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Personal data Joseph Walter HARRIS 

• Alternative name: Joseph Harris
• He was born in the year 1837 in Fishmoyne,Kilfithmone,Tipperary.
• Occupations:
• in the year 1866 Butler living at Turner's Cottages Ballsbridge, Dublin in Dublin City.
• in the year 1859 ... Philip Ryan of Nenagh, charged every person whose stock he seized 15s. for what he called "caption fees". in Dublin City.
• Resident in the year 1859: 25 Mount Street, Dublin City,Ireland.
• (Culture of the Time) in the year 1833 in Thurles, Tipperary, Ireland: Rev. Mr. Gleeson,with his agents and a large police force, proceeded on Tuesday to driveout his parishoners in Boura not only for the tithes of 1832, but made them paythe half gale They not only drove away the sheep, cows and pigs, but also furniture and.
• He died in the year 1895, he was 58 years old.
• A child of John HARRIS and Susannah

Household of Joseph Walter HARRIS

He is married to Esther THOMPSON.

They got married on October 31, 1859 at St.Peter's C.of I.,Dublin City, he was 22 years old.Sources 3, 4

Child(ren):

1. Esther Harris  ± 1862-????
2. Hannah HARRIS  1863-1864
3. Joseph HARRIS  1866-1930 
4. Hannah HARRIS  1869-1946 
5. Sarah Esther HARRIS  1874-????
6. John Jacob HARRIS   
7. Thomas Harris  1879-???? 

Notes about Joseph Walter HARRIS

30 may 1833
A correspondent of the Tipperary Free Press states the Rev. Mr. Gleeson,
with his agents and a large police force, proceeded on Tuesday to drive his
parishoners in Boura (), not only for the tithes of 1832, but made them pay
the half gale() up to the 1st instant! They not only drove away the sheep,
cows and pigs, but also distrained the furniture and bedding of the
peasantry. In one instance the clothes of a serving girl of a farmer named
Mara was seized. Philip Ryan of Nenagh, charged every person whose stock he
seized 15s. for what he called "caption fees".



1869 living at 29 shelburne road dublin waiter engineer 1901 Engineer living at 17 russell street at time of the marriage of hannah 1901 lived for a while in manchester 29 Shelburne Road 25 Lower Mount street when marrying. Living in FISHMOYNE,Tipperary 1876;Occup.Servant( to ?) Mother living at Kilfitmore(sic) In 1911 Dublin had the worst housing conditions of any city in the United Kingdom. Its extensive slums were not limited to the back-streets or to impoverished ghettos. By 1911 the city slums also incorporated great Georgian houses on previously fashionable streets and squares. As the wealthy moved to the suburbs over the course of the 19th century, their huge, red-brick buildings were abandoned to the rent-paying poor. Tenements in inner-city Dublin were filthy, overcrowded, disease-ridden, teeming with malnourished children and very much at odds with the elite world of colonial and middle-class Dublin.The decay of Dublin was epitomised by Henrietta Street , which had once been home to generations of lawyers, but was, by 1911, overflowing with poverty. An astonishing 835 people lived in 15 houses. At number 10 Henrietta Street, the Sisters of Charity ran a laundry with more than 50 single women inside. The other houses on the street were filled with families. For example, there were members of nineteen different families living in Number 7. Among the 104 people who shared the house were charwomen, domestic servants, labourers, porters, messengers, painters, carpenters, pensioners, a postman, a tailor, and a whole class of schoolchildren. Out the back were a stable and a piggery.The story of Henrietta Street was replicated across the city, as streets amalgamated into slums. Life in the slums was raw and desperate. In 1911 nearly 26,000 families lived in inner-city tenements, and 20,000 of these families lived in just one room. Most families were dependent on intermittent casual labour; three out of five workers in the Heney household in Killarney Parade were unemployed. Remarkably, many one-room tenements did not just house a family, but that family also took in members of their extended families or tenants; the Dixon family at Buckingham St. also had a nurse-child, Thomas Power. In 1911 among the tenements of Mabbot Street and Tyrone Street ,17 families kept lodgers, most despite living in a single room. H

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