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Margaret Leahey
This entry is about Margaret Leahey (about June 1913 – 20 May 1914). For other family members with the same first and family name, see Margaret Reilly Leahey (Dates not recorded).
about June 1913 – 20 May 1914
Margaret Leahey, infant daughter of James Leahey and Barbara Brennan, died at 83 West 12th Street in Bayonne on 20 May 1914, aged eleven months; her cause of death is unknown.
Proved by a record
Margaret Leahey was the infant daughter of James D. Leahey and Barbara Brennan; she died at their Bayonne home on 20 May 1914, aged eleven months.
Born at Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey Died at Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey
How is this person related?
Andrew John Leahey’s grandparent's sibling
Gina D. Cacace’s spouse's grandparent's sibling (by marriage)
Abigail Ann Leahey’s great-grandparent's sibling
Marie C. Fitzgerald’s spouse's parent's sibling (by marriage)
Kevin Leahey’s parent's sibling
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:
Margaret Leahey is your grandparent’s sibling.
Life
Margaret Leahey is documented in the funeral register as "Margaret | Leahey … 05/20/1914 | 83 W 12th St. … James/US | Barbara Brennan/US … Aged 11m, Born US." That entry establishes her parents, household, age, and date of death. It does not give her exact date of birth or her cause of death.
Her father James died at the same address twelve days later, on 1 June 1914. The cause of death for both Margaret and James is still unknown. Their closeness in time raises an understandable question, but it does not prove an accident, epidemic, or shared illness.
The 1912 Sanborn map, sheet 37 (external address omitted for offline reading) gives the address a physical shape: lot 83 held a yellow building marked "2½" and "D", a small two-and-a-half-storey wooden dwelling. A relative can now picture the kind of house in which Margaret spent her short life, while the map documents the building in 1912 rather than the family's occupancy before 1914.
The exact answer about both deaths survives offline in the New Jersey State Archives series "Death Certificates and Indexes, 1878–1946," alphabetical reel "394 1914: Kin - Lom" (external address omitted for offline reading), which covers Leahey. The state health report's "MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY TABLE FOR HUDSON COUNTY ... BY SANITARY DISTRICTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING OCTOBER 31, 1914" tabulates typhoid, diphtheria, scarlet fever and tuberculosis for Bayonne. That published city-wide table makes the epidemic question researchable, but it names no person and supplies no cause for Margaret or James.
How we know this: The funeral register documents Margaret's parents, address, age, and death date. Her cause of death remains unknown; no cause is inferred from the city-wide health report. [1][2]
Death and burial
Evidence distinction: [RECORD] means text read from the photographed stone. [COMPILED] means volunteer-typed memorial information and is only a lead.
Find a Grave memorial 184191548
Why this memorial is attached
Matched by exact death date, approximate age, and named parents James and Barbara. Find a Grave memorial 184191548 (findagrave.com).
20 May 1914 | Parents James Dennis Leahey 1886–1914; Barbara Brennan Leahey Murphy 1886–1961
[COMPILED] Volunteer-typed memorial fields
These fields are leads, not civil or church records, and do not replace documented dates. Find a Grave memorial 184191548 (findagrave.com).
Name: Margaret Leahey Birth: Jun 1913 Death: 20 May 1914 (aged 10–11 months) Cemetery: Holy Name Cemetery and Mausoleum, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA Plot: Blk-Y Sec-F Gr-69 1E Family links: Parents: James Dennis Leahey 1886–1914; Barbara Brennan Leahey Murphy 1886–1961. Siblings: Catherine C Leahey Chambers 1905–1970; John Joseph Leahey 1907–1980; George Edward Leahey 1909–1983; James Francis Leahey 1911–1983; Marian Catherine Murphy 1916–1977; William Henry Murphy 1917–1997.
Photograph status: a cemetery-area photograph was downloaded, but it is not a readable headstone record for this person. Find a Grave memorial 184191548 (findagrave.com).
[RECORD] No readable inscription for this person is visible in the fetched photograph.
The photograph is an area view; no marker for Margaret is visible. Find a Grave memorial 184191548 (findagrave.com).
Family
Parents
Siblings · birth order
See this family in the family treeWhere they lived
- 1914: Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey
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Places listed on this page
- Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey
- Holy Name Cemetery, Jersey City Cemetery or burial place
- New Jersey
- Holy Name Cemetery, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey Cemetery or burial place
- United States
- Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey
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The pins show approximate places. The line only joins them in time order; it does not prove the route travelled. 2 of the places listed above are recorded only as a county or country, so they are not pinned. Cemetery and burial places have red pins.
Images of these addresses and sites
Insurance maps show a historical footprint, while recent street photographs show the site today. A recent view is not proof that the family’s building survives.
Historical insurance map, 1912 — a footprint or site plan, not a photograph.
