PATRICK SHEEHY
When Timothy Sheehy married Anne Deasy on 31 January 1864, his father is named on the civil certificate as Patrick Deasy of Ballintemple. There are marriage records for three men named Patrick Deasy within the time constraints of him having a son of marriageable age and within the four parishes of Ardfield and Rathbarry, Barryroe (Lislee), Clonakilty (Darrara) and Timoleague. These are in Church records only because civil registration only came into force in 1864, the year his son, Timothy, married.
There is no church birth record at all in the parishes of Barryroe (Lislee), Clonakilty (Darrara) or Timoleague for a Timothy Sheehy within the time constraints, having searched for ten years either side of the likely date of his birth, given that the marriage certificate states he was 28 years of age.
It is possible that the priest recording the groom’s father’s name entered it incorrectly, bearing in mind that the marriage was taking place in the bride’s parish not the groom’s.
Unfortunately, I think all avenues of enquiry have been exhausted and it will not be possible to establish who Timothy Sheehy or his parents were.
Timothy Sheehy (1)
Timothy Sheehy (1), son of Patrick Sheehy (Ballintemple) married Anne Deasy (Lehina) married Timothy Sheehy on 21 January, 1864.
The civil marriage certificate states that the groom was 28 years of age. That would give a birth year of 1836. The bride, Anne Deasy is stated to be 24 years of age, which would give a birth year of 1840.
Having searched the parish records of Barryroe (Lislee), Timoleague, Clonakilty (Darrara) and Rathbarry, no entry for a Timothy Sheehy has been found between the years 1820 to 1845. As he married in 1864, this would seem to be a reasonable search. Civil registration had not come into force at this time and it appears that for some reason unknown, Timothy’s baptism was not registered.
Timothy Sheehy (1) died on 29 January, 1893. On his death certificate his age is given as 54 years of age, which would give him a birth year of 1839. This is a three year discrepancy from that given on his marriage certificate. His wife, Anne, was present when Timothy died of T.B. They lived at Templebryan, Clonakilty, at the time of his death. He was described as a labourer. This may be significant as he was described as a farmer on his marriage certificate, a dairyman on the birth certificates of his first six children and a farmer on that of his seventh child. This may suggest uncertainty in his social status and may (I stress may) explain how is son Maurice and daughter Minnie were included on a list of persons who lodged applications with the Estates Commissioners as the representatives of an evicted tenant.
This theory is, I believe, supported by the fact that over the period when the couple’s seven children were born, Timothy and Anne Sheehy lived at six different locations, Ballymacowen, Chapel Street (Clonakilty), Ballinroher, Lehinagh (Lehina), Carrigrour (Desert) and Ballintemple. This constant change of address would appear to be an indication of the uncertainty of tenure under which Timothy Sheehy (1) laboured to support a large family.
TIMOTHY SHEEHY (2)
John Deasy (Lehina) married Honoria Sexton (Lehina)
Their daughter: Anne Deasy (Lehina) married Timothy Sheehy, son of Patrick Sheehy, Ballintemple (Lackenduv) 21/1/1864
They had seven children, Timothy (2), born 14/4/1866; Mary, born 16/11/1867; Anne born 11/4/1870; Margaret born 30/7/1871; John, born 6/10/1873; Maurice, born 5/3/1877 and Edward born 7/1/1881.
Timothy Sheehy (2) was born at Ballymacowen, Kilnagross, in the parish of Kilgarriff Clonakilty on 14 April 1866. His father is described as a Dairyman.
Timothy Sheehy (2) married Annie Pearce on 25 December 1891. He is described as 25 years old and a Carman (journeyman) and he lived at 12, Bull Court, Tooley Street. Annie Pearce was 26 years old and lived at 4, Maze Pond, Southwark. She had no occupation listed. Her father, Garrett, Muro Pearce is described as an ex Police Inspector. The marriage took place in the Catholic Church of Our Lady of La Salette and St. Joseph in the District of St. Olave, Southwark, London.
In 1901 Timothy Sheehy (2) was living at 214 Quinn Square, St. George the Martyr, Southwark, St. Saviour’s, Southwark, London.
He is described as 32 years old, born in 1869 (he was born in 1866) and was a general labourer. He was born in Ireland
His wife, Anne Sheehy (nee Pearce) was 39 years old (born 1862) and was a native of Southwark.
They had four children,
Timothy (3) aged 9 (1892); John aged 7 (1894); Annie aged 4 (1897) and Amelia M. aged 1 (1900)
In 1911 the family lived at 137 Bermondsey St. SE, Bermondsey, London.
Timothy (2) is now described as a Tea Blender and his year of birth as 1866 (correct) and was born in Cork, Ireland.
Their eldest son, Timothy (3) has left home, but there are two additional children
Minnie aged 3 (born 1908) and Nellie, aged under a year old, born 1911.
