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Bridget Cleary
chr.3 Jun 1855 Monasterevin, County Kildare, Ireland
d.22 Feb 1898 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
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m. 29 Nov 1845
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m. 9 May 1889
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Bridget Cleary was baptised on 3rd June 1855 at Monasterevin in County Kildare, daughter of a blacksmith named Maurice Cleary and his wife Alice (known as Ally) Dunne. The family lived at Skirteen, a townland to the west of the town, on the opposite side of the River Barrow. In 1872, when Bridget was 16 years old, her mother Ally died at Skirteen. On 9th May 1889, aged 33, Bridget married Thomas Doyle, a policeman from County Kilkenny. However, they did not marry in Ireland, but in England, at Brompton Oratory, the (then recently completed) largest Catholic Church in London. They did not stay long in England, returning to Ireland before 1890. They settled in Dublin, where they lived at 8 Lombard Street West, a modest Victorian terraced bungalow to the south of the city centre. Whilst living there they had four sons, although their third son died as a baby. Bridget died just over a month after giving birth to her fourth son, of septicaemia following the birth. She was 42 years old. After Bridget's death, Thomas sent the three surviving boys, aged from about eight down to one month, to live with Bridget's unmarried brother and sister, Thomas and Eliza Cleary, who still lived at Skirteen in Monasterevin. After Thomas retired from the police he went to live with them there. References
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