I recently found some new information about my Great Great Grandmother, Bridget Crimmins Sullivan Keaveney. One of my first posts was written about her, if you don't remember, I'll give you the Reader's Digest version: She was born in Ireland, in about 1846, and came to the US, during the US Civil War. On 5 Oct 1865 she married a fellow Irish immigrant in Jersey City, his name is Dennis Sullivan. In about 1867 she gives birth to my great grandmother, Annie Sullivan (who will marry my great grandfather, William Bergen in 1887). Dennis dies 8 Oct 1867, just two years after their wedding. He is buried in Holy Name Cemetery in Jersey City.
Sometime between October 1867 and 1871, Bridget marries a man named Thomas Keaveney, another Irish immigrant. They will have seven children, four of them will live to adulthood, two will die within days of being born, and one, Catherine Bridget, will die at age 11 in 1884. 1884 is a bad year for Thomas Keaveney, he will bury two children and his wife that year. Bridget gives birth to a son George and Bridget dies from an infection within a few days. George is baptized and dies within another week of his mother.
How do you move on after that. It is amazing how resilient these folks were. Thomas lives almost 20 years longer, and is buried 18 Feb 1903 in Holy Name Cemetery, in Jersey City.
Although I think this is all interesting, it is not the reason for this new post. Their daughter Jane is the reason for the post. I was recently on familysearch.org and I entered Bridget Crimmins in the search field. This is what I found:
Yup, another child born to Bridget and Thomas Keaveney on 27 Jun 1879, in Jersey City. They named her Jane, and she was baptized on 13 Jul 1879 in St Michael's Church. This is the only record that I find of her, and I am assuming that she dies shortly after her birth. She does not appear in the 1880 census. I will have to check the NJ State Archives for her death next time I go. But I think it is safe to assume that she met the same fate that half of the Keaveney children.
I do however, see why I never found her before. The last name of Keaveney is butchered once again. This time, we see it spelled as Keareney. They turned the "v"into an "r", probably a common error, when written in longhand.
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