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Bridget's original birth record (in Latin). You may have to scroll a bit to find it:
http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls0 ... 3/mode/1up

Bridget's arrival at Castle Garden, New York, May 24, 1886
http://castlegarden.org/quick_search_de ... id=2201358

Other Sullivans who arrived on the same passage:
http://castlegarden.org/search_02.php?m ... submit.y=0

Bridget lived with her cousin on Division St., Fall River for a brief time after the murders. Her cousin may have been Bridget Harrington, wife of Patrick. Patrick Harrington & Bridget Leary were married in Fall River, MA in Sept. 1891. Her parents were John & Margaret Leary.

I know this has been posted before, but I still find it intriguing.
The Barnstable Patriot, May 20, 1895, pg. 2: "Bridget Sullivan, the witness in the Lizzie Borden trial, sailed for Ireland on the Lucania Saturday."

According to 1900 U.S. census, a Bridget Sullivan, b. Feb. 1868, imm. 1885, worked as a cook for Richard T. Pearce, mngr. of a smelting & mining co. in Silver Bow, Montana. I know other sources have claimed that Bridget worked for George B. Winston in Anacondo for many years. However, the Bridget who worked for Winston in 1910 gave a birth year of 1883 and an immigration year of 1905. That's a 20 year birth discrepancy. Also most domestic servants did not remain in the work force once they married, and our Bridget had married in 1905. I believe the Bridget Sullivan employed by Richard T. Pearce is the correct Bridget.

Ah, shoot, I can't read Latin! Irish can you translate, what Bridget's original birth record says?

hi Twins!

I'm afraid I'm not very adept at Latin myself (despite being Catholic..I missed those Latin classes!)

As best as I can decipher, I believe it reads:

March 17,1864 (believe this is the baptismal date, not actual birth date):
Bridget, (Bridgidda) baptized, daughter of Eugene Sullivan and (Margarita) Margaret Leary of (Billerough?). Sponsors/Godparents: (Dionysius) Denis Sullivan and (Catharina) Catherine Leary.

Thank you Irish, for deciphering Bridget's birth record as best you can. I appreciate it.

Woo, i actually can read Latin yet all those clerical abbreviations left me stumped

Thank you Irish Lass, you're doing some real good work. I'd just been trailing round the Forum in despair over elusive Bridget. You seem to have nailed her at last

Oh i do apologise, the images are working now...
So the most significant sums are the $1,000 apiece? to her neice Mary Sullivan and to Julia O'Donnell, tho the latter gets an unspecified residue also.... I think in sterling and am ignorant about the worth of the $ in 1946... Is all this quite a modest estate, at the time?

Many thanks for any reply,

Wendy

Interested, the following links may help you obtain the answers you are seeking in regards to what a money amount in 1948, would be today.

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