June 8, 2007:

Hi Al - I am wondering, if you get a minute, can you check for Bridget Ryan.  
She died in Sept 17, 1899 and is buried at South Gloucester.  She is the mother 
of Mary Ryan who married John Foran.  A photocopy of the following newspaper 
article is in papers I have but the newpaper is not referenced.  I suspect it 
might have come from that Old Timers section of the Ottawa Journal I told you 
about that was written in the 1930s.  If you can find her death notice it might 
make reference to her parents.
 
Mrs. Bridget Ryan Was A Remarkable Old Lady

    People who lived in South Gloucester forty years ago undoubtedly will remember 
	Mrs. Bridget Ryan, who died in the fall of 1899 at the great age of 103 years.  
    Mrs. Ryan, as her name implies, was of Irish stock, having been born in the 
	county of Tipperary in the year 1796.  She came to this country about the year 
	1850, and was engaged for quite a number of years in the grocery business of 
	St. Andrew street, in Ottawa.
    The last few years of Mrs. Ryan's long life were spent with her daughter, Mrs. 
	John Foran, in South Gloucester, and old timers of that district will recall 
	that when she was one hundred years old she would be up at six o'clock in the 
	morning, feeding ducks, chickens and other fowl, in which she was very much 
	interested. It was Mrs. Ryan's proud boast that during her long life she was 
	never attended by a doctor, nor ever took any medicine of any kind.  Two years 
	before she died she could read moderately large print without the use of 
	spectacles.
 
Appreciate you checking it out if you get a chance.
Thanks
Mary
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Hi Mary:

Here's the death registration for Bridget Ryan:




 
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