My ancestor, BRIDGET MAHER, was born on June 2, 1880, in the Parish of Freshford, Kilkenny. In 2003,The Kilkenny Archaeology Society did a search for me on "Bridget Maher" and I discovered that she had seven siblings that I knew nothing about prior to the search. The society forwarded me the birthdates of her seven siblings and the marriage date of her father (RICHARD MAHER) and her mother (CATHERINE FITZPATRICK) which was the 3rd of November 1861. The society did not know if anyone had migrated. Since searching Ancestry primarily, I have found a great deal of information about her parents that did migrate and several of the siblings that migrated as well. Most all of them settled in the Springfield Massachusetts or Western Massachusetts area.
Bridget Maher migrated to the United States around 1888. She married Herman Bartols in Springfield, MA on in 1912. She had one surviving child, my mother, Mona Catherine Bartols. Bridget died on February 21st, 1948 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, USA
I am hoping to find Catherine Fitzpatrick's parents. Catherine would have been born around 1840 in Ireland and died in Springfield, MA in 1914. Her father may have been William Fitzpatrick.
I would also like to find the parents of Richard Maher who was born around 1837 in Ireland and died in Springfield, MA in 1902.
Associated names with my ancestors who were birth sponsors are: Thomas Cahill & Honor Shortall; James Hall and Mary Brennan; John Cormich and Elizabeth Cormick; John Hall and Johanna Hall; Edmund Hickey and Ellen Hall; Martin Travers and Bridget Clifford; and John Crosby and Mary Laharte (Bridget's birth sponsors). This would have been in the parrishes of Freshford and Ballylarkin.
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| Date of Birth | 2nd Jun 1880 | |
| Date of Death | 21st Feb 1948 | |
| Place of Death | Springfield, MA 1948 | |
