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Ann Galvin Leahey

about 1833–1845, uncertain – 19 September 1919

Ann Galvin Leahey was Dennis Leahey’s wife by about 1859–60 and the mother who reported eighteen children. Her birth remains irreconcilably stated as about 1833–34, April 1845, or about 1849; her parents are recorded as John Galvin and Ellen Long in a modern transcription. The 1918 directory and her 1919 death records place her at 319 Avenue C.

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Ann Galvin Leahey, an Irish-born widow of Dennis Leahey, died at 319 Avenue C in Bayonne on 19 September 1919.

Born at Ireland Died at Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey

Recorded as: Ann Galvin, Ann Leahey, Anna Galvin

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Life

A funeral register records "Ann | Leahey … 09/19/1919 | 319 Ave. C", names her parents as "John Galvin/Ire | Ellen Long/Ire", and describes her as "Aged 70y, Born Ire, Widow of Dennis Leahey." It records burial at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Block F, Letter Ea, no. 112, ordered by Miss Lillie Leahey. The entry documents Ann's married identity and death household, but it does not yet prove all of the children assigned to Dennis and Ann in family accounts.

The 1912 Sanborn map, sheet 37 (external address omitted for offline reading) prints "AVENUE C" and the number "319" in a close row of buildings. The mapped yellow dwelling is marked "2½" and "D", identifying a two-and-a-half-storey wooden home. A relative can now picture the small house at the address where Ann died, rather than having only a line in a register.

The 1860 census places Ann Lahey with Dennis in Syracuse’s 1st Ward. The 1880 Jersey City census identifies her as Dennis’s wife and explicitly identifies John as their son, so John’s parentage is now documented rather than inferred. Ten other children were named in that household.

In 1900 Ann reported eighteen children born and eleven living, correcting the compiled claim of thirteen children. She and Dennis reported forty years of marriage. Her stated 1862 immigration conflicts with her presence in Syracuse in 1860; Dennis’s stated 1840 arrival also sits uneasily with the other chronology, and both answers are retained as conflicting self-reports.

How we know this: Census and funeral records document Ann as Dennis’s wife, John’s mother, the mother of eighteen children with eleven living in 1900, and document her death, address, parents, widowhood and burial. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]

Death and burial

Evidence distinction: [RECORD] means text read from the photographed stone. [COMPILED] means volunteer-typed memorial information and is only a lead.

Find a Grave memorial 184191703

Why this memorial is attached

Matched by spouse Dennis and named children John, Matthew and Michael; the typed death also agrees with the funeral register. Find a Grave memorial 184191703 (findagrave.com).

Spouse Dennis C Leahey Sr 1837–1907 | Children John Leahey 1861–1887; Matthew Sylvester Leahy 1866–1934; Michael Joseph Leahey 1880–1938

[COMPILED] Volunteer-typed memorial fields

These fields are leads, not civil or church records, and do not replace documented dates. Find a Grave memorial 184191703 (findagrave.com).

Name: Ann Galvin Leahey Birth: Apr 1845 Death: 19 Sep 1919 (aged 74) Cemetery: Holy Name Cemetery and Mausoleum, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA Plot: Blk-F Sec-EA Gr-112 1C Family links: Spouse: Dennis C Leahey Sr 1837–1907 (m. 1860). Children: John Leahey 1861–1887; James J Leahey 1864–1947; Matthew Sylvester Leahy 1866–1934; Dennis Charles Leahey Sr 1867–1957; Francis John Leahey 1868–1913; Anna Bridget ‘Annie’ Leahey Collins 1870–1905; Malachy Leahy 1870–1960; Catherine Theresa Leahey 1874–1955; Mary Ellen H Leahey Gorman 1875–1944; Peter Vincent Leahey 1876–1950; Hanorah Matilda Leahey Hedley 1879–1917; Michael Joseph Leahey 1880–1938.

Photograph status: a photographed inscription is available and shown below. Find a Grave memorial 184191703 (findagrave.com).

[RECORD] Photographed inscription, transcribed verbatim

JOHN H. HEDLEY DIED DEC. 4, 1917 VINCENT LEAHEY DIED OCT. 8, 1918 ANN LEAHEY DIED SEP. 19, 1919 CATHERINE LEAHEY DIED APR.
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Citation: Find a Grave memorial 184191703 (findagrave.com); monument photograph credited below.

Cemetery photograph from Find a Grave memorial 184191703 — Photograph by Glenn Blank. Copyright remains with the photographer. From Find a Grave memorial 184191703 (findagrave.com).

Family

Parents

Spouse

Dennis Leahey

Children

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Where they lived

1919: 319 Avenue C, Bayonne, Hudson County, New JerseyOpen place question: The same 1912 address is read as a three-storey frame store in finding 53 and as a 2½-storey frame dwelling in finding 29. Neither reading is overwritten. The current page’s compiled 1920 construction year does not prove replacement.
1919: 319 Avenue C, Bayonne, Hudson County, New JerseyOpen place question: The same 1912 address is read as a three-storey frame store in finding 53 and as a 2½-storey frame dwelling in finding 29. Neither reading is overwritten. The current page’s compiled 1920 construction year does not prove replacement.
1918: 319 Avenue C, Bayonne, Hudson County, New JerseyOpen place question: The same 1912 address is read as a three-storey frame store in finding 53 and as a 2½-storey frame dwelling in finding 29. Neither reading is overwritten. The current page’s compiled 1920 construction year does not prove replacement.