Building survival: not established by this map.
Credit: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Sanborn Maps Collection. Cropped from sheet 37.
Licence: Public domain
Timeline
Died
The funeral register records Margaret's death at 83 West 12th Street, names James Leahey and Barbara Brennan as her parents, and says she was eleven months old. It gives no cause of death. [1]
Proved by a record
Original records
FamilySearch Holy Name Cemetery card index, 1849–1984
An index is a list that points to where the full record can be found. It matters on this page because it records information connected with Margaret Leahey.
The full file is not saved on this site.
Original source (familysearch.org)
Tap to open a larger copy1912 Sanborn map: 83 West 12th Street, Bayonne
This old record gives information about the person or family named here. It matters on this page because it records information connected with Margaret Leahey.
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Original source (tile.loc.gov)
Credit: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Sanborn Maps Collection. Cropped from sheet 37. Licence: Public domain
What the records say
2 records transcribed.
Record exhibit
Dempsey 1914–1918
This old record gives information about the person or family named here.
Proved by a record
Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
James | Leahey | ... | 06/01/1914 | 83 W 12th St. | ... | John/US | Margaret Mahoney/US | HCCC | Aged 28y, Born US, Married, Occupation train operator, Buried in Block N, Letter A, N. 20154. | Margaret | Leahey | ... | 05/20/1914 | 83 W 12th St. | ... | James/US | Barbara Brennan/US | HCCC | Aged 11m, Born US. | Hanorah | Hedley | ... | 12/04/1917 | 23 W 8th St. | ...Show the full recordHide the full recordFull record, about 250 words
| Dennis Leahey/Ire | Ann Galvin/Ire | HCCC | Aged 38y, Born US, Married, Ordered by John Hedley. | Block N, Letter A, N. 20154, | Blk-D Sec-A Gr-74 1B | Owen/Ire | Bridget Jones/Ire | Owen/Ire | Bridget Jones/Ire | James | Leahey | John/US | Margaret Mahoney/US | Aged 28y, Born US, Married, Occupation train operator, Buried in Block N, Letter A, N. 20154 | James/US | Barbara Brennan/US | James/US | Barbara Brennan/US | Aged 28y, Born US, Married, Occupation train operator | Aged 28y | Occupation train operator | James | Leahey | John/US | Margaret Mahoney/US | James | Leahey | ... | 06/01/1914 | 83 W 12th St. | ... | John/US | Margaret Mahoney/US | HCCC | Aged 28y, Born US, Married, Occupation train operator, Buried in Block N, Letter A, N. 20154. | Margaret | Leahey | ... | 05/20/1914 | 83 W 12th St. | ... | James/US | Barbara Brennan/US | HCCC | Aged 11m, Born US. | James | Leahey | ... | 06/01/1914 | 83 W 12th St. | ... | John/US | Margaret Mahoney/US | HCCC | Aged 28y, Born US, Married, Occupation train operator, Buried in Block N, Letter A, N. 20154. | Margaret | Leahey | ... | 05/20/1914 | 83 W 12th St. | ... | James/US | Barbara Brennan/US | HCCC | Aged 11m, Born US. | Margaret | Leahey | James/US | Barbara Brennan/US | Aged 11m, Born US | CHIL | June 10 - 1886 | Patrick Powers | Margaret | Leahey | James/US | Barbara Brennan/US
Record exhibit
Find a Grave memorial 184191548 and grave-area photograph
This old record gives information about the person or family named here.
Partly proved
Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
Margaret Leahey | Jun 1913 | 20 May 1914 (aged 10–11 months) | Holy Name Cemetery and Mausoleum, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA | Blk-Y Sec-F Gr-69 1E | 20 May 1914 | Parents James Dennis Leahey 1886–1914; Barbara Brennan Leahey Murphy 1886–1961 | Family links: Parents: James Dennis Leahey 1886–1914; Barbara Brennan Leahey Murphy 1886–1961. Siblings: Catherine C Leahey Chambers 1905–1970; John Joseph Leahey 1907–1980; George Edward Leahey 1909–1983; James Francis Leahey 1911–1983; Marian Catherine Murphy 1916–1977; William Henry Murphy 1917–1997. | The photograph is an area view; no marker for Margaret is visible.
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…
A Train Operator in Bayonne, 1914
James D. Leahey’s funeral entry records a compact working life: married, American-born, age twenty-eight, living at 83 West 12th Street in Bayonne, occupation “train operator.” He died on 1 June 1914, twelve da…
What we still don't know
- Obtain Margaret's full death certificate from New Jersey State Archives reel 394, "1914: Kin - Lom," to learn her cause of death.
- Obtain James's certificate from the same reel and compare the two; their deaths twelve days apart must remain an open question until both records are read.
- What was Margaret's exact date of birth and burial location?