The Shoemaker's Daughters : 1867-1972 or How I found my Great Grand Aunt Eliza Presentation on The Burgess family of James's Street for Dublin City Library and Archive Family History Day 24 March 2012 The best way to view the powerpoint presentation is to right-click on this link and download the file to your computer for viewing with a Powerpoint viewer. To view online just left-click on the link. This is my third Powerpoint so I am still sort of feeling my way. Background Having done a presentation on Ballybrack for the Local History Day in September 2008,and one for the Family History Day in 2010, I was sort of getting a taste for it, and I wondered if Máire Kennedy might be interested in yet another presentation, for Family History Day, this time on the Ma's family,. My subject would be the family of the Ma's grandfather, Christopher Burgess, who was a shoemaker (master bootmaker) and whose business career was mostly in James's Street around the area of the Fountain. I had already menioned, in the previous presentation on PJ Medlar, that Christopher had a gaggle of daughters (9) to marry off, one of whom he offloaded onto PJ. This conjured up the title "The Shoemaker's Daughters" as a device for presenting a serial examination of Christopher's family. The two sons could be tagged on at the end for good measure. Máire was on, and here we are. The Presentation The presentation is in Powerpoint and draws heavily on photos I found in my Granny's album, along with updates I took myself, and a few that Fr. Gerry Fleming winkled out of Aunt Mollie's collection. It also draws heavily on the GRO photostats from the BDM ledgers. Running Order This is the document I used as a script for the presentation. Script (doc) Longer Text This is the document I used to assemble relevant textual information. It probably still needs tidying up. Long Text (doc) Handout This short handout was distributed at the presentation. Handout (doc) Relevant material on my website These are pages or posts of mine which are relevant to the present topic.     General index to Family History content of Website Reference to Family History index page on my site.     Cameos I have a number of cameos as follows. They are up to date in varying degees. The long text document (above) is the latest version of everything and should take precedence over the cameos. I will get round to updating these in due course: Sarah Rankin   Póló's Great-grandmother (mother of Sarah Burgess) Christopher Burgess   Póló's Great-grandfather (father of Sarah Burgess) Joseph Mortimer   Póló's Great-grandfather (father of Patrick Mortimer) Patrick Mortimer   Póló's maternal Grandfather Sarah Burgess   Póló's maternal Grandmother Sarah Mortimer   Póló's Mother John Burgess   Póló's Granduncle Christopher Joseph Burgess  Póló's Granduncle Nicholas P Fleming   Póló's Granduncle (by marriage) Nicholas Fleming   Póló's Granduncle - once removed (by marriage) Patrick J Medlar   Póló's Granduncle (by marriage) Peggy Medlar   Póló's Granduncle (by marriage)'s cousin Larry Medlar   Póló's Granduncle (by marriage)'s brother. The Larry Medlar page above consists of a series of taped stories. While they are all relevant in varying degrees, the one I am drawing most attention to is the story of the gun, as I had intended playing this at the talk, but didn't have time. This is a specific link to that story: Larry Medlar on Andy Duffy's revolver     Where they lived Photos of where people lived along with some descriptive material.     Where they were buried Some graves in Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin.     Death/funeral related material Death Notice Obituary and Funeral Attendance Wills     Office Farewells The full text of the two verses written for my mother on her leaving the Employment Exchange in Beresford Place in 1942.     Places of origin I have done a page on the place of origin of Patrick Mortimer's mother: Rosmuc, Co. Galway (Mary Ann Connolly)     The Barrington Connection The Barringtons and my mother's family, connected for over a century. The Barrington Connection     Killester John Burgess's descendants on the Howth Road. Howth Road Burgesses Relevant material in my blogs. Posts relevant to the present topic. Some general reflections on doing my family history Shoots, leaves and branches Dublin in the rare oul times My Tachondria and other trivia From small acorns Traitors all Tadhg a' dá thaobh Vótáil as Gaeilge Contributions to other publications Pue's occurrences PJ Medlar (1885-1949) Other talks in DCLA Ballybrack 1500-1900 A short history of Ballybrack/Killiney The Medlar's Gotcha The Medlar Family A Policeman's Lot The Dwyer Family The Corsican Defence Restoration of Martello Tower No.7 (Dublin South) . Go to History Page Go to Family History Page