Brigid A. "Delia" Henry, born 1880, Drumlosh, Athlone, Roscommon to John Henry and Margaret Shine. As was common, she was baptized Brigid but known as Delia. On her own at age 15, Delia boarded the Lucania at Queenstown, arriving in New York 11 May 1895. Her first destination was New York. By 1900, she found employment as cook and general servant in the home of Samuel McDougal at #11 Myrtle Street, Boston. In 1913, she married John Joseph Battle, a widower whose extended Sligo family had settled in and around Hyde Park, Boston. They had one son together, William, and three sons as well from John's first marriage. Delia continued to work outside the house as a cook until a few months before her death in 1935. She is buried in the Battles family plot in Fairview Cemetery, Boston.
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| Date of Birth | 1st Jan 1880 | |
| Date of Death | 1st Jan 1935 | |
