Friday's Photo: Bridget "Delia" Murray, County Clare to Iowa

Bridget "Delia" Murray

Source: Bridget Delia Murray, photograph, n.d.; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of Mary Fahey, Iowa, 2000.

Bridget "Delia" Murray was a daughter of James Murray and Celia Linane (also seen as Cecelia Linnane) of County Clare, Ireland. [1] Bridget "Delia" Murray boarded the U.S.S. Etruria on 15 October 1899, in Queenstown, Ireland, and arrived in New York City on October 22nd. Delia's ticket was paid for by her sister, Mary Murray and she was going to stay with Mary in Dubuque, Iowa. [2] In 1900, Delia was working in Dubuque as a servant for the William Peabody family. [3]

Joseph F. Kingsley and Bridget "Delia" Murray

Source: Murray - Kingsley Wedding, photograph, 1908; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of Mary Fahey, Iowa, 2000.

Delia married Joseph F. Kingsley, a widower with three children, on 11 August 1908. [4] Children living in their household in 1910 were Samuel A., Eugene W., and Susie M. Kingsley; all children of Joseph and his first wife, Lillian Gear. [5] Delia and Joseph had one child, Cecelia Mary Kingsley. [6] Joseph, a retired streetcar conductor, died in 1938 after a fall from a ladder. [7] Delia died on 25 March 1970 and is buried in the Resurrection Catholic Cemetery in Dubuque.[8] 

Delia was an older sister of Susan Murray Quinn, my husband's grandmother. When Delia left Ireland, her youngest sister, Susan was three years old. Delia never returned to Ireland to see family but did see her sisters, Ellen Murray (Sister Columbkill), Sarah Murray Meehan, and Katherine "Kate" Murray McGing as they visited Delia in Iowa. [9]

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1. mkf74285, "Fahey Family Tree," public tree, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/119439030/person/322005198837/facts accessed 10 July 2021). Also, National Library of Ireland, "Catholic Parish Registers at the NLI", digital images, National Library of Ireland (https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634164#page/75/mode/1up :  accessed 15 June 2021), New Quay Parish (County Clare), Diocese of Galway, "Bapt  Oct 5 1854–Dec 30, 1880," page 75; digitized from NLI microfilm 02441 / 05.

    2. "New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9TH-4SSX-V?cc=1368704&wc=4X1L-QPD%3A1600492313 : 1 July 2021), Roll 88, vol 149-150, 22 Oct 1899-26 Oct 1899 > image 32 of 664; citing NARA microfilm publication T715 and M237 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

    3. 1900 U.S. Census, Dubuque County, Iowa, population schedule, Julian, ward 4,  enumeration district 108, page 6, dwelling 101, family 116, William H. Peabody household; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7602/images/4119847_00564?8: accessed 21 June 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication T623.

    4.“Wedded at St. Patrick's,” Dubuque Times Journal, 11 August 1908, p.3, col. 5; database and images, Newspapers.com (https://access.newspaperarchive.com/us/iowa/dubuque/dubuque-times-journal/1908/08-11/page-3/ : accessed 16 June 2021).

    5. 1910 U.S. Census, Dubuque, Iowa, population schedule, Dubuque, ward 4,  enumeration district 129, page 13A, dwelling 9, family  9, Joseph F. Kingsley household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7884/images/31111_4328297-00144? : accessed 8 June 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 402.  Also, Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/211813760/lillian-b.-kingsley: accessed 9 July 2021), memorial page for Lillian B. Gear Kingsley (unknown–4 Jun 1905), Find a Grave Memorial ID 211813760, citing Resurrection Catholic Cemetery, Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa, USA ; Maintained by daveat1910 (contributor 47196943).

    

    6.1920 U.S. Census, Dubuque, Iowa, population schedule, Dubuque, ward 4,  enumeration district 140, page 4B, dwelling 76, family 82, Joseph F. Kingsley household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6061/images/4300690_00530? : accessed 8 June 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 488.  

    7. “Dubuquer Dies in Ladder Fall,” Dubuque [Iowa] Telegraph Herald, 1 November 1938, p. 1; database and images, Newspapers.com (https://access.newspaperarchive.com/us/iowa/dubuque/dubuque-telegraph-herald/1938/11-01/ : accessed 16 June 2021).

    8 . Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/148363544/bridget-delia-kingsley : accessed 9 July 2021), memorial page for Bridget Delia “Delia” Murray Kingsley (15 Aug 1882–25 Mar 1970), Find a Grave Memorial ID 148363544, citing Resurrection Catholic Cemetery, Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa, USA; Maintained by Mr. Badger Hawkeye (contributor 46542485). 

    9. Email from Mary K. Fahey, (Iowa) to Diana B. Quinn, 4 June 2021; held in 2021 by Quinn (Virginia Beach, VA).