Re: Michael G. Considine and Daniel O'Connell
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2020 11:37 am
I’m leaving John Considine, of the Tithe Applotments Mill Street, plus John Considine, of the handsome 1813 dowry, for now, and going back to Bank Place where Michael G. Considine was living in the 1880s.
And I think I’ve found a house in the 1911 census that might have been his house (back in the 1880s). It’s the house that Elizabeth Collins is living in in Bank Place, Ennis No. I Urban. She is aged 36, single, a Dressmaker and is living alone in house No. 6. It is the only 2nd class house among all the 1st class houses on that street (as The House and Buildings form shows). The other houses are occupied by professional people – solicitors, bank managers, etc..
Elizabeth was born on 05 Mar 1876, in Mill Street, to Martin Collins, a Tin Plate worker, and Mary O’Neil. The sponsors at her baptism were James Henty(?) and Susan Walsh. She was the last of several children.
In the 1901 census, Lizzie Collins is living in Chapel Lane. She is Head of Household, aged 22, Dressmaker, and she has a boarder, Mary OLoghlin, aged 22, Dressmaker. Elizabeth married a Michael Duggan in 1913:
14 Sept. 1913: Marriage of Michael Duggan, Painter, Fergus Row, son of Michael Duggan. Painter, to Eliza Collins, Dressmaker, Bank Place, daughter of Martin Collins, Labourer, in Ennis Cathedral; witnesses: James Kidney(?), Mary Lally.
I haven’t found any records of children born to Eliza and Michael.
Elizabeth died in Bank Place in 1944:
23 Mar 1944: Death (in Co. Home) of Elizabeth Duggan, Bank Place, Ennis, married, aged 68, Painter’s wife.
Michael Duggan died in Bank Place in 1968:
04 Feb. 1954: Death (in Co. Home) of Michael Duggan, Bank Place, Ennis, widower, aged 68, Painter.
Michael Duggan belonged to a family of painters. Before he married, he lived in Brewery Lane (I think "Fergus Row" is the same place). The 1911 census shows him there aged 25. His father, Michael, and his brother John are also painters. And a William Duggan living nearby is a painter too – as is William’s son, William [junior] aged 20. I think some of these Duggans moved to Steele’s Terrace, newly built just then. Of course, Michael Considine, Brewery Lane, son of Joseph Considine and nephew of Michael G. Considine, is also a painter. Brewery Lane was the Harley Street of House Painters.
The 1901 census shows a Mary Farrell as one of the household of Michael Considine (Painter). She is described as his sister, but I don’t think she is his sister. She is aged 60 (in 1911 she is 82), and I think she is the widow of Edmond Farrell, who was, yes, another painter: Drumcliff parish marriages shows this marriage:16 Jan. 1851: Edmond Farrell, Painter, to Mary Meaney, both of Ennis, in the presence of Michael Considine and Ellen Kennedy (“1851” is mistranscribed as “1857” on the Ennis genealogy site).
Edmund Farrell was sponsor at the baptism of Antony, the second son of Joseph Considine (brother of Michael G. Considine): 17 Dec 1845: Antony of Joseph Considine and Mary Maher; sponsors: Edmund Farrell, Ellon Keane.
The death of an Edward Farrell, aged 46, was registered in Ennis in 1866. This is Edmond, almost certainly. The image of the record is not available so I can’t say that the address is Brewery Lane, but suspect that it was.
Now back to Bank Place, but firstly I should say that Bank Place is a street that runs north from the square (Ennis). Brewery Lane runs north too but at an angle that brings it very close to Bank Place at the riverside. Bank Place is on a higher level than Brewery Lane - otherwise they would actually meet at that point.
Elizabeth Collins was not in Bank Place in 1901 (she was in Chapel Lane), and in fact it seems to be impossible to get the complete list of people who were living in Bank Place in 1901. The people who lived at the far side of the bridge (I mean the part nearest Bindon Street) are listed under Bindin Street (Ennis No. 1 Urban), as Paddy Waldron explained on this forum back in 2011 - see “Bank Place and Bindon St., Ennis, census returns on the radio”: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2665&p=4247&hilit=B ... d596#p4247
But the people who lived at the near side of the bridge (between the bridge and the Square) are not listed. All we have is Kennedy’s drapery shop, which was across the street and part of a different electoral division, i.e. Ennis No. 2 Urban.
I would have liked to know who was living in the house that was later occupied by Elizabeth. But I am pleased to have found a house in Bank Place that was lived in right up to 1954 (if not later) and might very well be the house that Michael G. Considine lived in until his death in 1884. It was demolished at some stage and a very new building, Eason’s book shop, is there now.
