The Warnock Sisters - 1870-1900 Millinars and Dressmakers
Francis had 3 daughters, Amina, Louisa and Susan, In 1840, 42 & 44 respectively. Louisa suffered from possibly a mental condition and was cared for at the Stewart institute (more on that later) The other two had their own business in Westmoreland St from around 1870 through to at least 1900. To actually have a main st address was an achievement in itself at the time and to be located in Westmoreland and then Nassau St showed they had money (backing) or possibly influence from Dad (Francis)..
Thom's irish Almanac and directory 1875 for Dublin City.
"In 1905, Mary Ann Kelly persuaded her adoring husband to sell his Kilkenny farm and buy her a drapery shop in Rathangan, Co Kildare. She was not unusual in her aspiration. The number of women drapers in their own right (not the wives of male drapers) rose by 40 per cent between 1891 and 1911. More Irish girls and women than ever before, of all social classes, were leaving home regularly to take part in some kind of public life – work, schooling, buying and selling, activism and entertainment. Trades of all kinds struggled against the ready-made goods in shops, but female dressmakers and milliners (often working for and in drapery shops) held their own, as demand for reasonably priced, fashionable women’s clothes soared.
While factory workers and servants saved their finery for their time off, teachers, nurses, secretaries, clerks in offices, telegraphists and telephonists needed to look presentable all day, every day. Their numbers rose dramatically in the quarter-century before the first World War."
Extract from 'The IrishTimes' in 1911.
Entry from 1892 showing Warnock and Frazer at Nassau St.
Ilistration from Slaves to the neddel dipicting wemen working the trade almose ialdentical to the place we visited in 2014 in Nassau St ( Artical next page).
