FUMBALLY LANE
I had a girlfriend who lived in Fumbally many years ago but her family moved to Wagga Wagga in New South Wales, Australia.
The name Fumbally is a peculiar one and a name that provokes a wide range of theories and suggestions as to its origin. The street is officially called Fumbally Lane today. It has not always been called that and has had many name variations since 1721.
The lane first appears in Charles Brookings map of 1728 without a name and with variations in subsequent maps including John Rocque's map of 1756 as 'Bumbailiff’s Lane' and in Wilson's map of 1798 as 'Fumbailie’s Lane'. It is mistakenly suggested by Rev. McCready in Dublin Street Names: Dated and Explained that Fumbally’s Lane (as it was then referred to in Thom's Directory) was just a ‘corruption of Bumbailiff's-lane’. [8] Fumbally's Lane is also the name James Joyce uses in chapter 3 of his novel Ulysses where he refers to "the tanyard smells".
However, there is some evidence that the name derives from a local Huguenot family named Fontvielle, Fomboilie, Fombily, Fombela, Fonveille and or Fombally. The name appears differently in a wide variety of sources. Christine Casey refers to the street association with a Huguenot family called Fombily and confirming this, Peter Pearson provides two names- David Fombily and Anthony Fombily who were described as ‘skinners’. Pearson, in reference to a study on the houses the Liberties by Peter Walsh, confirms this from a 1741 lease given on two houses on 'Fombily's Lane'. There is further evidence from Registry of Deeds entry of an assignment dated 7 October 1762, mentioned in RSAI Journal in 1893 [10] and from a reference to the RDS, written in 1915, refers to a Royal Dublin Society prize for life drawing in March 1746 was won by a 'Mr. Fombally', these all suggest that a Fombally or Fombely family resided in Dublin and were associated with this lane in the mid-18th century.
In addition, records retrieved from the International Genealogical Index show a Charles, David, Ester, Jacques, Jean, Jeanne, Phillippe and Susanne Fonvielle all born or christened in Dublin at Peter St. Church and at Lucy Lane at the beginning of the 18th century in the period between 1704-1718.
The name Fumbally is a peculiar one and a name that provokes a wide range of theories and suggestions as to its origin. The street is officially called Fumbally Lane today. It has not always been called that and has had many name variations since 1721.
The lane first appears in Charles Brookings map of 1728 without a name and with variations in subsequent maps including John Rocque's map of 1756 as 'Bumbailiff’s Lane' and in Wilson's map of 1798 as 'Fumbailie’s Lane'. It is mistakenly suggested by Rev. McCready in Dublin Street Names: Dated and Explained that Fumbally’s Lane (as it was then referred to in Thom's Directory) was just a ‘corruption of Bumbailiff's-lane’. [8] Fumbally's Lane is also the name James Joyce uses in chapter 3 of his novel Ulysses where he refers to "the tanyard smells".
However, there is some evidence that the name derives from a local Huguenot family named Fontvielle, Fomboilie, Fombily, Fombela, Fonveille and or Fombally. The name appears differently in a wide variety of sources. Christine Casey refers to the street association with a Huguenot family called Fombily and confirming this, Peter Pearson provides two names- David Fombily and Anthony Fombily who were described as ‘skinners’. Pearson, in reference to a study on the houses the Liberties by Peter Walsh, confirms this from a 1741 lease given on two houses on 'Fombily's Lane'. There is further evidence from Registry of Deeds entry of an assignment dated 7 October 1762, mentioned in RSAI Journal in 1893 [10] and from a reference to the RDS, written in 1915, refers to a Royal Dublin Society prize for life drawing in March 1746 was won by a 'Mr. Fombally', these all suggest that a Fombally or Fombely family resided in Dublin and were associated with this lane in the mid-18th century.
In addition, records retrieved from the International Genealogical Index show a Charles, David, Ester, Jacques, Jean, Jeanne, Phillippe and Susanne Fonvielle all born or christened in Dublin at Peter St. Church and at Lucy Lane at the beginning of the 18th century in the period between 1704-1718.
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