LaurenceandAnna

Household:
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Laurence MARMION Self M Male W 58 IRE Retail Grocer IRE IRE
Annie MARMION Wife M Female W 63 HANOVER Keeping House HANOVER HANOVER
Annie MARMION Dau S Female W 24 LA At Home IRE HANOVER
Frank MARMION Son S Male W 23 LA   IRE HANOVER

Census Place New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana

1880 Census New Orleans

this branch of the family ended with Frank and Annie, Laurence and Anna's children. They both married late in life. Frank married Katie Murphy and Annie married David Joseph Daly. they lived next door to each other, on the same street where they grew up. Neither ever had any children.Frank,and his father Laurence did not continue in the family wholesale grocery business after the war, more than likely because goods were difficult to get, instead they worked as carpenters. The reconstruction required quite alot of new housing. Times were very hard during this period.

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After the War:
Name:LawrenceMarmion
Location 1: 6??0 Dryades
Occupation: carpenter
Year: 1890
City: New Orleans
State: LA

Name: Frank Marmion
Location 1: 630 Dryades Location 2: 632 1/2
Dryades
Occupation: carpenter
Year: 1891
City: New Orleans
State: LA

Drayades Market
The markets were filled with an amazing variety of local and imported foods and products. The Dryades Market was one of many city-owned public market. It was a large open-air market on Dryades and Melpomene streets. Here there was prepared food. In the 1800s, there were ordinances governing the preparation of food making it unlawful to cook any meat, game, fish or vegetables within the markets or on the sidewalks or nearby public grounds. And lack of refrigeration made keeping food fresh difficult. Other ordinances dealt with matters of lighting fires, but vendors were allowed to heat coffee, tea, chocolate and milk. However, you could always find women selling pralines, calas tout chaud (hot rice cakes) and gingerbread. (from Blake P.)
Most importantly to a growing operation, Laurence would have dealt in liquor. You bought Liquor at grocery stores, he would have been the wholesaler to distribute it. The war however ened this for him, though not his brothers