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Upstairs Downstairs

[by Fred Lynch in Norwich, Conneticut]

This is not the mansion where Mary Lynch worked and lived in 1900 in Norwich, Connecticut. That was down by the other end of Sachem Street, on broad beautiful Washington Street. This is the multi-family house where she died in 1938. Mary was living at that time with her retired, widowed brother John, her widowed sister Margaret, and her nephew Kenneth. She was then described as a “retired domestic.” She was single and 68 years old.

Years before, Mary was one of twelve persons living in the mansion of James and Catherine Shannon. The Shannons had five children and five live-in servants. It seems that everyone on Washington Street had servants for their Guilded Age homes. The neighbors, the Osgoods had seven servants for just the Mr. and Mrs..

Mary, listed on a census as the cook for the Shannons, was an immigrant from Ireland. So was Dorothea Byrne, the nurse, and Michael Sullivan, the coachman. The teamster, Frank Ryan’s parents were from Ireland, as were Abbie Clifford’s, who was the “waitress." That said, being an immigrant didn't mean being to be a servant in the Shannon house or on the street. Catherine Shannon was born in Ireland. Her husband James Shannon was the son of Irish immigrants, too. Looking next door, one can see a similar situation. Two Swedish-born servants worked for wealthy William McMullin, the steel manufacturer, who was himself an Irish immigrant. Whether upstairs or downstairs, they shared the same new home away from home.

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