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Oops.Sivel I meant to say

Sipfel an isation of the black forest name Zipfel. It does look like the name died out in ireland. The census of 1901 shows German born Sophia Zipfel as a widow, in dublin with son Ferdinand clockmaker and daughter Katherine, - the son died unmarried in 1910, Catherine married a mr Murphy, and Sophi...

quick thoughts; the list of names i gave of the top of my head were intended to be examples of names which currently have (jewellers) shops in irleand Some of the shops are not still in the same family (although they have retained the original name)or have traded until recently like heine or Burkley...

hello everybody. - they came, not just the Maurers but others, as part of a chain migration from the Black forest a small and remote group of parishes in southern germany where farmers made clocks as a winter occupation when they brought their farm animals inside in the winter. Initially the clocks ...