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Bridgid Towey (b. Aug 1834, d. 1924)
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According to the pamphlet "A Halloran Family History", authored by Lavonne Halloran Reller / Faye Halloran Owen, published 8/16/1992, p. 63 & 64.
Brigid (Towey) Ruddy was born in 1834 in the area of Ballaghadereen, parish of Kilcaleman, barony of Costello, County Mayo.Her family owned some land there.
1870 Census shows her as 35 years old and born in Ireland.
1900 Census shows her living on Main Street of Chatfield in Elmira Township, 65 years old, born in August and what looks like 1834.She is widowed.She had 9 children and 8 are still living.She was born in Ireland as were her parents.She immigrated to the U.S. in 1851 and has been in the U.S. for 49 years.
1920 Census shows her in Rochester living at 625 1st Street S.W., with her daughter Mary and son-in-law Joseph F. Ellis.She is 86 years old and immigrated in 1840.
Morris and Brigid had farming land.In 1865 they owned the west half of the northwest quarter of section 33 in Orion Township, but lived near Pleasant Grove.They had nine children: eight girls and their first born, Peter, who died in infancy.Alice and Jo Manahan told the story about Brigid and their grandmother, Margaret Towey Tuohy: "It was Margaret's first child, but she knew she was in labor.She sent Grandpa to get Aunt Brigid Ruddy, who lived near Pleasant Grove, 10 to 12 miles away.He started out, even though the oxen had been working hard in the fields all day.As he passed a certain pasture, he saw another pair of oxen.Feeling sorry for his own, he traded and continued on to the Ruddys.Aunt Brigid hurriedly fixed supper for Uncle Morris, arranged to have a neighbor milk the cow, bundled up her two little girls and started back with Grandpa.And in due time, Uncle Will Tuohy was born, on July 4, 1862.A few days later, word came that a priest was in Chatfield.Aunt Brigid walked to the field to tell grandfather, then walked a mile to Uncle John Manahan's to leave her two little girls and then she and grandfather carried the baby to town, two miles away, had him baptized, then carried him back home.After that Brigid walked over to Manahans to get her girls.Quite a day!Sometime after Morris Ruddy died in 1893, Brigid moved to Chatfield.She lived at 370 Main.She had a rather high profile in town and there are still people there who remember her eccentricities.She had a thick Irish brogue, a sharp tongue and liked to have her curtains drawn, even in the daytime, keeping her house so dark she had to have a light on.She was a hypochondriac, though she protested, "I ain't never had no 'gorter'!"Her daughter, Elizabeth, had the goiter.
More About Bridgid Towey:
Burial Location: Sect ??, Row ??, Lot ??, Calvary Cemetery, Chatfield, Fillmore, Minnesota.6798, 6799
Census 1: 27 Jun 1870, Orion Township, Olmsted, Minnesota.6800, 6801
Census 2: 02 Jun 1900, Elmira Township, Olmsted, Minnesota.6802, 6803
Census 3: 12 Jan 1920, Rochester, Olmsted, Minnesota.6804, 6805
Immigration: 18516805
More About Bridgid Towey and Morris Ruddy:
Marriage: Abt. 18606805
Marriage Notes for Bridgid Towey and Morris Ruddy:
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According to the pamphlet "A Halloran Family History", authored by Lavonne Halloran Reller / Faye Halloran Owen, published 8/16/1992, p. 63.
The story goes that Brigid Towey and Morris Ruddy were married about 1860, either on the east coast of America or on board the ship coming over.
Children of Bridgid Towey and Morris Ruddy are:
- Peter Ruddy.
- Ann Ruddy, b. Abt. 18616805.
- Bridget Ruddy, b. Abt. 18616805.
- +Mary Ruddy, b. 21 Jan 1863, Chatfield, Fillmore, Minnesota6806, 6807, 6808, d. 23 Oct 1942, Home, Rochester, Olmsted, Minnesota6809, 6810, 6811, 6812.
- Agnes Ruddy, b. Abt. 18656812.
- Margaret Ruddy, b. Abt. 18676812, d. 19496812.
- Bridget Jr. Ruddy, b. Abt. 18696812.
- +Ellen Ruddy, b. 18726812.
- +Elizabeth Mary Ruddy, b. 22 Dec 1874, Chatfield, Fillmore, Minnesota6813, 6814, 6815, d. 02 Dec 1918, Owatonna Hotel, Owatonna, Steele, Minnesota6816, 6817, 6818.
- Theresa Ruddy, b. 18776818, d. 19606819, 6820.