Is there difference between a "Boarder" & a "Lodger"?

s1nead · Post by **s1nead** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 3:14 am

My great grandmother was a 45 year old widow of means when she and my 15 year old grandfather lived in Dublin in 1901.

Her husband had died in 1894 but I do not know when she moved from Ennistymon to Dublin.

I'm wondering if there is a difference between the terms "boarder" & "lodger"?

In this Census entry, the Head of Family was a "Lodging Housekeeper".

Do you think this was a small Boarding House where meals were provided?

According to my research, 52 Upper Leeson Street in Dublin 4 seems to have been a prestigious address ~ it recently sold for 4M.....

There were just three lodgers and a lodging housekeeper living there in 1901 .....

Anyone know what sort of arrangement this could have been?

Thanks in advance!