Timothy Sheehy (2) died in 1932 Aged 66 years. District of St. Olave, Southwark. Death quarter 2, Volume 1D, Page 120.
Mary (Minnie) Sheehy
Máire Ní Sithigh
John Deasy (Lehina) married Honoria Sexton (Lehina)
Their daughter: Anne Deasy (Lehina) married Timothy Sheehy, son of Patrick Sheehy, Ballintemple (Lackenduv) 21/1/1864
They had seven children, Timothy, born 14/4/1866; Mary, born 16/11/1867; Anne born 11/4/1870; Margaret born 30/7/1871; John, born 6/10/1873; Maurice, born 5/3/1877 and Edward born 7/1/1881.
When Mary Sheehy was born, 16 November, 1867, the family were living at Ballymacowen, Kilnagross. Her father was described as a Dairyman.
In the 1901 Census, Mary (Minnie) was living with her mother, Anne, and her brother, Maurice, at Ashgrove, Clonakilty.
In the 1911 Census, she and her brother, Maurice, were still living at Ashgrove, but it would appear that their mother, Anne, had died by that time. The Census form was completed in Irish and Mary (Máire) was described as ‘Scríbhnóir Gaelige) Irish authoress.
She married Denis O’Leary of 17 June 1915
Mary O’Leary (nee Sheehy) died on 13 July 1955 at Ballinamona, Courtmacsherry. She is described as a widow, aged 88 years and had suffered from Senile Decay. There was no doctor in attendance and her cousin Patrick Deasy was present when she died.
Anne Sheehy
John Deasy (Lehina) married Honoria Sexton (Lehina)
Their daughter: Anne Deasy (Lehina) married Timothy Sheehy, son of Patrick Sheehy, Ballintemple (Lackenduv) 21/1/1864
They had seven children, Timothy, born 14/4/1866; Mary, born 16/11/1867; Anne born 11/4/1870; Margaret born 30/7/1871; John, born 6/10/1873; Maurice, born 5/3/1877 and Edward born 7/1/1881.
Anne Sheehy was born on 11 April 1870 at Chapel Street, Clonakilty. Her father is described as a Dairyman.
Anne, (known as Annie), is likely to have been the Annie Sheehy, adult, single, servant, who left Queenstown for New York on board the liner Germanic on 30 April 1896.
Annie married Timothy J Donovan and lived in Ingram, Pennsylvania. No record of the marriage taking place in Ireland has been found so it is likely that she emigrated to the U.S. first and married there.
Annie died 15 July 1948 of cerebral thrombosis, myocarditis and pulmonary edema. She is described as widow of Timothy Donovan. Her address was 62, Admiral Dervey, Rural Ingram, Allen County, Pennsylvania. The informant of her death was L. T. Donovan, 15, Haldane St., Grafton, Pennsylvania.
It is believed she had three children, Daniel, Lawrence (informant above?) and Margaret.
Margaret Sheehy
John Deasy (Lehina) married Honoria Sexton (Lehina)
Their daughter: Anne Deasy (Lehina) married Timothy Sheehy, son of Patrick Sheehy, Ballintemple (Lackenduv) 21/1/1864
They had seven children, Timothy, born 14/4/1866; Mary, born 16/11/1867; Anne born 11/4/1870; Margaret born 30/7/1871; John, born 6/10/1873; Maurice, born 5/3/1877 and Edward born 7/1/1881.
Margaret Sheehy was born 30 July 1871 at Ballinroher, Kilnagross, Clonakilty. Her father is described as a Dairyman.
Margaret is likely to have been the Margaret Sheehy, aged 20, born in 1871, single, who boarded the liner Teutonic on 10 September 1891 at Queenstown, bound for New York.
Margaret Sheehy married John J. Quinn. No record of the marriage has been found so it is likely that they married after she emigrated to the U.S. She died on 8 January 1907 and her residence is given as 5137 Stanton Avenue, Ingram, Pennsylvania. Cause of death was Puerperal Septicaemia and Exhaustion – in other words, Margaret died aged 36 in childbirth
John Sheehy
John Deasy (Lehina) married Honoria Sexton (Lehina)
Their daughter: Anne Deasy (Lehina) married Timothy Sheehy, son of Patrick Sheehy, Ballintemple (Lackenduv) 21/1/1864
They had seven children, Timothy, born 14/4/1866; Mary, born 16/11/1867; Anne born 11/4/1870; Margaret born 30/7/1871; John, born 6/10/1873; Maurice, born 5/3/1877 and Edward born 7/1/1881.
John Sheehy emigrated from Ireland to England. In the 1901 Census he was living at Farleigh Court Cottages, Farleigh, Farley, Godstone, Surrey, England. The house was occupied by a family named Sivier, husband (a shepherd), wife, five children, a sister and three boarders. John Sheehy is one of the boarders. He was described as ‘labourer on farm’, born in Cork, Ireland and single.
