Individual Details
Mary Brigid RYAN
(24 Mar 1898 - 18 Nov 1950)
Sponsors at Mary's christening were Gerald Kearney and Clare O'Reilly.
Mary was educated at the Loreto Secondary School on Dublin's St. Stephen's Green. After leaving school, Mary went to England and joined the Post Office Section of the British Civil Service in the Brook Green/Kensington area of London.
Mary and her London-born future husband, Stephen Hussey, met at a local dance in west London. In comparision to his six-foot frame, five-foot-tall Mary was tiny. In 1921, about a year before their marriage, Stephen visited Ireland for the first time when Mary brought him to meet her family in Co. Carlow. After they married, Mary and Stephen lived at 214 Du Cane Road, East Acton, and later at 12 Ullswater Road (which Stephen designed and built) in Barnes in London.
Around 1948, after her eldest three daughters had moved to Ireland, Mary brought Brigie, the youngest, to Dublin to join her sisters. Mary's plan was to help her daughters settle in to the new home she and Stephen and just bought for them in Clonskeagh (named 'Ui Breasail' by Mary after the mythological island of Celtic folklore) after which she would return to London. However, while in Ireland she began to feel unwell and it was discovered she had cancer. Sadly, she never made it back to London, and died in Dublin in November 1950 aged only 52.
The cause of Mary's death was "carcinoma of colon (18 months)" and "metastasis of ovaries" (nine months)"
Mary was educated at the Loreto Secondary School on Dublin's St. Stephen's Green. After leaving school, Mary went to England and joined the Post Office Section of the British Civil Service in the Brook Green/Kensington area of London.
Mary and her London-born future husband, Stephen Hussey, met at a local dance in west London. In comparision to his six-foot frame, five-foot-tall Mary was tiny. In 1921, about a year before their marriage, Stephen visited Ireland for the first time when Mary brought him to meet her family in Co. Carlow. After they married, Mary and Stephen lived at 214 Du Cane Road, East Acton, and later at 12 Ullswater Road (which Stephen designed and built) in Barnes in London.
Around 1948, after her eldest three daughters had moved to Ireland, Mary brought Brigie, the youngest, to Dublin to join her sisters. Mary's plan was to help her daughters settle in to the new home she and Stephen and just bought for them in Clonskeagh (named 'Ui Breasail' by Mary after the mythological island of Celtic folklore) after which she would return to London. However, while in Ireland she began to feel unwell and it was discovered she had cancer. Sadly, she never made it back to London, and died in Dublin in November 1950 aged only 52.
The cause of Mary's death was "carcinoma of colon (18 months)" and "metastasis of ovaries" (nine months)"
Events
| Birth | 24 Mar 1898 | Garryhill, Co. Carlow | |||
| Christen | 27 Mar 1898 | Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow | |||
| Marriage | 28 Aug 1922 | Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow - Stephen Joseph HUSSEY | |||
| Death | 18 Nov 1950 | 'Ui Breasail', Roebuck Road, Clonskeagh, Co. Dublin | |||
| Burial | Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin |
Families
| Spouse | Stephen Joseph HUSSEY (1895 - 1978) |
| Child | Maureen Brigid HUSSEY (1924 - 1995) |
| Child | Sheila HUSSEY (1927 - 2003) |
| Child | Una HUSSEY (1928 - 1995) |
| Child | Brigid (Brigie) HUSSEY (1931 - 2021) |
| Father | Malachy RYAN (1850 - 1924) |
| Mother | Mary MURPHY (1857 - 1932) |
| Sibling | Loughlin RYAN (1888 - 1955) |
| Sibling | John RYAN (1890 - 1916) |
| Sibling | Bridget (Bridie) RYAN (Sr. Gertrude) (1892 - 1969) |
| Sibling | Thomas (Tom) Patrick RYAN (1894 - 1941) |
| Sibling | Patrick (Paddy) L. RYAN (1900 - 1973) |