Bridget Cawley Walsh, 1901 Irish Census

In the 1901 Irish Census, Bridget Cawley Walsh is listed as a widow. It is not known when her husband, John Walsh, died. His date of death is assumed to be sometime after 1881, the birth year of their youngest daughter, Ellen (1881-1941), and before this 1901 Census.

The census page is from Knockahoney, Banada, County Sligo. Note that Bridget is unable to write and signs the census sheet with an "X."

At the time of the census, three children were still at home, John, James and Onney. I am not sure who "Onney" is, perhaps is should be Anney, but Anney Walsh would be 33 or so in 1901.

In addition, on the day of the census there is a visitor, Martin Maye. I don't know who he is, perhaps a nephew or grandson.

By 1911, only the son, James, is living with his mother Bridget Walsh. When I was in Ireland in 2011, a second cousin, Patrick O'Hara, told me that James, who was called Jim Sean i.e., Jim son of Sean/John, lived on the Walsh property until his death and never married.

Source: The National Archives of Ireland. 1901 Irish Census, Townland: Knockahoney, ED: Banada, County Sligo, Number on Form B: 3.