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Bridget Dowling, the Irishwoman who married Alois Hitler, Adolf Hitler's half-brother.

A 1911 British Census document unearthed by genealogy website findmypast has shed further light on the lives of Irishwoman Bridget Dowling and her husband, Alois Hitler, Jr., the older half-brother of Adolf Hitler.

The Irish link to the Hitler family is one of the more surprising facts from 20th-century Irish history.
Bridget Dowling, a Dublin native, was still in her teens when she met Alois Hitler, Jr. at the Dublin Horse Show in 1909. The story goes that he told Bridget and her father that he was a wealthy hotelier traveling in Ireland, when in fact he was a waiter at Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel who had arrived in Ireland some time earlier after running away from his abusive father.

The two eloped to London the following year, where they married and had a son, Patrick William Hitler, born in 1911.

The Census of England and Wales from that year shows all three residing in Liverpool at 102 Upper Stanhope Street. Alois is listed as “Anton,” and wrote down the German word “sohn” (son) in reference to Patrick William.

The 1911 Census of England and Wales showing the entry for the Hitler-Dowling family.

In a memoir later penned by Bridget, she claimed that Adolf Hitler visited them in England to avoid conscription into the Austrian army, but this is widely disputed by historians who cite proof that he was in Germany at the time.

Ironically, the house on Upper Stanhope Street was completely destroyed in a German air raid during WWII.

The Hitlers were long gone by then, however. Alois returned to Germany in 1914, without Bridget. Their relationship had soured, with some accounts saying he abandoned his wife and son, while others maintain that Bridget refused to go with him because he had become abusive.

After the war was over, Alois had word of his death sent to Bridget and then remarried, though she soon learned the truth when he was charged with bigamy.

Patrick Hitler visited his father in Germany when he was 18 and was introduced to his ‘Uncle Adolf,’ who was by that point on his rise to power. Patrick returned to England, and in 1939 he and Bridget, fearful over their connection, emigrated to the U.S. where they settled on Long Island and changed their last name to Stuart-Huston.

In spite of this, Patrick did tour the U.S. giving lectures on his “madman uncle,” and Bridget wrote a manuscript titled “My Brother-in-Law Adolf.”

In 1941, when America joined the war effort Patrick enlisted to fight against his uncle and served in the Medical Corps where he saw action and received an honorable discharge.

After the war he set up in business as a laboratory technician in Patchogue, NY. He and wife, Phyllis, shared a big house on the property, while Bridget had a small cottage on the grounds.

Patrick and Phyllis had four sons, one who died soon after birth. Neighbors say the family kept to themselves and did not welcome visitors.

Bridget Dowling Hitler died in 1969 at the age of 78 and is buried in a small Catholic graveyard in Coram, NY. Patrick William was buried beside her after dying suddenly in 1987.
*Originally published May 2014.

Source:http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/Census-shows-Hitlers-half-brother-married-to-an-Irishwoman-lived-in-Liverpool.html

教你简单方法看懂乙肝化验单

一位机关干部电话咨询：单位组织我们二十余人到贵医院体检，今天拿乙肝化验单，发现结果各不一样，有的全部阴性，有的一项阳性，有的两项或三项阳性。我的化验单数据为：HBsAg阴性、HBsAb阴性、HBeAg阴性、HBeAb阴性、HBcAb 阳性。看完之后我很是担心，其中一项指标为阳性，希望你能告诉我这是什么回事，是否被乙肝病毒感染，有无传染性。

 　　我们大多数人都做过“乙肝两对半”的检测，也都看到过这种乙肝标志物检验单，这种检测的直接目的就是检查一个人是否感染了乙肝病毒，是否有抗体。但事实上，很多人并不会看这种检验单，不能完全明白各种检测指标所代表的含义，到底该如何看化验单呢。

 　　首先，我们先了解乙型肝炎病毒的结构。我们可以把它想像成一个鸡蛋，乙肝病毒的最外面是一层外膜，称为表面抗原，这一层就相当于鸡蛋的蛋壳；再往内就是病毒的内膜，内膜主要是核心蛋白，这一部分就相当于鸡蛋的蛋白部分，称为核心抗原；正常情况下并不能在血液内检测到核心抗原，只能检测到它可以溶解的成分，称为e抗原。人感染乙肝病毒后，免疫细胞对上述3种产生对应的抗体，即表面抗体、核心抗体和e 抗体，这样就构成了三对抗原和抗体，但因为血清中不能检出核心抗原，所以临床检查时乙肝病毒标志物主要包括乙肝病毒表面抗原（HBsAg）、乙肝病毒表面抗体（HBsAb）、乙肝病毒e抗原（HBeAg）、乙肝病毒e抗体（HBeAb）及乙肝病毒核心抗体（HBcAb）检查，这就是我们常说的“乙肝两对半”检查。

 　　第一项“乙肝表面抗原”如果是阳性，就表明被检测人感染了乙肝病毒。如果是阴性，就表示被检测人目前没有感染乙肝病毒。

 　　第二项“乙肝表面抗体”如果是阳性，表明被检测人对乙肝病毒产生了抗体，一般不会被传染和感染。如果是阴性，则表明被检测人没有抗体。”

　　第三项“乙肝e抗原“如果是阳性，就表明被检测人身体内的乙肝病毒正在复制期，也是就是传染期。

 　　第四项“乙肝e抗体“如果是阳性，表明被检测人感染过乙肝病毒。

　　第五项“乙肝核心抗体“如果是阳性，而其他各项全部是阴性，或者只有第二项是阳性，就表明被检测人曾经感染过乙肝病毒，但现在已经产生抗体了；与HBsAg同时阳性表示现在有乙肝病毒感染。实际上成年人百分之六七十都感染过乙肝病毒，多数可以自己恢复。
　　从化验单上分析，这位咨询的同志处于乙肝病毒感染恢复期。这是一种很常见的情况，代表曾经感染过乙肝病毒，但身体自己抵抗过去了，处于感染恢复状态，已经产生了感染性抗体，不用服用抗乙肝病毒药物，可以加量注射乙肝疫苗以促进第二项“乙肝表面抗体”的产生。HBcAb项随着时间延长会逐渐衰减以至于消失，也可能会终身携带，但都不影响以后的生活工作，对结婚生育也没有影响。