Bridget (Kilduff) Phillips
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Bridget (Kilduff) Phillips (abt. 1852 - 1928)

Bridget Phillips formerly Kilduff
Born about in PAmap
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 75 in Hoboken, NJmap
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Biography

Bridget Kilduff/Killduff was born on 13 November 1852 in Pennsylvania to Patrick Killduff and Mary Clark, as per her death certificate.

By 1872, Bridget had met and married George Phillips. They may have been living in Maryland at that time.

Bridget and her husband George raised a large family. They had at least two children who died before reaching school age.

Children seemed to have been Bridget's life. Until 1920, the last census taken before she died in 1928, she still had one of her children with her, her son Harry F. She was also keeping her grandchildren by her oldest son, John, who, along with his wife, died within the first 6 years of the 1900s.

Bridget is said to have been a woman of great faith. She died on All Soul's Day, 1 November, 1928. which she surely must have loved. Her death certificate states she died about 6 am that day, and her daughter Margaret Phillips Joye was the informant. She was buried with several family members in Old St. Raymond Cemetery, Bronx, NY.

My father says that his own dad, John L. Phillips, spoke very highly of Bridget at all times.


Sources

  • my father, John L. Phillips, via phone conversations, 2009-2013

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~duff/WPADuff.pdf

    • The name Kilduff may have been a more common name in County Sligo, Cavan and Galway, according to the above resource.
    • variants to the spelling include: Kilduffe, Killduff, Gilduff and Gildoff.

with thanks to Bronx Cop for the establishment of the original memorial: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=phillips&GSfn=bridget&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1928&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=89613446&df=all&

United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWFD-3PL : accessed 28 April 2015), Bridget Phillips in household of Geo Phillips, Upper Tyrone, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district 59, sheet 543D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1130; FHL microfilm 1,255,130,

    • The above census is the last known census in which her father in law, John Phillips, appeared.

United States Census, 1900," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9NS-M1F : accessed 28 April 2015), Bridget Phillips in household of George Phillips, Montville Township, Morris, New Jersey, United States; citing sheet 18A, family 379, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,988

    • Montville, NJ, is near Rockaway, New Jersey, where some mines were located. Her husband, George, may have been working there at the time.

New York, State Census, 1905, index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SPFK-96K : accessed 28 April 2015), Bridget Phillips in household of Thos Drake, Manhattan, A.D. 23, E.D. 37, New York, New York; citing p. , line , county offices, New York.; FHL microfilm

    • The family lived in the Washington Heights section of NYC at the time. Washington Heights was near some mines.

United States Census, 1910," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M5HK-RX8 : accessed 28 April 2015), Bridget Philips, Philipstown, Putnam, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 118, sheet 7B, family 107, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,375,063

    • Bridget is believed to have moved here after her husband's death to be near her daughter, Margaret, who was living in Philipstown at the time.

New Jersey, State Census, 1915", index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV97-MN2H : accessed 28 April 2015), Bridget Phillips, 1915

    • Who is Mary Dugan? Answer: Mary Dugan was her children's neighbor. In 1915, Mary Dugan lived at #30 Hackensack Ave, along with Bridget's daughter Margaret Phillips Joye and children, and son George, his wife Bridget and their children George, John, Agnes and Alice.

United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4TQ-TFR : accessed 28 April 2015), Bridget Phillips, Weehawken Ward 1, Hudson, New Jersey, United States; citing sheet 8B, family 161, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,050

    • This is the last census in which Bridget appears, as she died in 1928.

This could possibly be Bridget in an 1870 census. This is based on the fact that the birthplace for daughter Elizabeth Phillips Curtin is given as "Comberland, MD" ( Cumberland County, MD), which borders on Somerset County, where the Bridget Kilduff in this census is living with her family.

United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ2D-DHG : 12 April 2016), Bridgett Killdeff in household of Patrick Killdeff, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 20, family 132, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,951

This is another census; this is a different Kilduff family: United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZPP-TTL : 12 April 2016), John Killduff, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 19, family 155, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,863.





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