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Mary McGreevy
1895 – 1986
Mary McGreevy was born about 1895 at Ipswich, Queensland, a child of Peter McGreevy and Mary Ann Hickey, and a grandchild of John Hickey of Limerick Junction. She married a Hoare and is recorded under that name. Mary died in 1986, and was one of the seven of nine children who lived to old age.
Partly proved
Mary McGreevy appears only in the family tree as a daughter of Peter McGreevy and Mary Ann Hickey, reportedly born in 1895.
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:
Mary McGreevy is your second cousin, 2 times removed.
Life
Our family tree lists Mary McGreevy as a daughter of Peter McGreevy and Mary Ann Hickey, born in 1895. No original birth, baptism, marriage, death, or residence record in this archive confirms her identity, and nothing else is currently known about her.
How we know this: These details are recorded here, but not yet supported by a document. [1]
Family
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Places listed on this page
- Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
- Queens, New York City, New York
- Ipswich General Cemetery, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia Cemetery or burial place
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Timeline
Born
Listed in our family tree as a daughter of Peter McGreevy and Mary Ann Hickey, born 1895.
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What the records say
1 record transcribed.
Record exhibit
Mary Ann Hickey McGreevy memorial, Ipswich General 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.
Mary Ann Hickey McGreevy, born 6 October 1862, City of Ipswich, Queensland; died 20 January 1934, Ipswich; buried Ipswich General Cemetery, Roman Catholic 2A, Row 7, Grave 43. Parents John Hickey and Ellen Condon. Spouse Peter McGreevy 1861-1941, married 1886. Nine 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
- Can a Queensland birth or baptism record confirm her identity and parents?
- Did she marry and appear later under another surname?
- When and where did she die?
- Search Queensland birth indexes with parents Peter/Mary and all McGreavy spellings; then search marriage indexes because she likely appears later under a married 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 gives only the surname Hoare.
- [MERGED 7 August 2026] This person had been entered twice — as `mary-mcgreevy-1895` and as `mary-mcgreevy-hoare-1895` — 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.