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Ellen McGuire
8 September 1889 – 23 February 1985
Ellen McGuire was born about 1889 at Ipswich, Queensland, a child of James McGuire and Margaret Ellen Hickey, and a grandchild of John Hickey of Limerick Junction. She married a Jones and is recorded under that name. Ellen died in 1985, aged about 96.
Partly proved
Ellen McGuire appears only in the family tree as a daughter of James McGuire and Margaret Ellen Hickey, reportedly living from 1889 to 1985.
Recorded as: Ellen McGuire Jones
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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:
Ellen McGuire is your second cousin, 2 times removed.
Life
Our family tree lists Ellen McGuire as a daughter of James McGuire and Margaret Ellen Hickey, born on 8 September 1889 and dead on 23 February 1985. No original record in this archive confirms those dates or relationships. An Ipswich cemetery result giving an unnamed person's age as 71 and death as 21 May 1940 does not identify Ellen and cannot support her entry. Nothing further is currently known about her.
How we know this: These details are recorded here without supporting documents; the additional cemetery search result does not identify Ellen. [1][2][3]
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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
8 Sep 1889
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Died
23 Feb 1985
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Original records
Ipswich cemetery record, Ellen McGuire
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What the records say
3 records transcribed.
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City of Ipswich EverAfter
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Age 71 years, | Date of Death 21 May 1940,
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Queensland Times funeral notices for Margaret Ellen McGuire, 18 June 1928
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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.
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Margaret Ellen Hickey McGuire memorial, Ipswich General Cemetery
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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 Queensland birth record confirm her parents and date?
- Did she marry and die under another surname?
- Can a death record support the reported 1985 date?
- Find a marriage under which she may have died in 1985; search Queensland deaths by parents rather than maiden surname.
- 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 Jones.
- [MERGED 7 August 2026] This person had been entered twice — as `ellen-mcguire-1889` and as `ellen-mcguire-jones-1889` — 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.