VALLELY, Bridget (DNA Link) 3 4 5
- Baptised: 26 February 1824, Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ireland 7
- Marriage (1): O'BRIEN, George on 14 February 1851 in St Mary's RC Chapel, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland 1 2
- Died: 18 April 1881 at 10.30 am, 5 Bell Street, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Cause of her death was anasarca.
Other names for Bridget were BALLELY, Bridget,8 O.BRIAN, Bridget,9 O'BRIEN, Bridget, VALELY, Brigid,7 VALLALY, Bridget and VALLAY, Bridget.
General Notes:
"Church Baptism Record
Name: Brigid Valely
Date of Birth:
Date of Baptism: 26-Feb-1824
Address: Glebe
Parish/District: DUNGANNON
Gender: Unknown
County TYRONE
Father: Charles Valely
Mother: Sara Corrigan
Occupation:
Sponsor 1 /Informant 1: Ann
© Copyright Irish World Heritage Centre (Tyrone + Fermanagh)"
from www.rootsireland.ie
In the Church Baptism Record (see above) transcribed and made available by the Irish Family History Foundation it was recorded that Brigid Valely was baptised in Dungannon RC parish, County Tyrone, Ireland, on 26 February 1824. Her parents were Charles Valely and Sara Corrigan. The address for the child and family was Glebe. The sponsor was 'Ann'. No other information was provided.
On 11 July 1847 a 'Bridget Valleley' was one of the witnesses at the marriage of James Conran and Ann McLoskey at St Margaret's RC Chapel Airdrie. The celebrant was Father Alex Smith and the second witness was John Ellet or Eliot. A note in the register recorded that the couple were resident at Chapelhall.
The 1851 census for Bothwell parish recorded Sarah Vallily, a widow, aged 60 years, living at Whitegree, Holytown, with nine others:
Dennis Vallily, son, 33; Charles Vallily, son, 26; Thomas Vallily, son, 22; Thomas Vallily, grandson, 8; George Obrian, son in law, 23; Bridget Obrian, daughter, 26; John Mckee, nephew, 33; Daniel Mckee, nephew, 26; Hugh Lennon, lodger, 26. All were born in Ireland except George who was recorded as born in Glasgow. The men were coal miners.
In 1855 Bridget's age was recorded in the birth certificate of her son Dennis as 28 years. Her birthplace was noted too as being County Tyrone, Ireland. Dennis was her third child.
In 1861 Bridget was recorded by the 1861 census living as a married woman and mother at 103 Stirling Street, Airdrie. She worked as a 'grocer's shopwoman', and cared for her four children aged from 7 years to 2 months. She had been born in Ireland. At home she had the assistance of a domestic servant called Catherine Campbell, an unmarried woman of 40 years of age who had been born in Ireland. Bridget and her husband lived next to Bridget's brother, Charles, and his wife Elisabeth Vallely. Both Bridget and Charles were recorded as aged 33 years.
Bridget, and some of her family, were recorded by the 1881 census. They were living at Bell Street, Airdrie, in the parish of New Monkland. Bridget O'Brien was a widow and the head of the household, which consisted of her son in law, three daughters, and a son. Bridget had been born in Ireland.
In 1881 Bridget died. Her death certificate recorded her as the 'widow of George O'Brien coal miner' and recorded her age as 52 years. Both of her parents were dead by then. 7 8 9 10 11
Research Notes:
ANASARCA
is 'a dropsical affection of the subcutaneous cellular tissue of a limb or other large surface of the body, producing a very puffed appearance of the flesh'.
from The Oxford English Dictionary
Medical Notes:
Hugh Arthur MD certified the cause of death.
Bridget's son Michael O'Brien, who had been present where her death occurred, gave notice of his mother's death before Wm. Whyte, registrar, at Airdrie on 19 April 1881.
Bridget married George O'BRIEN, son of Michael O'BRIEN and Mary McCULLOCH, on 14 February 1851 in St Mary's RC Chapel, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland.1 2 (George O'BRIEN was born in 1827 in Lanarkshire or Woodside, Renfrewshire, Scotland 9 and died 1 July 1876 at 5.10 am in 75 Bell Street, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland.). The cause of his death was anasarca and colliery phtisis pulmonalis.
Marriage Notes:
The IGI records the proclamation of banns as 26 January 1851 in Bothwell parish.
St Mary's Hamilton RC Church records recorded the marriage between
George O'Brien and Bridget Vallely in the hand of, and above the signature of, the priest who married the couple, Father Michael Condon:
'George O'Brien and Bridget Vallely both of Whitegreen after due proclamations were married by me in presence of James Vallely and Margaret Mullany,
Michael Condon' 2
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