1. "Butte, Montana: Ireland's Fifth Province"
Posted by kimberly on Oct-24th-02 at 9:09 PM

No wonder Bridget moved to Montana!

In a modern city of less than 40,000, more than a hundred years later you can still find hundreds of Irish surnames in the local phone book - about 100 Sullivan families, 43 listings for Sheas, and 32 O'Neills.

Members of 77 different families of Sullivans left Castletownbere in Cork for Butte, which explains why in 1908 there were 1,200 Sullivans in Butte.

http://www.butteamerica.com/birish.htm

And should anyone need a new place for vacation try this
1880`s Dude Ranch in Anaconda. I didn't know they still had them!
http://www.virtualcities.com/ons/mt/h/mth2101.htm

Last night I ran across an old LBQ article by George Quigley.  In it, he shows that various official documents, including Bridget's tombstone (which may or may not be an official document) show nine different birth dates for her.  That and the huge number of Sullivans living in the U. S. always make me wonder if the Bridget employed by the Bordens is the same Bridget Sullivan who's buried in Montana.  This doesn't even consider the fact that O'Sullivan is essentially the same name as Sullivan, adding even more to the list.

I started browsing for Bridgets a little while ago &
most of the Sullivans that came up were O`Sullivans. I
was looking for graveyards & ended up in Montana & thought
there might be something about her, but I still haven't
found her.

Edisto, did you notice the MaTH?