Person in this family
May Frances McGreevy
about 1893 – 1981
May Frances McGreevy was born about 1893 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. May died in 1981, and was one of the seven of nine children who lived to old age.
Proved by a record
May Hoare is proposed in the family tree as a McGreevy daughter born on 4 March 1893, but no direct record names her.
Born at Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Recorded as: May Hoare
How is this person related?
Andrew John Leahey’s second cousin twice removed
Gina D. Cacace’s spouse's second cousin twice removed (by marriage)
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:
May Frances McGreevy is your second cousin, 2 times removed.
Life
Our family tree proposes that May Hoare was a daughter of Peter McGreevy and Mary Ann Hickey, born on 4 March 1893 and later known by the surname Hoare. No birth or marriage record in this archive confirms her identity.
An Ipswich cemetery transcription places the McGreevys and Hoares near one another. It records Sarah Ellen as "Daughter of P. & M. McGREEVY Buried with Jack HOARE," while search text elsewhere on the cemetery site includes the name "May Hoare." These are collateral clues, not a record that names May as Peter and Mary's daughter or explains how she acquired the Hoare surname. Nothing further is currently known about her.
How we know this: This relationship is recorded here, but it has only indirect support from an ambiguous cemetery transcription. [1][2][3]
Family
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See this family in the family treeWhere they lived
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Places listed on this page
- Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
- Queens, New York City, New York
- Ireland
- France
- Ipswich General Cemetery, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia Cemetery or burial place
- County Tipperary, Ireland
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Timeline
Born
4 Mar 1893
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Original records
Third-party cemetery database page
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What the records say
3 records transcribed.
Record exhibit
Mary Ann Hickey McGreevy memorial, Ipswich General Cemetery
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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.
Record exhibit
Australian Cemeteries, Ipswich Roman Catholic B
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Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
HICKEY | John | … | 25-Sep-1885 | 29 | County Tipperary, Ireland | McGREEVY | Sarah Ellen | | 7-May-1897 | 8 | Daughter of P. & M. McGREEVY Buried with Jack HOARE. | McGREEVY | Sarah Ellen | | 7-May-1897 | 8 | Daughter of P. & M. McGREEVY Buried with Jack HOARE. | Daughter of P. & M. McGREEVY. | McGREEVY | Sarah Ellen | | 7-May-1897 | 8 | Daughter of P. & M. McGREEVY Buried with Jack HOARE.Show the full recordHide the full recordFull record, about 100 words
| McGREEVY | Sarah Ellen | | 7-May-1897 | 8 | Daughter of P. & M. McGREEVY Buried with Jack HOARE. | McGREEVY | Sarah Ellen | | 7-May-1897 | 8 | Daughter of P. & M. McGREEVY Buried with Jack HOARE | HOARE Buried with Sarah Ellen McGREEVY & M. HOARE. | McGREEVY | Sarah Ellen | | 7-May-1897 | 8 | Daughter of P. & M. McGREEVY Buried with Jack HOARE
Record exhibit
Australian Cemeteries, Ipswich Roman Catholic 4A
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Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
HOARE | John Thomas | 20Nov1898 | 3-Mar-1967 | 77 | s/- William Hickey & Ellen Shea. | HOARE | John Thomas | 20Nov1898 | 3-Mar-1967 | 77 | s/- William Hickey & Ellen Shea. | HICKEY | Cecilia Anne | | 27-Oct-1985 | 79. | HICKEY | Cecilia Anne | | 27-Oct-1985 | 79. | HOARE | John Thomas | 20Nov1898 | 3-Mar-1967 | 77 | s/- William Hickey & Ellen Shea. | HOARE | John Thomas | 20Nov1898 | 3-Mar-1967 | 77 | s/- William Hickey & Ellen Shea.Show the full recordHide the full recordFull record, about 100 words
| HICKEY | Patrick James | | 7-Jan-1969 | 70. | HICKEY | Patrick James | | 7-Jan-1969 | 70. | McGREEVY | Patrick J. | | 7-Apr-1966 | 75. | McGREEVY | Alma I. | | 10-May-1973 | 77 | McGREEVY | Patrick J. | | 7-Apr-1966 | 75. | McGREEVY | Alma I. | | 10-May-1973 | 77 | May Hoare | HOARE | John Thomas | 20Nov1898 | 3-Mar-1967 | 77. | HARTFIEL | Bridget Monica | | 21-Aug-1982 | 80. | HARTFIEL | William | | 28-Sep-1965 | 63. | HARTFIEL | Bridget Monica | | 21-Aug-1982 | 80. | HARTFIEL | William | | 28-Sep-1965 | 63.
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…
Reading Irish Civil Registration
The year 1864 is the dividing line in this family’s Irish paper trail. Civil registration began in 1845 for non-Catholic and civil marriages, but from 1 January 1864 the law required registration of all births,…
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
- Does a Queensland birth record support 4 March 1893?
- What is the complete wording of the McGreevy–Hoare grave inscription?
- Was Hoare her married surname, and if so whom did she marry?
- [A BURIAL THAT WAS HER SISTER'S] This page carried a "Buried, May 1897" event. The cemetery row it quotes is Sarah Ellen McGreevy's — "7-May-1897 | 8 | Daughter of P. & M. McGREEVY Buried with Jack HOARE" — and Sarah Ellen is separately in this archive, having died of burns at eight years old. The row was cited here because "Buried with Jack HOARE" is the only thing linking these McGreevys to a Hoare, which is the whole basis for May's married surname. A collateral clue had been rendered as her own burial. The event is removed; the clue survives as a clue, and May died in 1981.
- [MERGED, 8 August 2026] She was here twice, as May Frances McGreevy and as May Hoare, both daughters of Peter McGreevy and Mary Ann Hickey born about 1893. Hoare is the married surname, and the two records were the maiden and married halves of one woman. The 4 March 1893 birth date comes from the family tree and no record confirms it; the Ipswich cemetery evidence linking McGreevys and Hoares is collateral, not a record naming her as their daughter.
- 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.