June Bow and Karen Poff are the main authors, content creators and co-founders of the website www.youwho.ie This is a website dedicated to the lives of the people who lived in the Stillorgan Blackrock area (including some coverage of Dundrum and Roebuck). Whilst both have a business background, they studied genealogy and social history at UCD before taking the Lord Mayor's course in Local Studies at Dublin City Library & Archive on Pearse Street. The website records the large houses of the area and lists the occupants, and the staff who worked at these houses such as gardeners, field workers and domestic servants. They then conduct a genealogy ‘work up’ on each of the families, systematically researching to develop the family history, which involves collecting information from various sources like family stories, birth, marriage, and death records, census data, wills, and church records. The site also records the ‘affinity’ between families, the family connection created by marriage, linking individuals who are not related by blood but are connected through a spouse.
The site includes lots of historical summaries about the buildings/houses/amenities in the area including pages on Stillorgan Obelisk, the Reservoir, Bowling Alley and Stillorgan Shopping Centre.
June and Karen both live locally and are passionate about preserving the history of the area and the people who lived there and the site is updated on a daily basis.
They encourage descendants to get in touch with additional information/corrections and welcome photographs/images of the area and the people who once lived here.
The website has over 5000 pages covering 300 houses and 1000s of families that lived in Stillorgan over 50 years ago.
June Bow and Karen Poff are also the authors, content creators and co-founders of the website www.stbrigids300.com a website celebrating (2012) the tercentennial or 300 year anniversary of St Brigid’s Church of Ireland church in Stillorgan, Co Dublin, Ireland (Stillorgan Parish Church). The website was created in 2013 and is regularly updated. Whilst giving an account of the ecclesiastical history, its main focus is on its parishioners, the people who attended the church. Content includes meticulous transcriptions of the memorials from over 400 headstones and genealogical information on the thousands of people buried there. The site has information on the people who worked there i.e. rectors, curates, school teachers, organists, church wardens, treasurers and parish organisations such as scouts. The site also includes transcriptions of the Stillorgan parish registers (baptism, marriages and burials) and a listing of, and genealogical information, on those who were killed in WW1 and WW2.
The site includes lots of historical summaries about the buildings/houses/amenities in the area including pages on Stillorgan Obelisk, the Reservoir, Bowling Alley and Stillorgan Shopping Centre.
June and Karen both live locally and are passionate about preserving the history of the area and the people who lived there and the site is updated on a daily basis.
They encourage descendants to get in touch with additional information/corrections and welcome photographs/images of the area and the people who once lived here.
The website has over 5000 pages covering 300 houses and 1000s of families that lived in Stillorgan over 50 years ago.
June Bow and Karen Poff are also the authors, content creators and co-founders of the website www.stbrigids300.com a website celebrating (2012) the tercentennial or 300 year anniversary of St Brigid’s Church of Ireland church in Stillorgan, Co Dublin, Ireland (Stillorgan Parish Church). The website was created in 2013 and is regularly updated. Whilst giving an account of the ecclesiastical history, its main focus is on its parishioners, the people who attended the church. Content includes meticulous transcriptions of the memorials from over 400 headstones and genealogical information on the thousands of people buried there. The site has information on the people who worked there i.e. rectors, curates, school teachers, organists, church wardens, treasurers and parish organisations such as scouts. The site also includes transcriptions of the Stillorgan parish registers (baptism, marriages and burials) and a listing of, and genealogical information, on those who were killed in WW1 and WW2.