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John Grady
Dates not recorded
John Grady is named as the father of Mary Grady on her 1876 Queensland death registration. He is the earliest-born person in this whole archive by descent, and nothing about him is recorded but his name and that his daughter was born in County Limerick about 1800.
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John Grady is named as the father of Mary Grady on her 1876 Queensland death registration. He is the earliest-born person in this whole archive by descent, and nothing about him is recorded but his name and that his daughter was born in County Limerick about 1800.
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Life
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Places listed on this page
- Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
- Ireland
- Queens, New York City, New York
- County Limerick, Ireland
- County Limerick, Ireland
- Ipswich General Cemetery, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia Cemetery or burial place
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What the records say
1 record transcribed.
Record exhibit
Mary Grady Hickey memorial and Queensland death registration
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Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
Mary Grady Hickey, born 1800 County Limerick, Ireland; died 30 April 1876 at Ipswich, Queensland. Buried Ipswich General Cemetery, Roman Catholic B, plot unknown. Death registration 1876/C/1008, aged 70, father John Grady, mother Johanna Burns. Married William Hickey 1825.
Historical context
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What we still don't know
- Everything. He is a name on a death certificate written in Queensland about a woman who had left Ireland decades earlier.