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[quote=Anonymous]PP Bridget’s mom here and what have I started?

My great grandmother left Ireland at 16 and came to the U.S. in 1905. She left her parents and youngest sibling behind and although she never saw any of them ever again, she faithfully wired money back to them for the balance of her working life.

And, she was a domestic, a maid. Why? Because that was the ONLY job available for a single, Irish-Catholic teenager with a fifth grade education. She married an older Irish immigrant who was employed as a chauffeur, also one of the few jobs available for Irish men of the era with limited education.

Yes, I heard the stories that Bridget was so common particularly among domestics that it became a shorthand or nickname of sorts, “have you hired a Bridget?” and in early movies, the maid character was called Bridget. Guarantee that no teenager or even young adult knows (or cares) about any of this.

But Catholics follow naming traditions and choose at least one saint’s name at baptism and or at confirmation. St. Brigid of Ireland (Kildare) is a special way to memorialize my GGMo.
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