Person in this family
Cecilia McGreevy
Born 28 September 1888; death not recorded
Our family tree assigns Cecilia and Sarah Ellen the identical date 28 September 1888 and the same parents, Peter McGreevy and Mary Ann Hickey.
Partly proved
Cecilia McGreevy is a family-tree child reportedly born on 28 September 1888; no direct record confirms her identity.
Birth: From our family tree - no record found yet
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:
Cecilia McGreevy is your second cousin, 2 times removed.
Life
Our family tree calls Cecilia McGreevy a daughter of Peter McGreevy and Mary Ann Hickey and gives her birth as 28 September 1888. It assigns the identical date and parents to Sarah Ellen McGreevy, whose cemetery record says only that she died aged eight in May 1897. No record in this archive names Cecilia, so it is not yet clear whether Cecilia and Sarah Ellen were twins, whether one date is wrong, or whether Cecilia is a duplicate entry.
How we know this: Cecilia appears only in our family tree, with a birth date that conflicts or overlaps with Sarah Ellen's entry. [1]
Family
Parents
Siblings · birth order
See this family in the family treeWhere they lived
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Places listed on this page
- Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
- Ireland
- County Tipperary, Ireland
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Timeline
Born
28 Sep 1888
From our family tree - no record found yet
Life event
Our family tree assigns Cecilia and Sarah Ellen the identical date 28 September 1888 and the same parents, Peter McGreevy and Mary Ann Hickey.
From our family tree - no record found yet
What the records say
1 record transcribed.
Record exhibit
Australian Cemeteries, Ipswich Roman Catholic B
This old record gives information about the person or family named here.
Partly proved
Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
HICKEY | John | … | 25-Sep-1885 | 29 | County Tipperary, Ireland | McGREEVY | Sarah Ellen | | 7-May-1897 | 8 | Daughter of P. & M. McGREEVY Buried with Jack HOARE. | McGREEVY | Sarah Ellen | | 7-May-1897 | 8 | Daughter of P. & M. McGREEVY Buried with Jack HOARE. | Daughter of P. & M. McGREEVY. | McGREEVY | Sarah Ellen | | 7-May-1897 | 8 | Daughter of P. & M. McGREEVY Buried with Jack HOARE.Show the full recordHide the full recordFull record, about 100 words
| McGREEVY | Sarah Ellen | | 7-May-1897 | 8 | Daughter of P. & M. McGREEVY Buried with Jack HOARE. | McGREEVY | Sarah Ellen | | 7-May-1897 | 8 | Daughter of P. & M. McGREEVY Buried with Jack HOARE | HOARE Buried with Sarah Ellen McGREEVY & M. HOARE. | McGREEVY | Sarah Ellen | | 7-May-1897 | 8 | Daughter of P. & M. McGREEVY Buried with Jack HOARE
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…
Reading Irish Civil Registration
The year 1864 is the dividing line in this family’s Irish paper trail. Civil registration began in 1845 for non-Catholic and civil marriages, but from 1 January 1864 the law required registration of all births,…
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
- Was Cecilia a separate child from Sarah Ellen?
- Does a Queensland birth or Catholic baptism record name Cecilia or Cecily McGreevy?
- Is 28 September 1888 correct for either girl?
- Search Queensland births in 1888–1889 for Cecilia/Cecily and unnamed female McGreevy children with parents Peter and Mary; inspect Catholic baptism registers around Ipswich and Amberley.