Bergine??

[Lisajb]

Would anyone be able to hazard a guess as to what is written after the oblique following Anna Maria Cahill's name?  She appears to have left the house of the Little Sisters of the Assumption in Paris, heading for New York.

I am wondering if it would be her religious name, or something else?

[MonicaL]

What was Anna Maria's birth date?

There is a Texan Naturalization Declaration for a Maria Cahill (Sister M. Flora) , a Sister of Charity . Her birth date is given as 21 October 1920 Co. Clare.

This Declaration is from 29 October 1940.

On another document, her father's name is given as John Cahill to help exclude/include her?

From the image above, does look like the word starts with Be...

Monica

[Lisajb]

What was Anna Maria's birth date?

There is a Texan Naturalization Declaration for a Maria Cahill (Sister M. Flora) , a Sister of Charity . Her birth date is given as 21 October 1920 Co. Clare.

This Declaration is from 29 October 1940.

On another document, her father's name is given as John Cahill to help exclude/include her?

From the image above, does look like the word starts with Be...

Monica

Mine was born 1889 in County Westmeath, so don’t think this one is her.

Thanks for looking
Lisa

[MonicaL]

Got the wrong one didn't I! Just found the shipping entry from which you posted.

Co-incidence on both being of the order of the Sisters of Charity for sure.

Monica

[MonicaL]

She is showing I think as Annie M Cahill on the 1920 census www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJ12-94P

Possible too for 1930 https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X46B-HZP

Monica

[Lisajb]

I have sent an email to the New York house, asking if there might be any records, or where would be the best place to enquire.

[Lisajb]

I thought Rootschatters would like an update.

I have been in touch with the Little Sisters of the Assumption, and have just received a lovely detailed reply from them.

This was indeed the lady I was looking for, she was my husbands grandmothers half sister. The reply has confirmed her birth date, and her parents, and details of her religious life. She was one of two sisters sent to New York to start a new house there.

The name she took on clothing was Sister Mary Benigna - the “Bergine” we puzzled over.

Sadly she died at the age of 37, in 1926.

[MonicaL]

Thanks for the update here, Lisa   

How kind of them to take the time to respond to you in the way they have with so much detail.

Sad her life ended so soon.

Monica