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I checked in the Thom's Directories and the Rabaiotti Bros. don't appear until 1910 at no. 49 Amiens Street (for a couple of years before that, an Angelo Santi worked out of that address). The Rabaiotti's are listed as Merchants in 1910 and 1911. By 1914, they've expanded into no. 50 next door and are listed as Confectioners also.

www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000193785/ rabaiotti family in 1911 but very much Fish Merchants.

There were Rabaiottis in Swansea when I lived there in the 1980s. I think they ran a café.
Flickr confirms they are still there.


Most of the well-known Italian cafe dynasties in South Wales came from the Bardi region in the 1920s/1930s.

I wonder if the Irish Rabiottis are from the same part of Italy?

Streetview, OS 25" map link at GeoHive.

Describing the Italian cafe influx into South Wales www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/proud-history-valle... This sentence struck me. "Various members of the Rabaiotti families also had cafes and ice-cream carts on the streets well before 1907." Perhaps the Irish ones came via S Wales.

COUSIN SAYS BEATTIE ADMITTED MURDER; " I Wish I Hadn't Done It," Witness Declares Defendant Told Him After His Wife Was Killed. August 29, 1911, Tuesday Page 1, 3351 words CHESTERFIELD COURT HOUSE, Va., Aug. 28. -- Showing intense emotion, Paul D. Beattie, cousin of Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., who is on trial here for the murder of his wife, declared on the witness stand late to-day that the defendant told him twenty-four hours after the murder that he was sorry "he had done it," a circumstance relating to the crime that the witness hitherto had suppressed. In another article about this case, another witness is justice of the peace Jacobs. BEATTIE WITNESS HEARD GIRL SCREAM; This Was Followed by a Gunshot, Man Living Near Place of Wife's Murder Testifies. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C04EFDB1531E233A...

Quite a long exposure by the looks of it. Another auction poster on the church gate. The church has a sort of C of I look about it, which might help narrowing the search down.

There is a Blackhall a retired Grocer in Mountbellew in 1911 www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Galway/Mount_Be...

I've done a quick streetview of all the Blackall locations form the census and there's nothing like this. It seems to be a church attached to an ecclesiastical ruin of some sort - maybe an abbey or maybe just an older church.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Is the auction poster on the arch legible if you stick the negative into a microfiche reader?

Hi, This is St. Mary's Church, Athenry, Co. Galway.