Lookup , Bridget Martin

[cloke]

Looking for Bridget Martin Family parents were Thomas Martin and Bridget Inadda? .Born about 1830 in Galway
Cloke

[trustdatmyst]

I am related to a Bridget Martin born 1825 in Galway, who married Patrick Carey in Wisconsin after immigrating.   I've been having so much trouble tracking her Irish relatives down.   I hope this is her parents!   

I was just in Galway two years ago and did not have time to look at records, will be back again.

Thanks,

Lea

[hallmark]

RC Registers are online... https://registers.nli.ie/     but with no location   Which Parish?

[trustdatmyst]

It's a needle in the haystack basically.  I don't know.  She married Patrick Carey in Wisconsin in 1850.  I just found a possible mother - out of Doneskea Tipperary - so I assume her father's family were the ones in Galway.

[heywood]

Hello and welcome 

Do you have Patrick and Bridget in any records - census, marriage etc?
If so, is there any additional information?

Heywood

[trustdatmyst]

Yes I do - I've been working on Ancestry, and got info from my great aunt before she passed: Patrick Carey
1819–1905
BIRTH 16 FEB 1819 • Galway, Ireland
DEATH 22 APR 1905 • Freeborn, Freeborn, Minnesota, United States   and

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Bridget A. Martin
1825–1889
BIRTH 1825 • Galway, Ireland
DEATH 1889 • Albert Lea, Freeborn, Minnesota, US

I have a bit of Patrick's info going back, and Bridget was until today a dead end.  I have several Irish relatives that immigrated during the famine that are dead ends once you get to Ireland.  This was just the first one I looked at.

Lea

[heywood]

Thank you.
Are you sure re her death in 1889?

This looks like Patrick and Bridget in 1895, Minnesota

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQD6-MYQ

Bridget’s year of birth in censuses seems to be earlier than 1825.

I might be looking at the wrong person though.

[trustdatmyst]

Hi Heywood,

This could be, I'll have to look at the family records I have to see if it's given me alternate dates.  This may be why I haven't been able to find her family.  I also assumed they all died in famine,  but I'll look later today.

Thanks so much for your research, we'll see what we can find.
L