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Mary Mullins Leahey
Born April 1873; death not recorded
Mary Mullins was born in New Jersey in April 1873 and married James J. Leahey in 1890, when she was seventeen. Eight children are recorded. The 1900 census finds five of them at home in Hudson County — James, Agnes, **Mary**, John and William. She had died before 1930, when the census enters her husband as a widower with all seven surviving children still living under his roof.
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Mary Mullins was born in New Jersey in April 1873 and married James J. Leahey in 1890, when she was seventeen. Eight children are recorded. The 1900 census finds five of them at home in Hudson County — James, Agnes, **Mary**, John and William. She had died before 1930, when the census enters her husband as a widower with all seven surviving children still living under his roof.
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Recorded as: Mary Mullins
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- New Jersey
- Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey
- Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey
- Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York
- Holy Name Cemetery, Jersey City Cemetery or burial place
- New York
- Holy Name Cemetery, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey Cemetery or burial place
- United States
- 135 West Ninth Street, Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey
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Hudson County, five children at home
Born April 1873 in New Jersey, married ten years. The children entered with her are James, Agnes, Mary, John and William.
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Predeceased husband
James Leahey’s obituary identifies him as the husband of the late Mary Mullins; her exact death date is not established. [1]
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What the records say
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“James Leahey Dies at Residence”
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James Leahey, of 135 W. 9th St., a Bayonne resident for the past 70 years, died yesterday at his home after a short illness. Mr. Leahey was a parishioner of St. Mary's Church and a member of the Bayonne Exempt Firemen's Association. He was born in Syracuse, N. Y. The husband of the late Mary Mullins, he is survived by three sons, James, Jr., John and Fire Capt. William Leahey;Show the full recordHide the full recordFull record, about 150 words
four daughters, the Misses Agnes, Dorothy and Anna and Mrs. Edwin Hendrickson; three brothers, Dennis, Malachi and Peter; a sister, Miss Catherine Leahey, and a grandchild. The funeral will be held Monday morning from the home, and a solemn high requiem mass will be offered at 10 o'clock in St. Mary's Church. Interment will be in Holy Name Cemetery, Jersey City.
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Mary Leahey in the 1900 United States census, Hudson County
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Hudson County, New Jersey, 1900. Mary Leahey, born April 1873 in New Jersey, married 1890; spouse James Leahey; children James, Agnes, Mary, John, William.
Historical context
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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…
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…
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 Mary Mullins Leahey’s death, marriage and burial records; the supplied obituary establishes only that she predeceased James.
- Her death, which falls between 1900 and 1930 — she is in the first census and her husband is a widower in the second. A New Jersey death record for a Mary Leahey of Bayonne in those years would date it.
- [UNPLACED CHILD] The 1900 census lists a daughter **Mary** who is not among the seven children this archive holds from the family's obituaries, and who is not in the 1930 household. She either died between the two censuses or married and left before 1930. She is deliberately **not** entered as a separate person yet, since she may be the daughter recorded here only as *Mrs Edwin Hendrickson*.