Sybil Mary Grey who was duchess from her marriage in 1867.

Edit: No, she died in 1871, aged 22! Did her husband remarry?

Yes, he married Grace Bernal-Osborne in 1874 in Tipperary.

The Bernal-Osbornes owned Newtown Anner house and demesne near Clonmel. Poole has a shot in the archive commissioned by the Duchess of St. Albans.

Congratulation for your beautiful Album.

From the Wikipedia article on her sister, Edith Blake: The Osbornes appear to have become estranged early in their marriage, with her father living in London, seeing Edith and her Grace raised by her mother alone. Mrs Osbourne was a talented artist, and encouraged both her daughters to take up artistic pursuits. Artists often stayed at Newtown Anner, including Thomas Shotter Boys and Alexandre Calame, and it is possible the sisters received tuition from them.

And: In 1874 she married widower and Royal Irish Constabulary sub-inspector Henry Arthur Blake. As her parents did not approve of the marriage and had been arranging a suitable marriage for her, the couple eloped. Following the marriage, Edith was disinherited.

So it looks as if Grace got the Demesne.

Grace was born sometime after 1846, so she was 54 in 1900. That is surely her sitting with the grey hair and big hat.