This is my great-grandfather. I calculate he was born sometime after 1850 but have yet to find the documents that establish that decisively. He was married sometime in his late twenties to Maria (whose picture is next in this gallery) who died in 1905. The 1901 Census shows that they were both teachers, they had six children ranging in age from 19 to 8 years old, and they employed a servant.
Ten years later the 1911 Census shows that the only occupants of the house are Michael Senior and Sarah his youngest child. Where the five others were at this stage I have yet to establish, though I think that one of them was in America, because in 1915 the Ellis Island records show that Sarah, then aged 22 had arrived in America on the ill-fated Lusitania (which subsequently sank off the course of Cork less than two weeks later, after being torpedoed by a German U-boat, killing almost 1200 people on board). Sarah was claimed by a married sister who was living in New York, but as the records only reveal this sister's marital surname, with no mention of her first name, I am not sure which of her three sisters this lady was.
When Michael Senior's son Michael married Julia I surmise that they lived with the old man. After my grandfather's drowning, Michael Senior was clearly concerned about the education of his orphaned grandson. He was going blind, but he insisted on having his newspaper read to him every day: which is how my father learned to read, and to develop a lifelong interest in politics and current affairs.