Notes on Our Genealogy

My great-grandfather Thomas Steven Quaid was the first of his siblings to emigrate to the United States, but he wasn’t the last. Ultimately four of the ten Quaid kids would settle in the States. The second sibling to make the move was Anna Bridget Quaid, Thomas’ younger sister. This is what I know about her story. Anna Bridget Quaid Rigdon, 1947 Limerick Anna was born in Limerick on September 20, 1876 to Charles Quaid and Mary Nealon. According to the birth registration, the family was living on Athlunkard Street and Charles was a “provision man”. I’m not sure what that means. Elsewhere he was described as a “store man” and a “clerk” around that time, so perhaps he worked in a shop. The Quaid's neighborhood around 1880 A few years later, Charles took a job as a pig buyer with Matterson’s, and the family moved to what was then 33 Nelson Street, across the street from the train station. Anna attended the nearby Presentation School, which was founded and operated by The Sisters of the