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Richard Henry Lodge TIGHE (1826-1893)    [Research Pending]

Birth:  1826 - Queens County, Ireland
Death:  April 20, 1893 - Brooklyn, New York

Interment:  Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
               Note remains moved to a different plot in Green-Wood Cemetery April 1915

Arrived in the United States in Approximately 1843

Father:  Daniel TIGHE (1805?-?) - Born in Ireland  [Research Pending]
Mother:  Maria LODGE (1807?-?) - Born in Ireland   [Research Pending]

Spouse:  Elizabeth Ann MEYERS (1831-1909)

            Known to the Family As "Lizzie"
            Last name spelled "Myers" in some sources

            b. February 4, 1831 - Richmond, Virginia
            d. January 15, 1909 - Brooklyn, N.Y. - Interment: Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
                 Note remains moved to a different plot in Green-Wood Cemetery April 1915

            Parents of Elizabeth Ann MEYERS:

               Judah MYERS, Jr. (1807-1852)

                  b. March 19, 1807 - Richmond, Virginia
                  d. March 1, 1852 - Richmond, Virginia
                       Interment: Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia

                       m2. Mary D. MERIAM on February 12, 1849 in Henrico County, Virginia

                       MYERS name also spelled MEYERS

               Elizabeth CREW (1801-1835)

                  b. September 2, 1801 - Richmond, Virginia
                  d. October 29, 1835 - Richmond, Virginia
                      Interment: Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia

                      CREW name also spelled CREWE

               Judah MYERS, Jr. and Elizabeth CREW were married
                  February 27, 1828 in Henrico County, Virginia

Children:

   Lizzie TIGHE (1858-?)
     b. Approximately 1858 in Virginia

   William H. TIGHE (1860-?)
     b. Approximately 1860 in Virginia

   Fannie TIGHE (1862-?)
     b. Approximately 1862 in Virginia

   Charles TIGHE (1864-?)
     b. Approximately 1864 in Virginia

   [Possible Daughter]
     b. April 15, 1867 - Brooklyn, New York
     See Tighe Message Board

 * George Lodge TIGHE (1872-1958)
     b. 1872 in Jersey City, New Jersey

   Note: The 1880 Census also indicated that living at the TIGHE household was a 
         domestic servant named Dorah DRISCOLL born in Ireland in approximately 
         1854, father and mother also born in Ireland.

Biographical Information

Richard Henry Lodge TIGHE was an Episcopal Clergyman also known as the Reverend R. H. L. TIGHE.
He graduated from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland and then moved to the United States, serving 
first as a teacher, possibly at Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York, and then in Richmond, 
Virginia where he met and married Elizabeth Ann MEYERS. The date of his arrival in the United 
States is uncertain. Some sources say 1843, but if he was born in 1826, he would have been only 
about 17 years of age in 1843 and wouldn't have been able to have first graduated from Trinity 
College, so these details remain to be determined.

Toward the end or shortly after the Civil War, Richard Henry Lodge TIGHE was ordained as an 
Episcopal Priest and assigned to a church in Parkville, Brooklyn, New York. From there, on 
September 19, 1875, he went to Grace Church Chapel in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Grace Chapel
(Church of the Immaculate Conception and Clergy Houses) was built in 1894-1896 and is now on the
National Register of Historic Places. Richard Henry Lodge TIGHE served as Rector there until
his death in 1893, dying of heart failure following a two-month illness after suffering a fall.
Two days before he died, he wrote a death notice for himself which read: "Died.-Thursday, at
the Parsonage of Grace Church Chapel, 219 High st., Brooklyn, N.Y., the Rev. Richard H. L. Tighe,
who has been incumbent of that parish since September 19, 1875, to the last moment of his life,
nearly nineteen years."

During the course of some research, a Tighe relative - Frances J. TIGHE (1853-1919) - was 
discovered on a Tighe message board. She was single and worked as a dressmaker and is reported to 
have died on January 10, 1919 and to have been buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York 
in the same location as many other members of the family listed here. The record states that she 
was born in Ireland and that her parents were Donald TIGHE and Maria LODGE. At first glance, this 
would seem to conflict with the assumption that the older TIGHE in this line was Daniel TIGHE. 
However, it is clear by the age difference - 27 years - that Frances would not have been likely 
to have been a sibling of Richard Henry Lodge TIGHE, and she could not have been his daughter, 
especially if she was born in Ireland. Frances is, therefore, currently an unknown, but a guess 
might be that her father, Donald TIGHE, was a nephew of Daniel and that her mother, Maria LODGE, 
was a niece of the Maria LODGE in this line.

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George Lodge TIGHE (1872-1958)  

Birth:  November 4, 1872 - Jersey City, New Jersey
Death:  1958 (Approximately) - Miami, Florida

Interment:  Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Father:  Richard Henry Lodge TIGHE (1826-1893)
Mother:  Elizabeth Ann MEYERS (1831-1909)


Spouse #1:  Jessie Estella HUNTER (1880-1904)

               b. February 15, 1880 - Brooklyn, New York
               d. January 5, 1904 - Brooklyn, New York

               Father:  Thomas Gregory HUNTER
               Mother:  Minnie A. JACKSON

   George Lodge TIGHE and Jessie Estella HUNTER Married:  August 28, 1901

   Children of George Lodge TIGHE and Jessie Estella HUNTER:
 
      Charles Lodge TIGHE
         Died January 4, 1904 - Age 5 Hours

      Gerard Eugene TIGHE
         Died January 4, 1904 - Age 12 Hours

   Complications during childbirth resulted in the death of twin boys
      Charles Lodge TIGHE and Gerard Eugene TIGHE only hours after they were born
      and the death of their mother, Jessie Estella HUNTER, the following day.
      All three are interred in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.


