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Bridget Mullin
b.Abt 1844 County Mayo, Republic of Ireland
d.14 Jun 1915 Burnley, Lancashire, England
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m. 27 Jun 1863
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Bridget died just four months after her youngest daughter, Agnes (my grandmother) married, so was not known to my parent's generation. There are several photographs in my mother's collection which she considered to be of Bridget Mullin, but I am convinced that they are of two different women! The face in the photo I have chosen has a likeness to Agnes' face, so it is probably the right person! [edit] Bridget's Birth PlaceIn the 1911 census, Bridget finally names the place in Ireland where she was born. While "Co. Mayo" can be deciphered without difficulty, the first element presents a challenge (and one transcriber has come up with something which is clearly incorrect). See below:
[edit] No MemoriesNo memories of Bridget have been passed down. Perhaps because Agnes married above her class, my mother's generation were brought up very much as members of their father's family and embraced a pride in its history and considerable achievements. Both my mother and her youngest brother unquestioningly held the view that Murtagh/Mullin history was not worth knowing, (though they had Murtagh aunts, uncles and cousins in their lives). They appeared to have been discouraged from thinking about where their maternal ancestors came from, or what they were like. For Agnes, now a member of a mill-owning family, it would not be helpful if her children said things to relatives about origins in the Burnley slums, preceded by life in Mayo - a famine black-spot. I was surprised to discover that, in the 1861 census, the still unmarried Bridget was living with her parents in Burnley. I had never been under the impression that they immigrated. Searching in the online parish records revealed three additional babies who died, making Agnes at least the 11th birth, not the 8th as I had supposed. Image Gallery
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