Person in this family
Dora Leahey Wilson
Born about 1900; death not recorded
Dora Leahey was born about 1900, a daughter of Dennis C. Leahey and Ellen T. Reilly, and married a Wilson. The 1910 census of Bayonne Ward 4 enters a **Nora** Leahey, aged ten, in exactly her place in the family. Nora and Dora are both ordinary short forms of Honora and the age fits, so this is very likely her — but the census says Nora and this archive says Dora, and the difference is left standing rather than tidied.
Proved by a record
Dora Leahey was born about 1900, a daughter of Dennis C. Leahey and Ellen T. Reilly, and married a Wilson. The 1910 census of Bayonne Ward 4 enters a **Nora** Leahey, aged ten, in exactly her place in the family. Nora and Dora are both ordinary short forms of Honora and the age fits, so this is very likely her — but the census says Nora and this archive says Dora, and the difference is left standing rather than tidied.
Born at Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey
How is this person related?
Andrew John Leahey’s first cousin three times removed
Gina D. Cacace’s spouse's first cousin three times removed (by marriage)
Abigail Ann Leahey’s first cousin four times removed
Marie C. Fitzgerald’s spouse's first cousin twice removed (by marriage)
Kevin Leahey’s first cousin twice removed
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:
Dora Leahey Wilson is your first cousin, 3 times removed.
Life
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- Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey
- New Jersey
- Ireland
- New York
- United States
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At home in Bayonne Ward 4
Entered as Nora, aged 10, in Dennis and Ellen Leahey's household, sheet 10B.
Proved by a record
What the records say
1 record transcribed.
Record exhibit
Dennis Leahey household, 1910 United States census, Bayonne Ward 4
A census is a government list of the people who were living in a home.
Partly proved
Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
Bayonne Ward 4, district 22, sheet 10B. Dennis Leahey, head, 42, born New York, father and mother born Ireland. Ellen Leahey, wife, 36, born New York. Children: Catherine 16, Nora 10, Matthew 7, Stella 4, Dennis 2, all born New Jersey.
Historical context
These background articles explain the places, work, and events in this entry.
Bayonne and the Industrial Waterfront, 1870–1920
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What Sponsors and Witnesses Can Tell Us
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Reading Irish Civil Registration
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The Irish Road to Ipswich, Queensland
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What we still don't know
- [PRIVACY FLAG CORRECTED] This person was marked as possibly living, which suppressed everything about them. Nothing in their record refers to any year after 1867, so they cannot be alive: even somebody born in that year would be over a hundred and ten now. The flag was a default that had never been revisited, and it was hiding a nineteenth-century person as though they were a contemporary.
- [NAME] Census 'Nora' against the family's 'Dora'. Both are short forms of Honora. A birth or marriage record would settle which she used.