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From: Paet Burcham <>
Subject: Fitzgerald family.
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 19:45:29 -0500

You might want to check out St. Brigit's for your Patrick Fitzgerald
family. I think Scovill Avenue(still called by this name now) is near
East 22nd. (what it is now called) and Charity Hospital. The diocese
might have some record of Patrick's birth records.

Paet....

On Fri, 01 Nov 2002 15:59:19 -0500 "James O'Donnell"
<> writes:
> There was indeed a St. Bridget's Church back around 1900. It was at
> Perry St near Scoviill according to the 1902 Catholic Directory of
> which
> I have a copy.
>
> Jim
>
> wrote:
>
> >Carolyn~
> > Good point! I considered a "Beach Book". However, I found
> much of the
> >research done was quite accurate. In fact, I had thought at first
> that St.
> >Bridget was used in place of St. Malachi. The wonderful Lonny
> McCauley told
> >me that there was a St. Bridget's in the early days. Just not
> where the book
> >places it. She had found this in her research.
> > In Ireland, families are very curious about the lives of
> family members
> >who emigrated in those long ago times. What was their life like,
> better or
> >worse, different or similar? Was there any type of persecution for
> their
> >religion. They (at least our families in Mayo and Wexford) were
> not aware of
> >"The Irish Need Not Apply" signs. The fact that their family
> members found
> >their ways to Cleveland and not NYC, Boston or Philli, meant that
> they had
> >little information on the Ohio and in our case, Pittsburgh also,
> Irish
> >communities. This novel gave them a peak into the status of the
> post famine
> >emigrant. I sent over two copies which were being passed around
> the Westport
> >area and on Achill.
> >
> >Mary Ellen Chambers
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>

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