K, the 'Housesweep' with a 'midden name' is the female counterpart of S. They are often mentioned together but do not seem to interact much.
Kate Strong, as is generally realized, was a tyrannical Dublin streetcleaner of the 1630s. Sir James Carroll, Lord Mayor in 1634, wrote of her: 'She is so much affected to profit as she will never find sufficient carriage to take away the dung, for where six carts are few enough to take away the dung of the city every week to keep it clean, she did and will maintain but two, which can scarce keep the way from the castle to the church clean, or that from the Mayor's house to the church, neglecting all the rest of the city, which she cleans but sparingly and very seldom... the more that she was followed the worse she grew, and kept the streets the fouler.'
Kate Strong was indeed a widow, but remarried with the merchant Thomas White thus permitting K and S in FW, theoretically at least, to be conjoined. Her two assistants, whose names suggest Shem and Shaun, were James Bellewe and John Butcher.
McHugh, Roland / The sigla of Finnegans wake
K 6)
Where
What means Summon in the
Housewipe
Housesweep Dina? Gellory be to the sails of cloth nowand I have to
beeswax the bringing in all the muck of the parks to us and I thawght I
knew the
his stain on the flower and who broke the
dandleass and who seen the rest of the plum
goosebellies
and who leff that there and who put this here & who put the
jam
pot in the yard and
whatareyou
whatin the
love of the
whatin the name of Sin Pollareyou rubbing the
flowerofthe
sideofthe flowerofthe parlourwith Shite will you have a plateful?
David Hayman - Joyce, James / A first-draft version of Finnegans wake (1963)