Bridget “Biddy” Cunningham

Birth Name Bridget “Biddy” Cunningham
Gender female
Age at Death unknown

Notes

General

There is a note on Nan's Gallagher's handwritten pedigree chart that says "Bridget m. Sloan (Ellen O'Leary's parents)." In other words that Bridget Cunningham married a man named Sloan and that they had a daughter named Ellen Sloan who married a man named O'Leary.

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth about 1838 County Down, Ireland   1
Census 1901 Glenloughan Townland, Kilkeel Civil Parish, County Down, Ireland   1
Note

https://nationalarchives.ie/collections/search-the-census/census-record/#census_year=1901&surname__icontains=sloan&county=Down&townland__icontains=glenloughan&limit=30&id=5029963
Bridget Sloane, head, 73, widow, farmer
Peter Sloane, son, 33, farmer, married
Anne Sloane, daughter in law, married, 23

Census 1911 Ballycardle Townland, Kilkeel Civil Parish, County Down, Ireland   2a
Note

1911 Census Ballyardel [sic]
House No 21, DED Mourne Park
John Kinney, 51
Bridget Kinney, 40, married 16 years, 8 children, 8 alive
8 children including Sarah Ellen, age 15
Bridget Sloan, 75, mother in law, seamstress, widow, 12 children, 8 living, born in Co Down.

https://nationalarchives.ie/

Death        

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father James Cunninghambetween 1883 and 1885
Mother Catherine Devine
         Bridget “Biddy” Cunningham about 1838
    Brother     Seven Boys Cunningham
    Sister     Ann Cunningham from 1843 to 1845 September 28, 1925
    Brother     James Cunningham after 1845
    Brother     Thomas Cunningham from 1846 to 1851 February 12, 1922

Families

Family of James Sloan and Bridget “Biddy” Cunningham
Married Husband James Sloan ( b. about 1822 d. April 9, 1887 )
 
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage May 20, 1846 Kilkeel Civil Parish, County Down, Ireland   3a
Note

from Ros Davies' County Down website:
Miss Bridget (Biddy) CUNNINGHAM .Kilkeel married James Sloan 20 May 1846 at the Catholic church; mother of Bridget b. 1868 & Sarah b. 1871 PR; CR

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/SURNAMES/C/CunninghamAJ.htm

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and from the Catholic parish register
Kilkeel
Diocese of Down and Connor | County of Down
Marriages
May 20, [1846]
James Sloan Biddy Cunningham
[witnesses:] Charles Sloan, Biddy Clark

Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
William Sloanabout July 1849
James Sloanabout 1851before January 8, 1854
James Sloanabout 1854
Henry Sloanabout 1855
Ann Ellen SloanMay 4, 1861July 15, 1939
Catherine Sloan1863
Peter Sloan1865
Bridget SloanSeptember 27, 1868
Sarah SloanMarch 8, 1871

Source References

  1. 1901 Census of Ireland
  2. 1911 Census of Ireland
      • Page: house 17, Ballycardel [sic], ED Mourne Park, Kilkeel
  3. Kilkeel Parish Registers
      • Page: Sloan-Cunningham, May 20, 1846