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Limerick / Re: Annie May O'sullivan brick wall
« on: Thursday 04 April 19 17:39 BST (UK) »
Hello Matt
Thank you so much for this further info, and now my own apologies for a tardy reply. And, yes, our mutual contact has let me see the photos - I can tell you that, as a young woman, my own mother was the spitting image of her Aunty Kathleen. It was very strange to see the familiar face come up on screen. My mother died in December 2017, aged 94 years and 4 months; I suspect that she was about the same age as your late mother - they would have been first cousins.
My family (which means my father's family, into which my mother absorbed herself) always said that Bridget cut off all contact with her family in Ireland. I do not recall any mention being made of her sisters in England. Bridget was just a one-woman family and that was accepted unquestioningly. It is all very complicated and not for a public post. Apparently, RC will not let me post a private message until I have made a qualifying number of posts.
Re the Blitz: Bridget worked in a munitions factory (Cossars, I believe) during WW2. She was very nimble-fingered and was on the bomb assembly line. She and my mother lived in the Stroud Green area of London, in a flat in a house with a big cellar. During the heavy bombing of 1940/41, they sheltered in this cellar and Bridget spent the time crochet-ing at lightning speed - she kept her mind off things by keeping her fingers busy.
Have you checked out the O'Sullivan thread on British Genealogy and Family History Forum?
Finally, I will ask our mutual contact to pass on my email address That will make communication much easier.
Best wishes
Jill
Thank you so much for this further info, and now my own apologies for a tardy reply. And, yes, our mutual contact has let me see the photos - I can tell you that, as a young woman, my own mother was the spitting image of her Aunty Kathleen. It was very strange to see the familiar face come up on screen. My mother died in December 2017, aged 94 years and 4 months; I suspect that she was about the same age as your late mother - they would have been first cousins.
My family (which means my father's family, into which my mother absorbed herself) always said that Bridget cut off all contact with her family in Ireland. I do not recall any mention being made of her sisters in England. Bridget was just a one-woman family and that was accepted unquestioningly. It is all very complicated and not for a public post. Apparently, RC will not let me post a private message until I have made a qualifying number of posts.
Re the Blitz: Bridget worked in a munitions factory (Cossars, I believe) during WW2. She was very nimble-fingered and was on the bomb assembly line. She and my mother lived in the Stroud Green area of London, in a flat in a house with a big cellar. During the heavy bombing of 1940/41, they sheltered in this cellar and Bridget spent the time crochet-ing at lightning speed - she kept her mind off things by keeping her fingers busy.
Have you checked out the O'Sullivan thread on British Genealogy and Family History Forum?
Finally, I will ask our mutual contact to pass on my email address That will make communication much easier.
Best wishes
Jill