Spouse #2:  Gertrude STONE (1884-1963)  

               b. March 22, 1884
               d. Summer 1963 - New York, New York
               Interment:  Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

               Gertrude STONE was a practical nurse who delivered children in homes.

               See Stone/Rollins - Ancestry of Gertrude STONE (1884-1963).

Children of George Lodge TIGHE and Gertrude STONE:

   Clifford TIGHE (1906-1963)  

      b. November 26, 1906

      m. Florence WELLS ( - )

      Children of Clifford TIGHE (1906-1963) and Florence WELLS ( - ):

         Rosalie Dorothy TIGHE (1928-2010)  

            b. January 23, 1928 - New York, New York
            d. September 3, 2010 - New Hamshire

            m. Clayton Charles KAISER (1927-1998)

               b. March 8, 1927 - Leonia, New Jersey
               d. April 27, 1998 - Dover, New Hampshire

            Living Descendent(s) and/or Living Immediate
            Relative(s) of Living Descendant(s)

         [Son] TIGHE

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            Living Descendent(s) and/or Living Immediate
            Relative(s) of Living Descendant(s)


 * Dorothy Gertrude TIGHE (1908-1980)

   Richard Henry Lodge TIGHE (1912-1988)  

      b. January 16, 1912 - New York City
      d. October 5, 1988 - Far Rockaway, New York

      m. Mary Rita BUCKRIDGE (1915?-????) - Married in Manhattan, New York City in 1934

           Father: John J. BUCKRIDGE born circa 1892 in New York
           Mother: Mary E. (?) BUCKRIDGE born circa 1890 in Ireland

         Mary Rita BUCKRIDGE used Rita TIGHE as her married name. The couple eventually
         separated with a divorce finalized in March of 1961 in Dade County, Florida.

      Richard Henry Lodge TIGHE (1912-1988) worked for a period of time in Manhattan as a 
      clerk in a real estate office and as a financial institution clerk before enlisting 
      as a Private in the U.S. Army in 1941. After World War II broke out, he remained in 
      the service for all or most of the war. Later in life he lived in Texas and Florida.
      Richard Henry Lodge TIGHE (1912-1988) is buried in a cemetery in New York City.

         Descendent of Richard Henry Lodge TIGHE (1912-1988) and Mary Rita BUCKRIDGE:

            Raymond J. TIGHE (1937-2004)

               b. August 15, 1937 - New York State
               d. August 18, 2004

               No marriages of record for Raymond J. TIGHE (1937-2004)
               Last Known Residence: Ramsey, Bergen County, New Jersey

Biographical Information

George Lodge TIGHE managed apartment complexes in New York City and, it is believed, owned one or 
more of them as well as evidenced by various real estate transactions appearing in the New York 
Times such as, for example, those on May 14, 1915 and July 4, 1919.  Records show the family 
residing on West 135th Street in Manhattan in 1920 and on West 188th Street in 1930.  At some 
point, George Lodge TIGHE managed, and possibly also owned, a cigar store in New York City.  He 
and his second wife, Gertrude STONE, retired to Miami, Florida where George Lodge TIGHE died in 
approximately 1958.  Gertrude STONE returned to the greater New York City area and died in 1963.

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Dorothy Gertrude TIGHE (1908-1980)  

Birth:  September 12, 1908 - New York, New York
Death:  July 2, 1980 - Morristown, New Jersey

Interment:  Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York *

Father:  George Lodge TIGHE (1872-1958)
Mother:  Gertrude STONE (1884-1963)  

Spouse:  William Lloyd SPENCE (1908-1963)

See Also: Marriage of William Lloyd SPENCE (1908-1963) and Dorothy Gertrude TIGHE (1908-1980)

* Multiple generations of the TIGHE and SPENCE families are buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
  which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Biographical Information

Dorothy Gertrude TIGHE grew up in Manhattan and graduated from public high school there.  Following 
graduation, she pursued a teaching career, receiving her teaching certificate from the New York 
Teachers Training College, a normal school then associated with the Wadleigh High School for Girls, 
now Wadleigh School, at 215 West 114th Street in Manhattan.

Although certified as a teacher, Dorothy Gertrude TIGHE spent most of her life in the banking 
industry, most significantly as a senior teller at the National Newark and Essex Bank branch in 
their hometown, Caldwell, New Jersey.

Dorothy Gertrude TIGHE was active in the church throughout her life, initially in the Episcopal 
Church in New York City where she sang in the choir.  It was through activities at the Episcopal 
Church where she met her husband to be, William Lloyd SPENCE.  Dorothy later continued her church 
activities at the First Presbyterian Church in Caldwell, New Jersey.