Christopher Burgess
Christopher Burgess was born in Co. Wicklow around 1845. He appears to have come to Dublin with his parents and was living with them in Thomas Street at the time of his marriage.
In 1886 he married Sarah Rankin and had at least 10 children.
Between 1867and 1873, when he came to James's Street, he appears to have been apprenticed to John Dowling's shoemakers in Wood Quay. At this time 15 of the Quay's 22 premises housed shoemakers. Most of Christopher's shoe/boot making career was spent as a proprietor in James's Street, but at different addresses. Among his clients was the British Military.
He retired in 1919 and left "the Street" to live in Donore Cottage, where he died in 1928 of gout, bronchitis, and cardiac failure. He is buried in Glasnevin under the celtic cross he erected to commemorate his wife's death in 1906.