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Note: Bridget Lynch came from County Clare, Ireland in 1823 and married her fiance Thomas Patrick Mundy in NYC. Married by the Catholic Bishop of NY She was a devout catholic and regularly attended St.Patrick's Cathedral Bridget had a strong interest in politics and was a supporter of Tammany Hall.. Death: DC# 6640 NYC, NY Buried in Calvery Cemetery Her last residence listed as 260 Elizabeth St.,3rd floor of 1 family house,14th ward, NYC, NY. It is said " Bridget in her later years used to sit by stove and smoke a clay pipe. Newspaper Clipping, NYC, NY March 1-3,1888 "A RARE OLD LADY GONE" Sixty-five Years of Active Interest In Politics and Humanity Sixty-six years ago Patrick Munday,a lusty young Irishman,came to America, leaving his heart behind him in the keeping of Bridget Lynch. In his eyes,at least,she was the fairest maid in County Clare. In those days men were true to the girls they loved, and a year after he came here he sent over the passage money Bridget was waiting for. She took the next ship over and in 1823 she was married to the man of her choice in the front parlor of the house where Judge Clancy now lives, by the Bishop of New York. On Wednesday of this week she died of old age in the apartments of her daughter at No. 260 Elizabeth Street. She was ninety - one years old, but until within a month past she had full possesion of all her faculties and was in the habit of going alone to mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral. She was a devout Catholic, a devoted mother and a staunch Tammany Democrat. Nothing abated her interest in the church services or the election returns. Last November she sat up waiting till her grandson came in and announced that the Democrats had carried the day. Then she went to bed contented and happy. Thirty-odd years ago her son, ex-assemblyman Thomas J. Mundy, one of the best-known men-about-town of the last generation, who is still hale and hearty, ran for State Senator against Erastus Brooks. It was the time of the "Know - Nothing" party and Mundy was the anti - Know - Nothing candidate. He was known indeed, as Bishop Hughes's candidate, and there was no doubt that he polled the full vote of his party. The political complexion of New York, however, was different then what it is now, and Brooks was elected. Mrs. Mundy was sorely chagrinned but not cast down. She had taken no active part in the campaign - women didn't then - but she had watched and hoped, and the disappointment was keen. She had never been away from New York since her arrival, and all her children, of whom two only survived, were born in the centre of the city. The Fifth and Eighth Wards were home to her. She had been a widow for thirty years.
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