Bridget raised her 2 daughters alone following the 1890 death of her husband Luke Flynn.
Bridget then raised her grandson Howard and granddaughters Loretta & Catherine alone, following the deaths of her son-in-law Howard Brown and her daughter Sarah Ann, after prevailing in a custody hearing brought against her by 2 sisters of Howard Brown, Mary Isabelle and Harriet.
She supported herself, her daughters, and then her grandchildren by doing other peoples' laundry and by washing the windows of businesses in Philadelphia, Pa.
On 3 U.S. censuses, Bridget reported her age such as to calculate to a different year of birth. Her immigration record suggests 1866 or 1867. All her life she claimed to have been born "the year Lincoln was shot", so the January of 1866 date she provided for the 1900 census is probably the closest to the truth. Thanks to her daughter Loretta, the year 1865 appears on her headstone.
Bridget then raised her grandson Howard and granddaughters Loretta & Catherine alone, following the deaths of her son-in-law Howard Brown and her daughter Sarah Ann, after prevailing in a custody hearing brought against her by 2 sisters of Howard Brown, Mary Isabelle and Harriet.
She supported herself, her daughters, and then her grandchildren by doing other peoples' laundry and by washing the windows of businesses in Philadelphia, Pa.
On 3 U.S. censuses, Bridget reported her age such as to calculate to a different year of birth. Her immigration record suggests 1866 or 1867. All her life she claimed to have been born "the year Lincoln was shot", so the January of 1866 date she provided for the 1900 census is probably the closest to the truth. Thanks to her daughter Loretta, the year 1865 appears on her headstone.
Bridget raised her 2 daughters alone following the 1890 death of her husband Luke Flynn.
Bridget then raised her grandson Howard and granddaughters Loretta & Catherine alone, following the deaths of her son-in-law Howard Brown and her daughter Sarah Ann, after prevailing in a custody hearing brought against her by 2 sisters of Howard Brown, Mary Isabelle and Harriet.
She supported herself, her daughters, and then her grandchildren by doing other peoples' laundry and by washing the windows of businesses in Philadelphia, Pa.
On 3 U.S. censuses, Bridget reported her age such as to calculate to a different year of birth. Her immigration record suggests 1866 or 1867. All her life she claimed to have been born "the year Lincoln was shot", so the January of 1866 date she provided for the 1900 census is probably the closest to the truth. Thanks to her daughter Loretta, the year 1865 appears on her headstone.
Bridget then raised her grandson Howard and granddaughters Loretta & Catherine alone, following the deaths of her son-in-law Howard Brown and her daughter Sarah Ann, after prevailing in a custody hearing brought against her by 2 sisters of Howard Brown, Mary Isabelle and Harriet.
She supported herself, her daughters, and then her grandchildren by doing other peoples' laundry and by washing the windows of businesses in Philadelphia, Pa.
On 3 U.S. censuses, Bridget reported her age such as to calculate to a different year of birth. Her immigration record suggests 1866 or 1867. All her life she claimed to have been born "the year Lincoln was shot", so the January of 1866 date she provided for the 1900 census is probably the closest to the truth. Thanks to her daughter Loretta, the year 1865 appears on her headstone.
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