Carol Maddock

• 06/Jul/2015 07:20:56

There's a Larkfield House in Ferrybank, just over the Waterford border in Kilkenny.

O Mac

• 06/Jul/2015 07:24:13

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] That's it alright www.google.ie/maps/@52.26453,-7.070787,3a,22.2y,338.74h,9... A "Mr Austin" is going to appear this morning

Swordscookie

• 06/Jul/2015 07:26:12

Very unusual for Poole to have a lady and child in a shot that are not clear and identifiable! Ferrybank seems to have had some very fine houses!

Carol Maddock

• 06/Jul/2015 07:29:46

https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Huzzah! Strutting around the house - never been first to locate a place. My work here is done. :)

O Mac

• 06/Jul/2015 07:30:14

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/swordscookie] I think this might be a close up of the baby? catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000589982

Carol Maddock

• 06/Jul/2015 07:35:00

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] Ah, I see where you're going with this - Mr Austin's Servants? catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000589983

O Mac

• 06/Jul/2015 07:39:30

https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Census website seems to be down this morning...

Carol Maddock

• 06/Jul/2015 07:40:22

https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Snap! Thought it was my wifi (or wiffy!). Drumming fingers impatiently... Mind you, trying not to get too excited about Mr Austin. Still have to work out who Mr Duffie/Duffy was.

Carol Maddock

• 06/Jul/2015 11:01:17

Census website is back. No promising Austins or Duffys/Duffies in Kilkenny or Waterford.

O Mac

• 06/Jul/2015 11:31:11

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] The DIA mentions a Duffin, William, Edmund --- who was Waterford County Surveyor 1877-1914------ residing at Larkfield, Waterford, <=1889-1913 1901 Census has a Duffin- civil engineer- residing in house with 12 windows in Kilmurry, Rathpatrick ( townland and parish above) Tho Duffins had moved to Waterford by 1911 where daughters are still single. No babies or young ones in 1901 or 1911

Carol Maddock

• 06/Jul/2015 12:24:42

https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Certainly the DIA's man is the same as in 1901/1911 census - the L'Estrange (great transcription as S Strange!) part of his name is so distinctive. His name causes problems in newspaper searches too. He appears as W. Duffin, W.E.L. Duffin, W.E.L.E. Duffin, W. L'Estrange-Duffin, L'Estrange Duffin, etc. He even appears as William F. L'Estrange Duffin in Slater's Royal National Directory, 1894 with his address as Larkfield, Ferrybank. Well covered in newspapers. He was very exercised about coastal erosion, and all the other matters you'd expect of a County Surveyor. It was decided on his retirement that he had been so good at his job that he should receive a pension of two-thirds of his salary. I was hoping to find a flowery obituary that would speak of Larkfield House, but 'twas not to be. He married Alice Susan Eagar (A.S. on the census) in district of Kilkeel, Co. Down between April and June 1880.

O Mac

• 06/Jul/2015 17:19:49

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] All the Larkfield House pictures in the Archive were taken on the same day.....the windows are open to same degree in both the Duffin and Austin sets.... So..... a mystery? The house is vacent in 1911 so possibility a Mr Austin moved in with new family after 1911 and Poole simply refers to Larkfield as it might have been called.......Duffin's House. !! Or Mr Austin was renting 'Duffins house' Two of Duffins bridges survive. www.flickr.com/photos/johnfinn/14083901573/in/photolist-6... www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/3656019327/in/photolis... The Redmond Bridge was replaced in 1984. www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/6959309626/in/photolist-b... www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/8438884900/in/dateposted/ Quiet day

Carol Maddock

• 06/Jul/2015 18:33:20

https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] If only Mr Austin had left any traces in his wake, never mind fine bridges! He had to have been well-to-do with that clatter of servants. I even tried the dog licence registers for the two Austin dogs, but to no avail. Deffo agree on his renting of Larkfield house! Quiet day indeed - has left me feeling I've a brain like a turnip... https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/6343957424

National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 06/Jul/2015 23:03:15

Thanks all for the critical inputs on this one - especially to https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] for confirming the location, https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] for the important corroborating street view, and https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] for more information on Mr Duffin the architect!

sharon.corbet

• 07/Jul/2015 04:20:56

The 1913 telephone directory has a Mrs. A.R. Newport at Larkfield House.

sharon.corbet

• 07/Jul/2015 06:18:12

Prior to Duffin, there was a Captain P. Brenann, who died in 1878. I think his wife may have lived on in the house, as the 1881 Slater's had a reference to a Mary Brennan in Larkfield. Even earlier, John Snow lived there.

guliolopez

• 07/Jul/2015 09:19:56

https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] RE:

Even earlier, John Snow lived there.