The Davis Family
Annie F. V. Davis
1904/5, in county Louth, Ireland
Richard Burleigh Davis
Lucy Susana Victoria (Porter) Davis
1911: 30 North Road, Westgate, Drogheda, county Louth
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George Burleigh Vicars Davis
1907, in Drogheda district, county Louth, Ireland
Richard Burleigh Davis
Lucy Susana Victoria (Porter) Davis
1911: 30 North Road, Westgate, Drogheda, county Louth
- Ireland Birth Index (2Q1907 vol 2 p422); county from 1911 census
- 1911 census
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Richard Burleigh Davis
20 January 1870, in Drogheda district, county Meath, Ireland
Richard Burleigh Davis
Sarah (Sidford) Davis
Lucy Susana Victoria Porter in 1903 in Drogheda district, county Louth, Ireland
Draper.
Dublin, Cork, and south of Ireland: a literary, commercial, and social review by Stratten & Stratten (1892), p123.
contains a description of the Davis family's store in Drogheda The
Richard Burleigh Davis referred to would be this Richard's father.
A. DAVIS & CO.,
Dress
and Mantle Makers, Milliners, Merchant Tailors, Outfitters, Hatters,
Ready-made Clothiers, House Furnishers, 6 and 7, West Street, Drogheda.
COMMERCIAL enterprise in this thriving centre of activity is well
represented by the fine establishment conducted by Messrs. A. DAVIS &
Co., Outfitters, Hatters, Ready-made Clothiers and Merchant Tailors &c.,
which firm combines one of the most prominent trading undertakings in
Drogheda. The name of Davis has for over 100 years been connected with
the trade of this City. The history of the firm takes us back to a
period seventy years ago, when the business was established by the late
Mrs. Davis under this title, the present representative of the family
being Mr. Richard Burleigh Davis, who continues the trade under the style
so long associated with the concern. The premises occupied by the firm
are situated at 6 and 7, West Street, and comprise a lofty and handsome
building with noble plate-glass frontage, which is devoted to the
display of a varied assortment of goods suitable for ladies' and
gentlemen's dress; also house furnishing, carpets, and a great variety of
general outfitting and ready-made tailoring; and offers for inspection a
splendid display of goods in the various departments. These include
ready-made clothing of all descriptions for boys', youths', and men's wear;
hats, scarfs, shirts, braces, hosiery, and umbrellas. The firm also combine
house furnishing, and they show in their large plate-glass windows
wicker and bamboo work in all kinds of useful and ornamental household
requisites; as also all the newest styles: gents' outfitting, Manchester
goods, woollens, flannels, hosiery and gloves, umbrellas and walking sticks,
travelling rugs and Gladstone bags, trunks and portmanteaus, and every
description of outfitting for the traveller by sea or land. Special
attention is directed by Messrs. DAVIS
to their bespoke tailoring
department, in which they show a splendid selection of the best
qualities of West of England coatings, vestings, and trouserings; Irish
and Scotch Tweed suitings, Friezes, etc.; overcoatings, livery and
hunting
cloths, sound and durable of texture, and extensive in variety. A
first-class cutter is employed for this important branch of the trade,
ensuring the most unqualified satisfaction in fit, style, and make of
every garment supplied by the firm. Between forty and fifty hands
are
employed in the business, and some eighty to a hundred workers, under
the
personal supervision of the principal, whose thoroughly practical
knowledge of every branch of the trade is an ample guarantee for the
highest efficiency in the management of this deservedly successful
undertaking. They are noted for the superiority of the cut and
finish of
their ladies' dresses, which is carried on under the scientific cutting
now so popular, and their mantle and millinery departments also merit
the public confidence which their extensive business proves they have
secured.
1911: 30 North Road, Westgate, Drogheda, county Louth
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