Ellen Pigott
Ellen Pigott.
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Ellen Pigott,
born 1845, bapt 3 Apr 1845,
[Pat Lavelle] writes:
"As soon as Grandmother was grown up
she had to work for her living
and bring some money into the home;
so at 19 she was working in Harris' bakery."
[Henry St, Limerick].
"The Harris' were rich, Catholics, and at that time they
lived in Hartstonge House
where years later, when the wheel of fortune turned,
Grandmother herself came to live in affluence and
happiness.
It was while she was working in the bakery offices that
Grandfather turned up and fell in love with her."
Stephen writes to her 1898 recalling:
"our married life
from the first night in the Queens"
[unidentified]
"up to the present.",
a religious blessing card survives to her,
from
Margaret O'Mara (Stephen's sister, age 16),
15 Feb 1865,
living Limerick at mar,
mar 5th Feb 1867, S.S. Peter and Paul, Patrick St, Cork
[GROI]
to
Stephen O'Mara and had issue.
Ellen Pigott with her children, 1890.
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Ellen Pigott, c.1910.
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