Person:Bridget Cleary (3)

Watchers
Bridget Cleary
m. 29 Nov 1845
  1. Mary Cleary1846 - 1927
  2. Denis Cleary1848 - 1883
  3. Thomas Cleary1850 - 1921
  4. Eliza Cleary1853 - 1928
  5. Bridget Cleary1855 - 1898
  6. Joseph Cleary1857 - 1888
  • HThomas DoyleAbt 1844 - 1919
  • WBridget Cleary1855 - 1898
m. 9 May 1889
  1. Joseph Andrew Doyle1890 - 1955
  2. James Sebastian Doyle1894 - 1954
  3. Thomas Cyril Doyle1896 - 1897
  4. John Maurice Doyle1898 - 1969
Facts and Events
Name Bridget Cleary
Gender Female
Christening[1] 3 Jun 1855 Monasterevin, County Kildare, Ireland
Marriage 9 May 1889 Kensington, London, EnglandBrompton Oratory
to Thomas Doyle
Death[2] 22 Feb 1898 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland8 Lombard Street West

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
  1. Monasterevin, County Kildare, Ireland. Catholic Parish Registers.

    1855 / June / 3 / B[aptized] Briget of Maurice Clary and Ally Dunne / Sp[onsors] John Quin and Ann Dunne / Skirteen

  2. Death register, in General Register Office of Ireland. Civil Registration.

    1898 DEATHS Registered in the District of No 3 South City in the Union of South Dublin in the County of City of Dublin
    No. 262
    Date and Place of Death: 1898 Twenty Second February, 8 Lombard St[reet] West
    Name and Surname: Bridget Doyle
    Sex: F
    Condition: Married
    Age last Birthday: 36 Years
    Rank, Profession, or Occupation: Wife of a Police Sargeant
    Certified Cause of Death and Duration of Illness: Chronic Septicaemia after Child birth one month 7 days Exhaustion Certified
    Signature, Qualification and Residence of Informant: Thomas Doyle, Husband, Present at death, 8 Lombard Street W
    When Registered: Second March 1898
    Signature of Registrar: Geo P. Copey, Registrar