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Bridget Davis

1823-1899 · Kells, County Meath, Ireland
Born 1823, Kells, County Meath, Ireland
Died 1899
Children include Nicholas

Bridget Davis was baptized in the Catholic parish of Kells, County Meath, on 18 January 1823. She was the daughter of Thomas Davis and Mary Halpin. The priest wrote the mother's surname as Halpin, Halpeny and Halfpeny over the years, all forms of one Meath name. Her sponsors were Hugh McLoughlan and Mary Swift. The same parish baptized more children of Thomas Davis and Mary Halpin: Alice in 1821, a second Alice in 1825, Ann in 1837 and Thomas in 1839.

On 22 February 1846 she married Pat Farrelly at Kells. The priest wrote her as Bridy Daves, and the witnesses were Js Farrelly and a Mary Douty. Three children were baptized there: James in December 1846, with a Frances Davis as one of his sponsors, Nicholas in April 1848 and Judith in October 1850. Those were the years of the Great Famine in Ireland. About 1851 or 1852 the Farrellys emigrated to Troy, New York, where the name became Farley. The family remembered that they left James behind with grandparents and brought Nicholas with them.

In the state census of 1855 she was in the Sixth Ward of Troy with her husband, a newborn daughter Mariah, and two lodgers named Smith. In Troy Bridget had more children: Maria, Thomas, Julia, Patrick and Francis. When St. Joseph's Church baptized Francis in 1862 the register named his mother as Bridget Davis. In 1865 the family lived in the Sixth Ward of Troy, and her husband worked in the iron trade. Censuses gave her birth year as 1823, 1824, 1825 or 1827.

Patrick Farley died in May 1892. The 1893 Troy directory lists Bridget as his widow, and she stays in the directory until the 1899 edition. Bridget Farley died on 1 July 1899 at North Greenbush, the town at the south edge of Troy where the family had lived since at least 1880. She was buried that month in St. Joseph's Cemetery, in the Farley lot where her husband lay, Row 85, Lot 13. She was about 76.

Children

Nicholas J. Farley 1848-1916

Sources

Catholic parish registers of Kells, County Meath, marriages, 22 February 1846; FamilySearch, Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1740-1900, ark 61903/1:1:6BWL-SM5X.
Catholic parish registers of Kells, County Meath, baptisms, 12 April 1848; FamilySearch, Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1740-1900, ark 61903/1:1:6BWV-K9FK. Also James Farrelly, 6 December 1846 (6B6L-H81J), and Judith Farelly, 9 October 1850 (6BS5-FKL3).
Catholic parish registers of Kells, County Meath, baptisms, 18 January 1823; FamilySearch, Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1740-1900, ark 61903/1:1:6B86-3VDL.
New York state census, 1865, Troy, Rensselaer County, Ward 6, household of Pat Farley; FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:QVNN-9Z75.
St. Joseph's Cemetery, Troy, Rensselaer County, New York; photograph on Find a Grave memorials 139105251 and 139105313.
Catholic parish registers of Kells, County Meath, marriages 1791-1873, National Library of Ireland microfilm 04185/02, image 95 (registers.nli.ie, vtls000635210).
Catholic parish registers of Kells, County Meath, baptisms 1831-1873, National Library of Ireland microfilm 04185/04, image 99 (registers.nli.ie, vtls000635212).
Catholic parish registers of Kells, County Meath, baptisms 1831-1873, National Library of Ireland microfilm 04185/04, image 106 (registers.nli.ie, vtls000635212).
New York state census, 1855, Troy, Rensselaer County, Ward 6, household of Pattrick Farley; FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:K63H-ZQ7.
United States census, 1860, Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, 6th Ward; FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:MC7M-FNV.
United States census, 1870, Troy, Rensselaer County, New York; FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:M8K3-SYP.
New York State Death Index, 1899, North Greenbush, Rensselaer County; FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:QG28-PZ76.
Kells Catholic parish registers: baptism of Bridgt Davis, 18 January 1823 (FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:6B86-3VDL); baptisms of Alice Davis 1821 (6BWJ-3NXF) and 1825 (6BWT-RP22), Ann Davis 1837 (6B44-YG1R), Thomas Davis 1839 (6BW5-TKJS); marriage 22 February 1846 (6BWL-SM5X); New York state census 1865, Troy Ward 6 (QVNN-9Z75); Find a Grave memorial 139105313 (Bridget Davis Farley); Kells marriages, National Library of Ireland microfilm 04185/02, image 95; Kells baptisms 1831-1873, microfilm 04185/04, image 99 (James Farrelly, 1846); New York state census 1855, Troy Ward 6 (K63H-ZQ7); New York State Death Index, 1 July 1899, North Greenbush (QG28-PZ76)

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