Person in this family
Michael Shea
Dates not recorded
Michael Shea was a farmer at Fahan, Ventry, and the father of Mary O'Shea. He is known from one line on his daughter's 1932 marriage register, where he is entered as deceased — so he died before February 1932. Nothing else about him is yet recorded.
Proved by a record
Michael Shea was a farmer at Fahan, Ventry, and the father of Mary O'Shea. He is known from one line on his daughter's 1932 marriage register, where he is entered as deceased — so he died before February 1932. Nothing else about him is yet recorded.
Recorded as: Michael O'Shea
How is this person related?
Andrew John Leahey’s no relationship found in this archive
Gina D. Cacace’s no relationship found in this archive
Abigail Ann Leahey’s no relationship found in this archive
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Kevin Leahey’s no relationship found in this archive
Worked out from the recorded parents and marriages. No sex is recorded for anyone in this archive, so the wording stays neutral.
Life
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Family
Children
See this family in the family treeWork and occupation
- Farmer
Where they lived
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Places listed on this page
- Ventry, County Kerry, Ireland
- Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland
- County Kerry, Ireland
- Fahan, Ventry, County Kerry, Ireland
- County Kerry, Ireland
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What the records say
1 record transcribed.
Record exhibit
John Fitzgerald and Mary O'Shea marriage, St Mary's Dingle, 2 February 1932
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.
Marriage No. 232, 2 February 1932, Roman Catholic Church of St Mary's Dingle, Union of Dingle, County Kerry. John Fitzgerald, full age, bachelor, farmer, residence Fahan Ventry, father John Fitzgerald, farmer. Mary Shea, full age, spinster, farmer, residence Fahan Ventry, father Michael Shea (deceased), farmer. Witnesses Thomas Garvey and Elizabeth O'Shea. Signed John Fitzgerald and Mary O'Shea.
Historical context
These background articles explain the places, work, and events in this entry.
What Sponsors and Witnesses Can Tell Us
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Farmers and Labourers in North Cork
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What we still don't know
- His death, which the 1932 register places before February 1932 but does not date. Irish death records for Dingle would settle it.
- Whether Elizabeth O'Shea, who witnessed the marriage, was another of his daughters.