Person in this family
Ellen Long
Born date unknown; death not recorded
Ellen Long is named as Ann Galvin Leahey’s Irish-born mother in a modern transcription of a faded 1919 undertaker register.
Partly proved
Ellen Long is named as Ann Galvin Leahey’s Irish-born mother in a modern transcription of a faded 1919 undertaker register.
Born at Ireland
How is this person related?
Andrew John Leahey’s great-great-great-great-grandparent
Gina D. Cacace’s spouse's great-great-great-great-grandparent (by marriage)
Abigail Ann Leahey’s great-great-great-great-great-grandparent
Marie C. Fitzgerald’s spouse's great-great-great-grandparent (by marriage)
Kevin Leahey’s great-great-great-grandparent
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:
Ellen Long is your 4× great-grandparent.
Life
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Places listed on this page
- Ireland
- Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey
- New Jersey
- 319 Avenue C, Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey
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Named as Ann Leahey’s mother
The undertaker-register transcription names Ellen Long, from Ireland, as Ann’s mother. [1]
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What the records say
3 records transcribed.
Record exhibit
Dempsey register entry for Ann Leahey, 19 September 1919
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Partly proved
Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
Ann Leahey … 09/19/1919 … 319 Ave. C … John Galvin/Ire Ellen Long/Ire HCCC Aged 70y, Born Ire, Widow of Dennis Leahey, Buried in Block F, Letter Ea, No. 112, Ordered by Miss Lillie Leahey.
Record exhibit
Dempsey register transcription introduction and condition warning
This old record gives information about the person or family named here.
Partly proved
Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
were very faded ... were transcribed to the best of our ability
Record exhibit
Ann Leahey in Peter V. Leahey's household, 1910 census, Bayonne Ward 1
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 1, district 5, Hudson County, sheet 5B. Peter V Leahey, head, 23, single, born New Jersey, father and mother born Ireland. Ann Leahey, mother, 63, widowed, born Ireland, her own father and mother both born Ireland.
Historical context
These background articles explain the places, work, and events in this entry.
Bayonne and the Industrial Waterfront, 1870–1920
The Bayonne in these family records was a new city built around water, rails and heavy industry. Bayonne Township was formed only in 1861, uniting older settlements on Bergen Neck; it became a city in 1869. The…
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
- Confirm the parent name against the original faded register page or Ann’s civil death certificate; the available webpage is a modern transcription.
- The 1910 census records that both of their daughter Ann's parents were born in Ireland, which is the only independent statement about them found. No county is given anywhere, and without one no Irish register search can be anchored.