THE BRIDGET MARY LINE



Denis and Mary had five children, Bridget Mary (1836), Thomas (1838), Patrick (1840), Michael (1841) and Marie.

In 1866, their eldest child Bridget Mary migrated to South Australia, described in the Ship’s manifest “Charlotte Gladstone” x Plymouth 13 March 1866 arr. Adelaide SA 17 June 1866 as a Dairymaid, age 20. She subsequently married John Doube (born 1848 in Limerick in Ireland) at St Ignatius Church in Norwood in 1878 and they had a family of five children: Henry John (1879), Mary Anne (1881), Charles (1883), Joseph Ernest (1885), Mary Gertrude (1888) and an unnamed child who presumably died at birth.

Bridget Mary died in 1928, aged 90 and John died in 1939, aged 91.