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Thomas Francis Meaney

This entry is about Thomas Francis Meaney (19 November 1849 – 23 November 1917). For other family members with the same first and family name, see Thomas Meaney.

19 November 1849 – 23 November 1917

Thomas Francis Meaney was born at Hamilton, Bermuda, on 19 November 1849 — the only person in this archive born there, and the fact is confirmed by two censuses as well as his headstone. He was in Jersey City by 1860, aged eleven. He married Catherine about 1869 or 1870 and their children were raised in Bayonne. He died at Bayonne on 23 November 1917, four days after his sixty-eighth birthday, and lies at Holy Name Cemetery in block D, section C, grave 94, with Catherine beside him in the same grave twenty years later.

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Thomas Francis Meaney was born at Hamilton, Bermuda, on 19 November 1849 — the only person in this archive born there, and the fact is confirmed by two censuses as well as his headstone. He was in Jersey City by 1860, aged eleven. He married Catherine about 1869 or 1870 and their children were raised in Bayonne. He died at Bayonne on 23 November 1917, four days after his sixty-eighth birthday, and lies at Holy Name Cemetery in block D, section C, grave 94, with Catherine beside him in the same grave twenty years later.

Born at Hamilton, Bermuda Died at Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey

How is this person related?

Andrew John Leahey’s no single word covers it — connected through Dennis C. Leahey, who is a great-great-grandparent's sibling

Worked out from the recorded parents and marriages. No sex is recorded for anyone in this archive, so the wording stays neutral.

Life

A written life story has not been added for this person yet.

References for this account: [1][2][3][4]

Family

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Where they lived

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Places listed on this page

  • Hamilton, Bermuda
  • Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey
  • Holy Name Cemetery, Jersey City Cemetery or burial place
  • New Jersey
  • Ireland
  • New York
  • Holy Name Cemetery, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey Cemetery or burial place
  • United States
  • Brooklyn, New York City, New York
  • Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey

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Aged eleven in Jersey City

Fourth Ward of Jersey City, page 144, entered as Thos F Meaney, 11, born Bermuda. The household also holds James Meaney 25 and Mary Meaney 25, both born Ireland, Agness Meaney 1 born New York, and Margaret Meaney 60 born Ireland. **James and Mary are far too young to be his parents** — they would have been fourteen — so this is not his parents' household, or the ages are badly wrong. Margaret at 60 could be a grandmother and James an uncle or an older brother. Nothing here is attached.

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Married Catherine

The 1900 census records the marriage as 1870; his memorial says 1869. Both are kept.

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Died at Bayonne

Aged 68. Buried Holy Name Cemetery, block D, section C, grave 94, position 1B.

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What the records say

4 records transcribed.

Record exhibit

Catherine Elizabeth Meaney Leahy memorial, Holy Name Cemetery

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Catherine Elizabeth Meaney Leahy, born 13 November 1871 at Brooklyn, Kings County, New York; died 16 August 1939 at Bayonne; buried Holy Name Cemetery, plot Blk-F Sec-JA Gr-38 1E. Parents Thomas Francis Meaney 1849-1917 and Catherine Meaney d.1937. Spouse Matthew Sylvester Leahy 1866-1934, married 1888. Sibling Ann Meaney Leahey 1875-1894. Children: Dennis C 1890-1968, Catherine Elizabeth Quinlan 1893-1940, Anna Estelle McNelis 1895-1964, Ellen Teresa 1897-1933, Helena Veronica 1900-1900, Thomas F 1902-1906, Bertha Marie Blackwood 1905-1953, Jean Cecilia Leary 1907-1981.

Record exhibit

Thomas Francis Meaney memorial, Holy Name Cemetery

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Thomas Francis Meaney, born 19 November 1849 at Hamilton, Bermuda; died 23 November 1917 at Bayonne; buried Holy Name Cemetery, Blk-D Sec-C Gr-94 1B. Married Catherine 1869. Catherine Meaney d. June 1937, buried Blk-D Sec-C Gr-94 1C.

Record exhibit

Thos F. Meaney, 1860 United States census, Jersey City 4th Ward

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Fourth Ward of Jersey City, page 144. Thos F Meaney, 11, born Bermuda. Others on the record: James Meaney 25 Ireland, Mary Meaney 25 Ireland, Agness Meaney 1 New York, Margaret Meaney 60 Ireland.

Record exhibit

Thomas F. Meaney household, 1900 United States census, Hudson County

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Hudson County, New Jersey. Thomas F Meaney, born November 1849 in Bermuda, married 1870; wife Catharine E Meaney; children Daniel, Thomas, James, Richard, Caroline.

Historical context

These background articles explain the places, work, and events in this entry.

Bayonne and the Industrial Waterfront, 1870–1920

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What Sponsors and Witnesses Can Tell Us

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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

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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

  • **His parents.** The 1860 census puts him at eleven in a Jersey City Meaney household, but the only adults in it are 25 and 60. He is not attached to any of them. What would settle it: the 1850 or 1855 census, a Bermuda baptism at Hamilton about November 1849, or his 1917 New Jersey death certificate.
  • **Why Bermuda?** Irish families reached Bermuda in the 1840s through the Royal Naval Dockyard and the garrison, and through the convict hulks. A Meaney born at Hamilton in 1849 who is in Jersey City by 1860 suggests a father in one of those, followed by a move on to America. This is context and a search direction, not a claim.
  • [CONFLICT] Marriage year 1869 (memorial) against 1870 (1900 census). Both retained.

References

  1. [1] Catherine Elizabeth Meaney Leahy memorial, Holy Name CemeteryBack to citation 1
  2. [2] Thomas Francis Meaney memorial, Holy Name CemeteryBack to citation 2
  3. [3] Thos F. Meaney, 1860 United States census, Jersey City 4th WardBack to citation 3
  4. [4] Thomas F. Meaney household, 1900 United States census, Hudson CountyBack to citation 4

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