BRIDGET (LEARY) CONNELLY (1829–1921)
  • ​Born 14 Mar 1829 in Ireland to Cornelius Leary (    –    ) and Margaret Cronin (    –    )
               New York State Department of Health, death certificate no. 40507 (1921), Bridget Connolly [sic]; Vital Records Section, Albany.
  • Married Anthony Connelly (ca. 1829–1907)​ 27 Dec 1858 in St. Lawrence County, New York
              ​ St. Mary’s Catholic Church (Potsdam, New York), “Marriages 1855-1875, 1880-1881; Baptisms 1857-1875; Confirmations 1872-1914; Deaths 1879-1915,” p. 7 [penned], entry 68, Cannelly–Leary [sic] marriage (1858); FHL microfilm 1450732, item 2, digital images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 09 June 2018); citing St. Mary’s Rectory, Massena, New York.
  • Mother of the following children:
  1. Ann (Connelly) Burke (1859–1939)
  2. Hugh Connelly (1861–1908)
  3. Cornelius Clement Connelly (1864–1926)
  4. Anthony Connelly Jr (1869–1904)
  5. Mary Ellen (Connelly) Gilmore (1872–1950)
  • Lived in the Town of Colton, St. Lawrence County, New York from 1860–1910
               1860 U.S. census, Saint Lawrence County, New York, population schedule, Town of Colton, pp. 23–24 (penned), dwelling 189, family 199, Anthony Conoly [sic]; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 July 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 852.
               1870 U.S. census, Saint Lawrence County, New York, population schedule, Town of Colton, p. 10 (penned), dwelling 73, family 73, Anthony Conolly [sic]; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 22 June 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1097.
               1880 U.S. census, Saint Lawrence County, New York, population schedule, Town of Colton, enumeration district (ED) 188, p. 6 (penned), dwelling 57, family 57, A Conally [sic]; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 22 June 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 925.
               1900 U.S. census, Saint Lawrence County, New York, population schedule, Town of Colton, p. 118 (stamped), enumeration district (ED) 82, sheet 7-A (penned), dwelling 151, families 170–171, Connelly and Burk[sic]; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 June 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 1156.
​               1905 New York state census, Saint Lawrence County, population schedule, Town of Colton, election district 1, p. 11 (penned), lines 1–8, Anthony Conley [sic]; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 June 2014); citing state population census schedule; New York State Archives, Albany.
               1910 U.S. census, Saint Lawrence County, New York, population schedule, Town of Colton, enumeration district (ED) 117, sheet 11-B (penned), dwelling 263, family 264, Hermon Gillmour [sic]; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 02 November 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 1074.
  • ​​Lived in the Town of Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York from 1915–1921
               1915 New York state census, Saint Lawrence County, population schedule, Town of Potsdam, election district 7, p. 2 (penned), 60 Pierpoint [sic] Avenue, Herman Gilmore; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 02 November 2014); citing state population census schedule series A0275; New York State Archives, Albany.
               1920 U.S. census, Saint Lawrence County, New York, population schedule, Town of Potsdam, enumeration district (ED) 180, sheet 16-B (penned), 60 Pierrepont Avenue, dwelling 437, family 402, Hermon [sic] Gilmore; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 02 November 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 1260.
  • Died 15 Jul 1921 in the Town of Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York
               New York State Department of Health, Death Index, 1921: unpaginated [arranged alphabetically], no. 40507, Bridget Connolly [sic]; consulted as “New York, Death Index, 1852-1956,” database and digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 June 2018); citing Vital Records Section, Albany.
               “Dies on Day of Brother’s Funeral,” Courier and Freeman (Potsdam, New York), 20 July 1921, p. 2, col. 3; digital image, New York State Historic Newspapers Project (www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org : accessed 14 July 2013), Courier and freeman.
               “Mrs. Bridget Connolly,” Potsdam (New York) Herald-Recorder, 22 July 1921, p. 2, col. 2; digital image, New York State Historic Newspapers Project (www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org : accessed 29 October 2012), The Potsdam herald-recorder.
  • Buried in St. Patrick Cemetery, Town of Colton, St. Lawrence County, New York
​               St. Patrick Cemetery (Town of Colton, Saint Lawrence County, New York; 1/4 mile E of NY-58 on Wildwood Road; 44.554238N, -74.926768W), Connelly [family] marker [front]; personally read and photographed by R. J. Kin, 8 November 2013.