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Bridget Fitzgerald

This entry is about Bridget Fitzgerald (Born about 1860–1861; death not recorded). For other family members with the same first and family name, see Bridget Fitzgerald (5 September 1864 – After 12 October 1914).

Born about 1860–1861; death not recorded

A County Kerry-born woman who married farmer John Fitzgerald at Ventry on 12 February 1889 and lived in the Caheratrant farming household.

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Bridget Fitzgerald, born in County Kerry about 1860–1861, married John Fitzgerald in 1889 and lived in the Caheratrant farming household.

Born at County Kerry, Ireland

Recorded as: Brigid Long

Birth: From our family tree - no record found yet

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Life

Bridget Fitzgerald was born in County Kerry about 1860–1861, although no baptism or civil birth record in this archive establishes an exact date. Her 1889 marriage record names her father as Patrick Fitzgerald, a farmer. Our family tree calls her "Brigid Long," but the civil record identifies her before and after marriage as Fitzgerald, so the Long surname is not accepted as established.

Bridget married John Fitzgerald on 12 February 1889 in the Roman Catholic Chapel of Ventry, in the Dingle registration district. The record describes her as a full-age spinster and John as a full-age bachelor and farmer of Caheratrant. It names their fathers as Patrick Fitzgerald and Maurice Fitzgerald, both farmers.

In 1901 Bridget was living at house 7 in Caheratrant. The census recorded her as a 40-year-old Roman Catholic, the head of household's "Daughter in Law," born in County Kerry and able to speak "Irish and English." It also said that she "Cannot read." By 1911 she was at house 5 in the same townland, listed as the farmer's "Wife." That schedule said "Read and write," recorded 22 years of marriage, and stated that all three of her children were living.

The three children identified in this archive are Patrick, John, and Mary Fitzgerald. Patrick's civil birth entry gives "Tenth November 1895, Cahirtrant" and names "Bridget Fitzgerald formerly Fitzgerald" as his mother and John Fitzgerald, farmer, as his father.

Bridget's death has not been found. Her exact birth, the unexplained Long surname in our family tree, and civil birth records for John and Mary remain unresolved.

How we know this: Her marriage and 1901–1911 household are well documented; her exact birth, death, and the surname Long are unresolved. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Family

Where they lived

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County Kerry, Ireland
Ireland
County Kerry, Ireland
Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland
Kildorrery, County Cork, Ireland
Caheratrant, Ventry, County Kerry, Ireland
Ventry, County Kerry, Ireland
Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland
County Cork, Ireland

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Timeline

1889

Life event

The civil index is headed “Marriage record for John Fitzgerald and Bridget Fitzgerald” and gives “Party 1 Name: John Fitzgerald”; “Party 2 Name: Bridget Fitzgerald”; “Date of Event: 12/02/1889”; “SR District/Reg Area: Dingle”. The image records “Roman Catholic Chapel of Ventry,” John as a full-age bachelor farmer of Caheratrant, father Maurice Fitzgerald, farmer, and Bridget Fitzgerald as a full-age spinster, father Patrick Fitzgerald, farmer. [1]

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12 February 1889

Married

Bridget Fitzgerald married John Fitzgerald on 12 February 1889 in Ventry, Dingle registration district. [1]

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1901

Residence

The 1901 census API reads: “firstname”:“Bridget”; “surname”:“Fitzgerald”; “age”:40; “relation_to_head”:“Daughter in Law”; “religion”:“R C”; “education”:“Cannot read”; “marriage_status”:“Married”; “birthplace”:“Co Kerry”; “language”:“Irish and English”; “townland”:“Caheratrant”; “house_number”:“7”. [4]

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1911

1911 census

Bridget lived in the Irish-speaking farming household at Caheratrant, first as “Daughter in Law” under widowed farmer Maurice’s roof and by 1911 as the farmer’s “Wife”. Across those ten years her entry changed from “Cannot read” to “Read and write,” while the later schedule recorded “children_born”:3 and “children_living”:3. [4]

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1911

Life event

The 1911 API reads: “firstname”:“Bridget”; “surname”:“Fitzgerald”; “age”:50; “relation_to_head”:“Wife”; “education”:“Read and write”; “marriage_years”:22; “children_born”:3; “children_living”:3; “birthplace”:“Co Kerry”; “language”:“Irish and English”; “townland”:“Caheratrant”; “house_number”:“5”. [6]

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1911

In the census at Caheratrant

Recorded aged 40 in 1901 and 50 in 1911 at Caheratrant, implying a birth about 1861. Irish ages in 1911 are often inflated because of the 1908 pension act, but hers moves by exactly ten years across the two returns, which is the pattern of a woman who knew her age.

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Original records

Civil marriage register, John Fitzgerald and Bridget Fitzgerald, 12 Feb 1889, Ventry
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Civil birth register, Patrick Fitzgerald, 10 Nov 1895, Cahirtrant
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What the records say

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