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A funny looking house all cobbled together making what somebody thought was a Swiss Cottage? This fine, carefully posed photograph from Mr. Poole has a family showing off their finery and their toys! Their dress would indicate that the shot was taken earlier in the date range rather than later? Where is/was it and who were the lucky family?
As usual, the answers weren't long coming. The "where" was confirmed as Swiss Cottage, Newtown Road, Waterford, and the "who" as the Fanning family. The "when" is less certain, but - despite the catalogue range - possibly a few years earlier than the 1901 census....
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford
Date: Catalogue range c.1901-1954. But likely around or before 1901.
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 0118
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As usual, the answers weren't long coming. The "where" was confirmed as Swiss Cottage, Newtown Road, Waterford, and the "who" as the Fanning family. The "when" is less certain, but - despite the catalogue range - possibly a few years earlier than the 1901 census....
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford
Date: Catalogue range c.1901-1954. But likely around or before 1901.
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 0118
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Owner: National Library of Ireland on The CommonsSource: Flickr Commons
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DannyM8
At last
a Dogsome Dogs https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustraliaB-59
Swiss Cottage, Newtown Road, Waterford, County Waterford www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&...
B-59
OSI 25": maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,661343,611896,12,9
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Where's Captain Fanning ? Mentioned in "Similar Items". Wonderful photo of a characterful family.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Two dogs on the miserable bench-sitters lap? Everyone looks miserable - even the donkey has a long face!
O Mac
That's Captain Fanning's house. Unbeknownst to him we were all there before.
O Mac
www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/9238551448/in/photolist-f...
Carol Maddock
Presenting the Fannings in all their close-up glory! https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/9238551448/
Carol Maddock
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Ah Snap! You beat me to the draw... :)
O Mac
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Ah ha !! Sure! I live out here in the Wild West....
DannyM8
Here is a piece I found on Mr Poole a few days ago, it was news to me, what about you? https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/31023274535/in/dateposted/
DannyM8
Fannings - 1901 Census - Is this them? www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001234076/ Fanning John 60 Male Head of Family Provisions Merchant Fanning Elizabeth 49 Female Wife Fanning Alfred 18 Male Son Clerk Provisions Store Fanning William 17 Male Son Scholar Quinlan Catherine 40 Female Servant Domestic
Carol Maddock
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] I only heard about it around 3 months ago! Some story there...
Niall McAuley
This image looks to be flipped compared to the NIAH pic and Google search? No, we are looking at the back, I think.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Thanks all! Map, description, tags, etc all updated. (Surprised https://www.flickr.com/photos/la_belle_province hasn't stopped by to comment on the kids fashions and the fetching parasol :) )
La Belle Province
Thanks for thinking of me! It was a busy week. I am still recovering from the recent trifecta of hat, spat and frog.
dorameulman
What a wonderful old photo. I love the dress, the donkey and the kids on the ledge but the best part for me is the young girl crying her eyes out in the naughty seat. Brilliant. 👏👍😍
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/dorameulman Here are the miserable young girl and her puppies enlarged for schadenfreude - https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia/30297984603/
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] The more I look at the 'puppies', I think there may be only one after all (as in the other photo). It is a bit of an optical illusion with the fur markings. What does anyone else think?
B-59
I still think there are two, but hard to say.
Karin Joy Passmore
The woman's dress must be 1870-1889, bustle and natural shoulders.
hockadilly
Also, I think that's a boy. Young boys wore skirts and long curls at this age. The military jacket and the fringe suggest a boy. Also, there's only one puppy in the shot of the family all together.
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] Here are Alfred and William in 1911, Provision Merchants.
Niall McAuley
I wonder where the 4 young children were for the census in 1901? Who lived in the Swiss Cottage in 1911?
Niall McAuley
OK, I think the two lads are living in the house in 1911. No sign of Elizabeth Fanning anywhere - perhaps she went back to England? Mary Teresa Newton living with the boys in 1911 would be her younger sister.
sharon.corbet
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Elizabeth Fanning died in Brighton in 1909, and her husband John in 1910. According to one of his obituaries, they had 6 sons, with Alfred, William and John at home when he died, and the other 3 (unnamed) in “responsible positions in America”. I think a 4th son is Captain Martin Fanning, but the other 2 are as yet nameless. The earliest this photo can be is 1885, when Swiss Cottage went on sale. According to Alfred and William’s birth records they had been living in Tramore in 1882 and 1883. The impression I get is that John and Martin, at least, are older than Alfred and William (both J. & M. probably born in the mid 1870s.)
Niall McAuley
Marriage of John Fanning and Ellen Power, Dungarvan 1870. Here is a birth record for a Michael in 1871, father John a Clerk, mother Ellen formerly Power. Francis, 1872, likewise. John Joseph, 1874, ditto. Martin Fanning from 1875, father John a Butter Merchant, mother Ellen formerly Power. Mary Philomena, 1876, likewise. I do not know what happens to Mary later. Ellen, 1877. Then we have a death record for Ellen Fanning 30, wife of butter buyer, debility after confinement, also 1877 and daughter Ellen aged 18 days (on same page). Then a gap, and Alfred Joseph, 1882, mother Elizabeth formerly Newton. And next, William Newton Fanning, 1883, likewise. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet] So the 6 sons are John's, only the youngest 2 are Elizabeth's.