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Did we have this one up before Carol? Its a lovely wedding shot of some very handsome people and as you say unusual in that it is of members of our Jewish community.

I was going to say that there are quite a few with their heads uncovered but of course they would have yarmulkas on their heads having been at a religious service.

I suspect a close perusal of Page 7 of the Irish Times of Friday September the 6th 1901 might yield some interesting details.

The courthouse is still there (streetview). 25" OSI map from 1905 here

The 1901 census lists 3618 people as Religion: Jew*. 1.25% of them could be in this photo!

Streetview GeoHive OSI 25" map. The photographer is on Blessington Street, Berkeley Street is crossing right-left, and we can see the length of Nelson Street.

Trams passing here would have been 9 and 10 to Phoenix Park and 19 and 20 to Glasnevin. According to wikipedia, the first of those electrified was #9, 22 November 1898.

Here are messrs Henry Lenahan and Patrick O'Neill in the 1901 census

While we're in the census, here is John Joseph Clarke, today's photographer, in 1901.

Niall McAuley Niall, I'm only popping in for a moment - will be back later. Would you mind putting that census link under the photo of J.J. himself, if it is he? (I know, I know, what did my last slave die of? :)

This appears to be the former Estelle Barbour (1878-1960) who was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, and grew up in Grosse Pointe Farms, near Detroit. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Barbour, her father was a Detroit manufacturer. [1] [2] Estelle Barbour married George S. Stillman of New York City, in Detroit on April 24, 1906. George Schley Stillman (1879–1907), a son of J.F. Stillman of New York City, "was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Yale University where he was selected as a first-team All-American at the tackle position in both 1899 and 1900. Stillman coached the 1901 Yale football team to a record of 11–1–1. The team was later recognized as a national champion by Parke H. Davis." –Wikipedia Married less than a year, George Stillman died of meningitis in 1907 after contracting typhoid fever. Twenty three years later Mrs. Estelle Barbour Stillman married Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor (1865-1945) of Santa Barbara, California, on June 23, 1920. She was 45 at the time, he was 55. Long prominent in Chicago society, Hobart Chatfield-Taylor was an author of several novels. His first wife, the late Rose Farwell, was the daughter of the late United States Senator Farwell, of Illinois, and Rose and Estelle were long-time friends. A wedding-day photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor taken as they left the church appeared in The New York Tribune. –LOC Chronicling America, [3]  

Thanks Pixel Wrangler for the additional information. We will update our records with her full name.