ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

• 25/Oct/2023 08:08:03

"American Money Accepted" ?

ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

• 25/Oct/2023 08:11:25

The Well House is still the Well House - maps.app.goo.gl/Zhxnxek35141ant89

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• 25/Oct/2023 08:27:03

https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Accepted from all the sailors aboard American naval vessels?

ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

• 25/Oct/2023 08:29:40

Caution daters! Mr O'Connor went to Queenstown/Cobh at least twice; see the differing state of the cathedral tower being built - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000299430 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000512839

ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

• 25/Oct/2023 08:55:22

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] Correction! Easier to read on this Lawrence photo , which says "American Money Exchanged" - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000318823

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• 25/Oct/2023 08:59:59

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32162360@N00/ Aha! Screwing in my pince-nez for a better view.

John Spooner

• 25/Oct/2023 10:05:50

My late aunt was an obsessive genealogist, especially concerning the surname Maltby, whether related to her or not. Among her Maltby contacts was an American, who sent her a copy of a letter sent by a Bessie Maltby of Pope's Quay, Cork, to a close relative of hers who had emigrated 42 years earlier (to Michigan I think). I think the letter dates from the mid-1870s. The Maltby menfolk worked at the Butter Market. Among the pieces of family news some paragraphs about Americans arriving and leaving Cobh may be relevant here

By your letter there was only one month between Cynthia's death and our dear Henry’s as he died on the sixth of February (18)73 and your daughters husband in November. How soon they followed each other. The cold of the country is so very severe that few can stand it. I suppose you are always wrapped up in furs. The ladies here scarcely wear furs at all. The climate is so very mild and furs are very expensive. It is getting very fashionable now as there are so many Americans coming over since the countries are so closely connected by the American steamers. Everything they bring across, mails and fruit of all descriptions but awfully dear. Apples they sell for a penny a piece. They are lovely, particularly a very green kind.

I suppose you would scarcely know Cork. Forty two years is a long time to be away from a place. it is greatly improved. Railway and steamers have done a great deal for it. The Cork river is beautiful down to Queenstown. Formerly it was called Cove. When the Queen came she changed it to Queenstown. We very often see the American mails off and all the passengers and they take lots of ferns and flowers away with them from Killarney.

Niall McAuley

• 25/Oct/2023 10:06:04

the ladies big hats suggest around 1910 to me

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• 25/Oct/2023 10:11:22

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29809546@N00/ That's gorgeous, John, thank you!

Niall McAuley

• 25/Oct/2023 10:22:08

the cathedral Tower and Spire were completed in 1919, not sure exactly when they were started.

Niall McAuley

• 25/Oct/2023 10:28:52

OK, a bit more searching suggests the tower was started in 1911. so a couple of these oconnor Cóbh shots are 1915ish.

John Spooner

• 25/Oct/2023 10:31:58

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland I've been keeping it up my sleeve for a few years now waiting for such an opportunity as this. I've just found the covering letter from a Bob Maltby in 1992, which includes how he deciphered the original

The original, I understand, was written on thin onion-skin paper. As a result, writing on one side of the page shows through in reverse on the other side. To complicate matters, the original was written on both sides of the paper, and also from top to bottom on addition to side to side - all of which made for great difficulty, if not impossibility, of reading it. I experimented with the office photocopier, and by a combination of enlargement and lightening, I came up with a more legible version. The next stage was to cover each page with a sheet of tracing paper and trace off the writing in each direction separately.

suckindeesel

• 25/Oct/2023 12:05:10

https://www.flickr.com/photos/32162360@N00/ Probably 4 dollars to the pound in those days

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• 25/Oct/2023 15:08:24

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29809546@N00/ Yes indeed, many thanks to Bob Maltby. Do you have many other missives stashed up your sleeve? :D

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• 25/Oct/2023 15:10:35

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30369211@N00/ Happy to go with 1913 for now (splitting the difference between 1910 hats and 1915 tower shots)...

O Mac

• 25/Oct/2023 15:23:40

We were here 7 years ago. I think the above was taken later that the Lawrence/French. In the Lawrence the pole next to the Well House has 2 insulators but a third has been added since. The Well House has bright lettering on the O Connor and dark lettering on the French. flic.kr/p/HiRTXT

suckindeesel

• 25/Oct/2023 16:11:21

https://www.flickr.com/photos/30369211@N00/ No Lusitania related shots, so don’t think he was there in 1915?

Dún Laoghaire Micheál

• 25/Oct/2023 19:08:01

Here's an earlier shot of the Well House when it was run by my Great Grandfather John Foley (1848 - 1908) and suitably captioned on the gable wall. The sign may have outlived him His daughter took charge of the licence in 1908. I dont know if that was just for the purpose of administering Probate or whether she continued the business in the Foly name for any considerable time. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000318388

Dún Laoghaire Micheál

• 25/Oct/2023 19:10:03

Coincidentally, this occasional Photo Detective won a Caption Competition back in the day and Library Towers delighted him with a print of the photo which still adorns my man cave.

Dún Laoghaire Micheál

• 25/Oct/2023 19:16:32

And another coincidence - it seems that John Foley, a former RIC Constable, got married in Cork in 1875 - twice - on the same day - by the same celebrant - in the presence of same two witnesses - in two different Diocses. One parish entry (St Patricks Cork) was clearly made in real time; the other (Cobh) was clearly made some time after the happy day. Presumably some later inquirer expected it to be in Cobh and filled the alleged gap not realising the real gig took place in the city. The celebrant was none other than Fr William Hickie the administrator of Cobh Cathedral who, when he wasnt "double-marrying" folk, was busy touring the world raising funds for the construction of Cobh Cathedral. And despite registering the marriage in Cork City and Cobh parishes, he somehow overlooked completing any Civil Registration.

ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

• 25/Oct/2023 20:38:03

Mr O'Connor also has a wider shot taken at 15:43 on a soggy afternoon (same day?). Fascinating to compare with the earlier Lawrence - more telephone isolators, "The American Saloon", the tree has grown well, Well House dark paint, Sea Baths advert gone, tug 'Gauntlet' at the wharf, etc - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000300796

O Mac

• 25/Oct/2023 22:04:23

ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq That other O Connor was taken sometime later than the above...i.e....note the second crossbar on the pole beside the Well House,

ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

• 25/Oct/2023 22:21:41

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03] Well spotted! NOT the same day! So photo above is possibly likely to be on Mr O'Connor's 'first' visit when the cathedral tower and spire were not yet being built, and the next door "c.1910" Bon Secour Convent didn't exist- catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000299430 www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20827...