Ms Cummins of Dublin

This is Ms Cummins…isn’t she lovely? She was associated with the famous Gings costume shop in Dublin, this photo and others of her were found in a Dublin bric a brac shop.

Research tells:

She was Violet Cummins.

1901 Census shows her aged 5 in O’Neills Buildings, (Fitzwilliam Ward Dublin), d of James Cummins, butcher’s labourer and Margaret Cummins, dressmaker.

1911 Census shows her aged

15 in 8 Camden Place Dublin

, her mother a widow.

Recorded in 1967 as costumier on a theatrical pageant of life of Margaret Aylward.

Gings itself was destroyed by fire in 1969, there was a Cyril Ging and a Thomas Ging.

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