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Brady Family from Bunnanadden

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Mary Agnes Brady, born in Bunnanadden in December 1857 (dates vary) arrived in the USA in 1871 or 1872 (dates vary)

Mary A. married Thomas Madden from Canada in 1874, lived a few years in Cleveland, Ohio then settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

At some point, Mary A'smother Bridget Brady, who --according to a US census --was born in Ireland in 1840, moved in withMary A, Thomas and children in Pittsburgh.

Bridget Brady died in the US in1907. Her daughter, Mary Agnes Brady-Madden, died in the US in 1932.

I have very little about Mary A. and her mother before they came to the USA. I have not found their ship records. I don't know what Mary did for three years before marrying Thomas A. Madden or her father's name or her mother's maiden name.

Mary's death certificate, completed by her son, lists her father as Bernard Brady and her mother as Bridget Whalen. But it also lists her husband as James Madden. (?) The datesand home address on the death certificate line up, so we know it's the correct Mary A. Madden.

Other family records have Mary A's mother as Bridget Cullen and her father as Thomas Brady who was born in Sligo and died in 1891 (I do not know the sources for this information.)

Somewhere somebody researching Mary A. found the attached Baptism record --church unknown-- that shows Mary Agnes Brady scribbled in, as an afterthought, baptised Dec 10, 1857 (15 days prior to her stated date of birth.) )

The yellowed letter fragment (attached) says " Mrs. Mary Agnes Madden was born and baptised in the town of Buninadin, Couty Sligo, Ireland the year ///7by the Rev. James Henry..."

Do we know the church (Roman Catholic) where Rev. James Henry was a priest? What civil parish would this be?
I have posted this under Kilturra because it will not post without a civil parish, but I could be wrong. ( I hope the parish can be edited after this posts.)

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