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Places listed on this page

Ireland
Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey
Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York
Holy Name Cemetery, Jersey City Cemetery or burial place
New Jersey
County Cork, Ireland
New York
Ireland (County Cork)
Germany
Holy Name Cemetery, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey Cemetery or burial place
Brick Township, Ocean County, New Jersey
United States

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The pins show approximate places. The line only joins them in time order; it does not prove the route travelled. 7 of the places listed above are recorded only as a county or country, so they are not pinned. Cemetery and burial places have red pins.

Images of these addresses and sites

Insurance maps show a historical footprint, while recent street photographs show the site today. A recent view is not proof that the family’s building survives.

Historical insurance map for 313 and 319 Avenue C, Bayonne — **Historical insurance map, 1912 — a footprint or site plan, not a photograph.**
Building survival: not established by this map.
**Credit:** Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Sanborn Maps Collection. Cropped from sheet 37.
**Licence:** Public domain

Recent street photograph near 319 Avenue C, Bayonne — **Recent street photograph, 2020-01-10 — a view of the site today, which may or may not show the same building.**
This is a present-day streetscape near the address, not proof that the pictured building is the family's historic dwelling.
Building survival: not established unless the note below says otherwise.
**Credit:** © lumi / Mapillary, CC BY-SA 4.0, image 955020015275249. Unmodified.
**Licence:** Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Timeline

April 1845

1900 census birth statement

The census records Ann as age 55, born April 1845 in Ireland, and married 40 years. [10]

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1860

1860 census in Syracuse

Ann was 26, born in Ireland, living with Dennis; both had the “married within the year” box checked. Her age implies birth about 1833–34. [9]

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1880

1880 census in Jersey City

Ann was Dennis’s wife; John was explicitly their son, with ten other named children in the household. [2]

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1880

1880 census age statement

Ann was recorded as 42, implying birth about 1837–38; this conflicts with her 1860, 1900 and 1919 ages. [15]

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1900

Eighteen children, eleven living

Ann reported 18 children born and 11 living, correcting the compiled 13-child claim. Her stated 1862 arrival conflicts with the 1860 census. [4]

Proved by a record

26 April 1907

Fourteen-versus-eighteen child-count conflict

Dennis’s funeral account calls him the father of fourteen children; Ann’s two obituaries and the 1900 census say she bore eighteen. Neither count has been made to overwrite the other. [8]

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1910

Widowed, living with her son Peter in Bayonne

Bayonne Ward 1, district 5, sheet 5B. A **Peter V. Leahey**, 23 and single, is head of the household and she is entered simply as "Mother", 63 and widowed, three years after Dennis died. The census gives her birth as about 1847 in Ireland and records that both of her own parents were Irish-born — the only record found that says anything at all about John Galvin and Ellen Long. Her daughter Mary and Mary's husband Patrick Gorman were enumerated in the same district on sheet 6A, one page later: mother and daughter were living within a few doors of each other. **Caution:** this archive's Peter Vincent Leahey was born about 1876 and would have been about 34 in 1910, not 23. The son here is therefore either mis-aged by the enumerator or a younger Peter among the six unidentified children. The household is hers; which son it is has not been settled.

Proved by a record

1912

Conflicting Sanborn readings at 319 Avenue C

Finding 53 reads the enlarged footprint as a three-storey frame store (“S.”, “3”, about 32 feet); finding 29 read a 2½-storey frame dwelling (“2½”, “D.”). Both readings are retained and neither is overwritten. [19]

Proved by a record

19 September 1919

Died

The Dempsey transcription records Ann at 319 Avenue C, names John Galvin and Ellen Long, calls her Dennis’s widow and prints HCCC; the official cemetery database identifies the burial as Holy Name Cemetery, F–EA–112. [1]

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19 September 1919

Funeral and burial

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19 September 1919

Obituaries count the family

Two papers agree that Ann was the mother of eighteen children and left sixty-four grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren. [5]

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22 September 1919

Funeral and burial reported

The Saturday, 20 September Bayonne Times notice schedules Monday’s 10 a.m. service at St. Mary’s R.C. Church, followed by Holy Name Cemetery burial under Dempsey’s direction. [5]

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20 September 1919

Forty-year residence phrase retained as loose

The rival notice’s forty-year Bayonne duration is approximate and must not be used to infer a 1920–1921 death. The dated Bayonne Times notice, funeral register and monument establish 19 September 1919. [6]

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19 September 1919

Photographed monument

The photographed family monument reads Ann’s exact death date. [7]

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19 September 1919

Undertaker register gives age, parents and funeral order

The faded-register transcription calls Ann 70 (implying birth about 1849), names John Galvin and Ellen Long as her Irish-born parents, and says Miss Lillie Leahey ordered the funeral. [11]

Proved by a record

20 September 1919

Buried in Holy Name Cemetery plot F–EA–112

The official cemetery database gives burial on 20 September 1919, Section/Block F, Letter/Section EA, Grave 112, Depth 1C. This is not Dennis’s Y–A–18 grave. [13]

Proved by a record

20 September 1919

Separate grave from Dennis

Ann’s F–EA–112 plot differs from Dennis’s Y–A–18 grave; the separation is preserved rather than silently harmonized. [14]

Proved by a record

1919

Compiled F-EA-112 depth and GPS

[COMPILED] Memorial depth 1C and GPS 40.7312291, -74.0831914; original cemetery evidence remains the stronger burial source. [22]

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about 1920

Possible replacement building [COMPILED/INFERENCE]

A compiled property page calls the present address a five-unit apartment building built in 1920. If accurate, that suggests replacement just after Ann’s death, but no assessor card or permit chain proves it. [21]

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Original records

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FamilySearch 1880 United States census collection

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1912 Sanborn map: 319 Avenue C, Bayonne
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What the records say

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