Person in this family
Catherine Mary McGuire
1 July 1901 – 12 February 2001
Catherine Mary McGuire was born about 1901 at Ipswich, Queensland, the seventh child of James McGuire and Margaret Ellen Hickey. She married a Bell and **died in 2001, aged about a hundred** — the longest life in this archive by some distance. She was born when Queensland had been a federated Australian state for less than a year, and lived to see the twenty-first century.
Partly proved
Catherine Mary McGuire appears only in the family tree as a daughter of James McGuire and Margaret Ellen Hickey, reportedly living from 1901 to 2001.
Recorded as: Catherine Mary McGuire Bell
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How is this person related?
Andrew John Leahey’s second cousin twice removed
Gina D. Cacace’s spouse's second cousin twice removed (by marriage)
Abigail Ann Leahey’s second cousin three times removed
Marie C. Fitzgerald’s second cousin once removed
Kevin Leahey’s spouse's second cousin once removed (by marriage)
Worked out from the recorded parents and marriages. No sex is recorded for anyone in this archive, so the wording stays neutral.
How this person is related to Andrew:
Catherine Mary McGuire is your second cousin, 2 times removed.
Life
Our family tree lists Catherine Mary McGuire as a daughter of James McGuire and Margaret Ellen Hickey, born on 1 July 1901 and dead on 12 February 2001. Those dates would mean that she lived to the age of 99, but no original record in this archive confirms her birth, parentage, marriage, surname in later life, or death. Nothing else is currently known about her.
How we know this: These details, including the reported age of 99, is based entirely on our family tree. [1][2]
Family
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Places listed on this page
- Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
- Queens, New York City, New York
- Walloon, Queensland, Australia
- Ipswich General Cemetery, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia Cemetery or burial place
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Timeline
Born
1 Jul 1901
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Died
12 Feb 2001
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What the records say
2 records transcribed.
Record exhibit
Queensland Times funeral notices for Margaret Ellen McGuire, 18 June 1928
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Proved by a record
Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
The Friends of Mr. and Mrs. JOHN McGUIRE, Mr. and Mrs. P. McGUIRE, Mr. and Mrs. CHURCHITT, Mr. and Mrs. J. WYATTE, Mr. and Mrs. W. BELL, Mr. W. McGUIRE, and Misses NELLIE and MARY McGUIRE … their deceased Mother and Mother-in-law (MARGARET ELLEN McGUIRE). | Messrs. WILLIAM, JOHN, PATRICK, and THOMAS HICKEY, Mrs. McGREEVY, Mrs. JARVIS, and Mrs. ROGERS … their deceased Sister.
Record exhibit
Margaret Ellen Hickey McGuire memorial, Ipswich General Cemetery
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Partly proved
Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
Margaret Ellen Hickey McGuire, born 18 May 1864 Ipswich, died 17 June 1928 at Walloon; buried Ipswich General Cemetery, Roman Catholic 1A, Row 38, Grave 24. Spouse James McGuire, born 1864, married 1887. Children: Michael John 1887-1965, Ellen (Jones) 1889-1985, Mary Agnes 1891-1987, Evelyn Maud (Churchett) 1894-1974, Patrick Joseph 1896-1978, Bridget Johanna (Wyatt) 1899-1987, Catherine Mary (Bell) 1901-2001, William James 1904-1960.
Historical context
These background articles explain the places, work, and events in this entry.
What Sponsors and Witnesses Can Tell Us
Catholic registers often preserve the people standing just outside a family photograph. A baptism normally names the child, parents, date and sponsors or godparents; a marriage normally names the couple and wit…
The Irish Road to Ipswich, Queensland
Most branches on this site point toward New York or New Jersey. The Hickey–McGreevy–McGuire cluster points in the opposite direction, to Ipswich, Queensland. The Australian evidence is uneven: cemetery records …
What we still don't know
- Can a birth record confirm 1 July 1901 and her parents?
- Did she marry and use another surname?
- Can a funeral, cemetery, or death record confirm 12 February 2001?
- Search contemporary Queensland funeral notices and cemetery systems under possible married surnames; the 2001 death is too recent for the ordinary historical death-index cutoff in many collections.
- Dates come from the family's Find a Grave memorials rather than the Queensland register; the registration would confirm them.
- Her husband's given name. The memorial records only the surname Bell.
- [MERGED 7 August 2026] This person had been entered twice — as `catherine-mary-mcguire-1901` and as `catherine-mary-mcguire-bell-1901` — when the Queensland families were built out from Find a Grave without first checking the names already in the archive. The two records are one person and are now joined; the old address redirects.