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John Hickey
This entry is about John Hickey (4 October 1896 – 1966). For other family members with the same first and family name, see John Hickey (4 August 1866 – 4 December 1955), John Joseph Hickey (about 1836 – 18 July 1906), John Joseph Hickey (20 January 1890 – 25 May 1975), John Thomas Hickey (about 1898 – 1971).
4 October 1896 – 1966
John Francis Hickey was born about 1896 in Queensland, a child of John Hickey and Sarah Jane Slack, and a grandchild of John Hickey of Limerick Junction. John died in 1966, aged about 70.
Partly proved
John Hickey was reportedly born on 4 October 1896 to John Hickey and Sarah Jane Slack, but he remains an unresolved Queensland family-tree entry.
Recorded as: John Francis Hickey
Birth: From our family tree - no record found yet
How is this person related?
Andrew John Leahey’s second cousin twice removed
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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:
John Hickey is your second cousin, 2 times removed.
Life
Our family tree records John Hickey was born on 4 October 1896 to John Hickey and Sarah Jane Slack and assigns him a son named Frank Hickey. No quoted birth or relationship record confirms those claims.
An Ipswich cemetery transcription records a John Hickey who died on 25 May 1975 aged 85. That age points to a birth around 1889–1890, not 1896, so the entry cannot be assigned to this John without further evidence; it may describe his father, another relative, or an unrelated man. Nothing else is currently known about his life.
How we know this: Very weak evidence; his details are recorded here without supporting documents, and the available cemetery namesake does not fit the reported birth year. [1][2][3]
Family
Parents
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Places listed on this page
- Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
- Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Queens, New York City, New York
- Walloon, Queensland, Australia
- South Brisbane Cemetery, Dutton Park, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Cemetery or burial place
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Timeline
Born
An unresolved Queensland family-tree entry, reportedly born 4 October 1896 to John Hickey and Sarah Jane Slack. [1]
The record itself
Third-party cemetery database page
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Original records
1 further record is shown in the timeline, beside the event each one documents.
What the records say
3 records transcribed.
Record exhibit
Australian Cemeteries, Ipswich Roman Catholic 3A
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 | Thomas J. | | 4/07/1957 | 79. | HICKEY | Thomas J. | | 4/07/1957 | 79. | HICKEY | John | | 25/05/1975 | 85. | HICKEY | John | | 25/05/1975 | 85. | McGUIRE | William J. | | 14/11/1960 | 56. | McGUIRE | William J. | | 14/11/1960 | 56. | HICKEY | John | | 25-May-1975 | 85,
Record exhibit
BloodTree GEDCOM — Queensland Hickey family
This old record gives information about the person or family named here.
Partly proved
Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
Frank /Hickey/ ... FAMC @F4026380613990011155@; HUSB @I753731@ John /Hickey/ born 4 AUG 1866; WIFE @I1001168@ Sarah Jane /Slack/ born 20 NOV 1862; MARR 22 JAN 1890 Ipswich, Queensland, Australia; John Francis Hickey born 4 OCT 1896 is another CHIL in the same family.
Record exhibit
John Hickey (1866-1955) memorial, South Brisbane Cemetery
This old record gives information about the person or family named here.
Partly proved
Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
John Hickey, born 4 August 1866 at Walloon; died 4 December 1955 at Brisbane, aged 89; buried South Brisbane Cemetery, Dutton Park, plot L. Gravesite note: "89y; h/Sarah Jane". Spouse Sarah Jane Slack 1862-1948, married 1890. Eight children.
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
- Whether the 4 October 1896 birth and reported parents are correct
- Whether Frank Hickey was his son
- Whether the 1975 cemetery entry concerns a relative or an unrelated man
- His later life and death
- Search Queensland civil births around 4 October 1896 under Hickey without a forename and obtain the 1975 John Hickey death registration before deciding whether that cemetery entry is a father, another relative, or unrelated.
- [CORRECTED] The former Frank-child edge was a compiled data error. The GEDCOM places both men as children of John Hickey (born 1866) and Sarah Jane Slack; obtain civil records to prove the sibling relationship.
- Dates come from the family's Find a Grave memorials rather than the Queensland register.
- [MERGED 7 August 2026] This person had been entered twice — as `john-hickey-1896` and as `john-francis-hickey-1896` — 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.