As I discussed in my last post, my great grandmother Bridget Elizabeth Chambers was born in Islandeady, County Mayo, Ireland. She was the youngest of 9 children.
Her older sister Ann Chambers was born in 1864 in Islandeady and married Hugh Feehan. Ann and Hugh lived in Rossow, County Mayo. Rossow is west of Islandeady and very close to the coast. The Feehans had 8 children: Maria, Bridget, Thomas, Jack, Patrick, Nora, Hugh and Elly. Ann and Hugh lived in Ireland their entire lives and their grandson Hugh now lives in the old family home in Rossow. However, Ann and Hugh did manage to help some of their children and some of James Chamber’s children immigrate to Chicago.
Another sister Barbara was born in 1866 but died as a baby in 1867. A year after Barbara’s death, James Chambers was born in 1868 in Islandeady. James married Mary Malley and they had 3 children: Thomas, Maria and Kate. Bridget’s (and James’) mother Ann Kilroy Chambers lived with James and Mary after the death of her husband Thomas Chambers in 1889. James and Mary, though, died in the early 1900’s. Ann Kilroy Chambers then immigrated to the US to live with her daughter Bridget in 1905.
Bridget’s younger sister Nora was born in 1873 and married Patrick Murray in Ireland. Nora and Patrick immigrated to Chicago in 1906 and had a son named Thomas. As a child, I remember Tommy Murray visiting my Grandpa Charlie (who was his cousin). Tommy wore white pants to church and my Dad and Grandpa used to tease him that he was the “ice cream man”. Once I started researching Tommy, I found out that he was a driver for a laundry. No wonder he had a lot of very clean white pants!
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