Bridget Dowling was born on 3 July 1891 in Dublin. She grew up at Flemings Place, near Mespil Road. She was still in her teens when she attended the 1909 RDS Dublin Horse Show and met Adolf Hitler’s half-brother, Alois Hitler, Jr.
Alois had pretended to be a wealthy hotelier who was touring Europe, but in fact, he was a kitchen porter working in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, which he later admitted to. In 1896, he left Austria to go to Dublin, Ireland in 1896, aged 14, because of the increasingly violent arguments with his father and the strained relationship with his stepmother Klara, Adolf’s mother.
Bridget fell for Alois’s charms, and after a number of months courting in Dublin, the couple eloped to London in 1910, mainly due to her family’s disapproval of her relationship with Alois. They married on 3 June 1910 and settled in Toxteth, Liverpool. On 12 March 1911, the couple had a baby boy they named William Patrick, but called him Paddy.
The 1911 census of England and Wales shows that all three were 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. Bridget’s name was crossed out on the form as Cissy Fowling and replaced with Cissie Hitler.
In 1914, Alois left his wife and son and went to Germany. After World War I, he pretended he had died. He had remarried although he was still married to Bridget, thus committing bigamy and was charged with bigamy by the German authorities in 1924. He escaped conviction because Bridget intervened and divorced him even though she was a devout Roman Catholic.
Bridget raised her son as a single parent. She moved to Highgate, North London, and took in lodgers to pay the bills.
Her son had moved to Germany in the 1930s and tried to capitalize on the Hitler name. He even received help from Uncle Adolf, who found him a job in a bank. But William “Paddy” Hitler soon became an embarrassment for Adolf Hitler, especially after William threatened to tell the press that Hitler’s alleged paternal grandfather was actually a Jewish merchant. William moved back to the UK and immigrated to the US in 1939. There in 1944. he joined the US Navy.
In 1939, Bridget joined her son on a tour of the United States, where he was invited to lecture on his infamous uncle. She decided to stay with her son in the USA. Bridget settled in Long Island, New York, changing her name to Stuart-Houston, as did her son.
In 1947, William married the German-born Phyllis Jean-Jacques. The couple had four sons: Alexander Adolf (born. 1949), Louis (born 1951), Howard Ronald (1957–1989), and Brian William (born 1965).
Howard Ronald Stuart-Houston was a Special Agent with the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service. He died in a car crash on 14 September 1989, leaving behind no children.
Allegedly, the other three sons of William made a pact not to have children in order to end the Hitler bloodline. Alexander denied there was an intentional pact to do so.
It is amazing to think that the Hitler bloodline is still continuing because of an Irish woman.
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