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Elizabeth Hughes born Dublin 1899

Born in 1899 in Dublin, lived at 16 Church Street in Arran Quay in 1901, I have correspondence that suggests she still lived there in WW1. Looking to see what happened to this lady did she marry, have children, die.She is from a large family, and I have detail on other siblings but not her. She was known as Lizzy. She was the cousin of my grandad and her name and address at church street was in his war diary. Mybranch of the family is in nz. My grandad was born in England, emigrated to nz,but his parents were from Dublin.

eevee

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Tracing forward can prove to be much more difficult than tracing back, especially after the 1911 census. If you think she may have married you would need to order marriage certs to check details of the father's name & occupation to see if any match. Confirming a death can be difficult, but often an address/place of death or the name of the informant can help, as can burial details - e.g. in a Glasnevin burial register (Pay-website).

If she stayed at the same address or with the similar household members you may be be to trace some details using the Dublin City voters registers on the Dublin City Library Website - 1908-1915, 1938-1964. (Voting entitlement changed by the 1930s, so more people appear in the later registers)

edit : are they the Hughes family running a boarding house at 166 Church Street ?
Parents Edward & Christina, he was born Co. Kildare is wife born Dublin city.
same address in 1911 - 166 Church Street

 

 

 

shanew147IrelandXO Volunteer

 

Thankyou for the inforamtion.

Yes it apperas the family owned a boarding house and next door 164 Church street.As that is listed as my address

Will check the voting roll thanks for her, as long as she did marry before she had the right to vote I may find inforamtion. 

I have information on Christina and Mary Ann her daughter but nothing on Elizabeth except her address was in my grandfathers war diary and he visited Dubin after armistic day. I assume he met his other cousins as well but just L Hughes was in the diary. He did get into a bit of trouble being missing for 5 days in Dublin but the war was over, he was with family so who wouldnt have a bit of fun.

 

eevee

 

Thankyou for the inforamtion.

Yes it apperas the family owned a boarding house and next door 164 Church street.As that is listed as my address

Will check the voting roll thanks for her, as long as she did marry before she had the right to vote I may find inforamtion. 

I have information on Christina and Mary Ann her daughter but nothing on Elizabeth except her address was in my grandfathers war diary and he visited Dubin after armistic day. I assume he met his other cousins as well but just L Hughes was in the diary. He did get into a bit of trouble being missing for 5 days in Dublin but the war was over, he was with family so who wouldnt have a bit of fun.

 

eevee

 

Thankyou for the inforamtion.

Yes it apperas the family owned a boarding house and next door 164 Church street.As that is listed as my address

Will check the voting roll thanks for her, as long as she did marry before she had the right to vote I may find inforamtion. 

I have information on Christina and Mary Ann her daughter but nothing on Elizabeth except her address was in my grandfathers war diary and he visited Dubin after armistic day. I assume he met his other cousins as well but just L Hughes was in the diary. He did get into a bit of trouble being missing for 5 days in Dublin but the war was over, he was with family so who wouldnt have a bit of fun.

 

eevee

 

Thankyou for the inforamtion.

Yes it apperas the family owned a boarding house and next door 164 Church street.As that is listed as my address

Will check the voting roll thanks for her, as long as she did marry before she had the right to vote I may find inforamtion. 

I have information on Christina and Mary Ann her daughter but nothing on Elizabeth except her address was in my grandfathers war diary and he visited Dubin after armistic day. I assume he met his other cousins as well but just L Hughes was in the diary. He did get into a bit of trouble being missing for 5 days in Dublin but the war was over, he was with family so who wouldnt have a bit of fun.

 

eevee

 

Thankyou for the inforamtion.

Yes it apperas the family owned a boarding house and next door 164 Church street.As that is listed as my address

Will check the voting roll thanks for her, as long as she did marry before she had the right to vote I may find inforamtion. 

I have information on Christina and Mary Ann her daughter but nothing on Elizabeth except her address was in my grandfathers war diary and he visited Dubin after armistic day. I assume he met his other cousins as well but just L Hughes was in the diary. He did get into a bit of trouble being missing for 5 days in Dublin but the war was over, he was with family so who wouldnt have a bit of fun.

 

eevee

sorry posted once but somehow it added many times 

eevee

SInce there's a business involved I checked this address in the street listings of Thom's directories - E. Hughes, probably still listed under Edward snr's name in 1914, but by 1917 the address is shown as ruins   :

1910  - 166 Church St., E. Hughes, dining rooms  (Café, Restaurant)
1914  - 166 Church St., E. Hughes, dining rooms
1917 - 166 Church St., ruins

There's no sign of any Hughes Dining Rooms, Restaurant or Boarding houses/hotels in the Trades index

Do you know when Edward's widow Christina died ?

 

 

shanew147IrelandXO Volunteer

Christina died in 1940.I believe her daughter Mary Ann who married Peter Leon ran a boarding house also next door. 

eevee

The Christina you mentioned that died in 1940 is buried in Glasnevn (Prospect) and I was able to work out an address for her - 12, Hendrick St. Dublin. The 1940 Dublin City voters registers shows Christina at this address in 1939/40 and 1940/41, and also an Elizabeth Hughes from 1939/40 to at least 1950.

Hendrick St. runs from Queen St. to Hendrick place in Dublin North City to the west of the Four Courts, and in directory listings from the late 1920s numbers 11 to 15 were listed as tenements.

If you dont have the details already, it may be worth checking the Glasnevin record in more detail, as there could be other family members buried in the same plot.

shanew147IrelandXO Volunteer

This is my husbands family, if this link is still active please reply, there are many members of this family living in Dublin.

kellyeileen20@…

Hi Eileen.
We live in new zealand.
Decendants of Patrick boylan. Christina's brother. My grandfather was Grant who visited his cousins during his service with Roysl Kents.
We dont know much about the family so would love to here more

eevee

Hi Eevee,

My husbands Gt grandfather was Edward Hughes married to Christina , they lived in Church St and ran a guest house, they also had another guest house at 12,, Hendrict Street which was in the family until as recent as thirty years ago, We were only at the grave in Glasnevin this week, where Edward and his wife and four of his daughters are buried. His son Christopher ( my husbands grandfather ) and his wife Margaret and some of their children  ( Theresa, Edward (Teddy), Jack (John) are buried 5 rows in frony of Edwards grave. They also had four other children, Christina ( my husbands mother who died in 200 aged 80 ), Maureen who died in 1973 ( who lived all her life in Hendrict St and died at age 40) , Patrick who died in 2003 aged 80, and Christopher who died around 2009 again in his eighties. There is one surviving daughter Betty (Elizabeth) who is eighty three and lives in a nursing home. I will follow up with more details later but would prefer to correspond privately.

Eileen

kellyeileen20@…

Thankyou. I am unsure how to private message u on this.
This is my email
kathy@buchananca.co.nz

eevee

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