Sheila
And I think I’ve found a house in the 1911 census that might have been his house (back in the 1880s). It’s the house that Elizabeth Collins is living in in Bank Place, Ennis No. I Urban. She is aged 36, single, a Dressmaker and is living alone in house No. 6. It is the only 2nd class house among all the 1st class houses on that street (as The House and Buildings form shows). The other houses are occupied by professional people – solicitors, bank managers, etc..
Elizabeth was born on 05 Mar 1876, in Mill Street, to Martin Collins, a Tin Plate worker, and Mary O’Neil. The sponsors at her baptism were James Henty(?) and Susan Walsh. She was the last of several children.
In the 1901 census, Lizzie Collins is living in Chapel Lane. She is Head of Household, aged 22, Dressmaker, and she has a boarder, Mary OLoghlin, aged 22, Dressmaker. Elizabeth married a Michael Duggan in 1913:
14 Sept. 1913: Marriage of Michael Duggan, Painter, Fergus Row, son of Michael Duggan. Painter, to Eliza Collins, Dressmaker, Bank Place, daughter of Martin Collins, Labourer, in Ennis Cathedral; witnesses: James Kidney(?), Mary Lally.
I haven’t found any records of children born to Eliza and Michael.
Elizabeth died in Bank Place in 1944:
23 Mar 1944: Death (in Co. Home) of Elizabeth Duggan, Bank Place, Ennis, married, aged 68, Painter’s wife.
Michael Duggan died in Bank Place in 1968:
04 Feb. 1954: Death (in Co. Home) of Michael Duggan, Bank Place, Ennis, widower, aged 68, Painter.
Michael Duggan belonged to a family of painters. Before he married, he lived in Brewery Lane (I think "Fergus Row" is the same place). The 1911 census shows him there aged 25. His father, Michael, and his brother John are also painters. And a William Duggan living nearby is a painter too – as is William’s son, William [junior] aged 20. I think some of these Duggans moved to Steele’s Terrace, newly built just then. Of course, Michael Considine, Brewery Lane, son of Joseph Considine and nephew of Michael G. Considine, is also a painter. Brewery Lane was the Harley Street of House Painters.
The 1901 census shows a Mary Farrell as one of the household of Michael Considine (Painter). She is described as his sister, but I don’t think she is his sister. She is aged 60 (in 1911 she is 82), and I think she is the widow of Edmond Farrell, who was, yes, another painter: Drumcliff parish marriages shows this marriage:16 Jan. 1851: Edmond Farrell, Painter, to Mary Meaney, both of Ennis, in the presence of Michael Considine and Ellen Kennedy (“1851” is mistranscribed as “1857” on the Ennis genealogy site).
Edmund Farrell was sponsor at the baptism of Antony, the second son of Joseph Considine (brother of Michael G. Considine): 17 Dec 1845: Antony of Joseph Considine and Mary Maher; sponsors: Edmund Farrell, Ellon Keane.
The death of an Edward Farrell, aged 46, was registered in Ennis in 1866. This is Edmond, almost certainly. The image of the record is not available so I can’t say that the address is Brewery Lane, but suspect that it was.
Now back to Bank Place, but firstly I should say that Bank Place is a street that runs north from the square (Ennis). Brewery Lane runs north too but at an angle that brings it very close to Bank Place at the riverside. Bank Place is on a higher level than Brewery Lane - otherwise they would actually meet at that point.
Elizabeth Collins was not in Bank Place in 1901 (she was in Chapel Lane), and in fact it seems to be impossible to get the complete list of people who were living in Bank Place in 1901. The people who lived at the far side of the bridge (I mean the part nearest Bindon Street) are listed under Bindin Street (Ennis No. 1 Urban), as Paddy Waldron explained on this forum back in 2011 - see “Bank Place and Bindon St., Ennis, census returns on the radio”: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2665&p=4247&hilit=B ... d596#p4247
But the people who lived at the near side of the bridge (between the bridge and the Square) are not listed. All we have is Kennedy’s drapery shop, which was across the street and part of a different electoral division, i.e. Ennis No. 2 Urban.
I would have liked to know who was living in the house that was later occupied by Elizabeth. But I am pleased to have found a house in Bank Place that was lived in right up to 1954 (if not later) and might very well be the house that Michael G. Considine lived in until his death in 1884. It was demolished at some stage and a very new building, Eason’s book shop, is there now.
Sheila