Philip & Rose Gaffney Fitzpatrick
Born in Ireland in December 1832, Rose GAFFNEY was the daugher of John GAFFNEY and Margaret GALLIGAN GAFFNEY. She was 19 years old when she boarded the Fidelia in Liverpool, England and arrived in New York on 8 Jan 1851. Philip FITZPATRICK also arrived in New York in 1851. Philip, the son of Philip and Bridget MCGANON FITZPATRICK, left from Liverpool on the Guy Mannering and arrived in New York on 3 March. He was 24 years old.
Philip and Rose married in Canton, Massachusetts on 30 July 1853. In 1860, they were living in Norfolk, Massachusetts with their daughter Mary and 6 other Irish immigrants. Later, they moved to Worcester where Philip worked in a Rolling Mill, a factory where metal is processed by being rolled into sheets or bars of the desired shape and size.
Rose and Philip's first child was born in 1854 but did not survive. They had 3 other children:
- Baby Girl b: 1854 d: 1854
- Mary A b: 1859 d: 1929
- Philip b: 1864 d: ?
- Catherine b: 1866 d: ?
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Philip died at age 60 from Bright's Disease. Bright's disease is a historical classification of kidney diseases that would be described in modern medicine as acute or chronic nephritis. After Philip's death on 3 Nov 1890, Rose moved in with her daughter and son-in-law, Mary and Lawrence O’CONNOR at 127 Apricot St. Rose died 11 Aug 1907 of old age/senile dementia.
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