John Sheehy, described as a general labourer, married Annie Ferguson on 8 May 1901 at Godstone, Surrey.
They were married in the Church of the Sacred Heart, Caterham. (There was a large army barracks at Caterham which may have been significant in John Sheehy’s life in the future) His address is given as Farleigh Cottages, Farleigh and his bride’s address is given as Fairchildes, Chelsham. Annie Ferguson’s father, John was a Farm Labourer.
By the time of the 1911 Census, John’s address was Chelsam Common, Whyteleafe, Surrey, Chelsham, Surrey, England. John Sheehy described himself as a farm labourer and gave his birthplace as Barryroe, Co. Cork. He gave his birth year as 1875 (in fact it was 1873). His wife, Annie Sheehy (nee Ferguson), was born in Addington, Surrey in 1874. The couple had three children listed; Patrick John, born in 1904 at Cudham in Kent, Kathleen Mary born in 1908 in Chelsham, Surrey and Maurice born in 1911 also at Chelsham.
John Sheehy enlisted in the British Army at Whitehall, Middlesex and gave his address as Warlingham, Surrey. He first served in the Royal Engineers with the service number 295029. Then he seems to have been transferred to the 709th Company, Labour Corps, Royal Engineers, and was assigned the service number 123551. His rank was Pioneer, a rank similar to a Sapper.
Historically, British infantry regiments maintained small units of pioneers for heavy work and engineering, especially for clearing paths through forests and for leading assaults on fortifications.
The Labour Corps was formed in 1917 and employed 325,000 British Troops, 98,000 Chinese, 10,000 Africans and at least 300,000 other labourers.
John Sheehy died of wounds on the Western Front 15 February 1918. His death certificate lists his original Service Number – 295029 - and he is described as a Private, aged forty-two, a member of the British Expeditionary Force and the cause of death is given as ‘Enemy Aircraft Bomb’. The British Expeditionary Force remained the official name of the British Army serving in France and Belgium throughout WW1.
He is buried in Ham British Cemetery, Muille-Violette, France. Grave Ref: I.B.14
Maurice Sheehy
John Deasy (Lehina) married Honoria Sexton (Lehina)
Their daughter: Anne Deasy (Lehina) married Timothy Sheehy, son of Patrick Sheehy, Ballintemple (Lackenduv) 21/1/1864
They had seven children, Timothy, born 14/4/1866; Mary, born 16/11/1867; Anne born 11/4/1870; Margaret born 30/7/1871; John, born 6/10/1873; Maurice, born 5/3/1877 and Edward born 7/1/1881.
Maurice Sheehy was born on 5 March 1877 at Carrigrour, Desert, Clonakilty and his father is described as a Dairyman.
In the 1901 Census, Maurice was living with his mother, Anne, and his sister Minnie (Mary) at Ashgrove, Clonakilty.
In the 1911 Census, Maurice and Minnie were still living at Ashgrove, Clonakilty, but their mother Anne, it would seem, had died by that time.
Maurice never married and lived with his sister Mary (Minnie) it is said until she married Denis O’Leary, after which ‘he lived elsewhere. It is also said that he had ‘a fondness for the drink’.
Maurice died on 2 October 1949 in the County Home, Clonakilty. He was 73 years old and the cause of death was given as cancer of the stomach.
Edward Sheehy
John Deasy (Lehina) married Honoria Sexton (Lehina)
Their daughter: Anne Deasy (Lehina) married Timothy Sheehy, son of Patrick Sheehy, Ballintemple (Lackenduv) 21/1/1864
They had seven children, Timothy, born 14/4/1866; Mary, born 16/11/1867; Anne born 11/4/1870; Margaret born 30/7/1871; John, born 6/10/1873; Maurice, born 5/3/1877 and Edward born 7/1/1881.
Edward Sheehy was born on 7 January 1881 at Ballintemple, Templemalus, Clonakilty. His father is described as a Farmer (not Dairyman as with the six previous children)
Edward is likely to have been the Edward Sheehy who emigrated from Queenstown to New York on board the liner Oceanic on 23 April 1903. He is described as 22 years of age and single.
Edward Sheehy married Leontine Barbara Gerard and they had two sons, Edward G. Sheehy and Maurice Sheehy.
Edward Sheehy died on 17 March 1956 in California. His mother’s surname is given as Deasy.
He had two sons, Edward G. Sheehy (13/4/1933 – 2012) and Maurice Sheehy (16/2/1935 – 10/10/2015).
Edward G. Sheehy and his wife Marcelin Pegler had three children, Patricia Rose, Edward T. (22/11/1960), and Patrick S. (20/4/1965).
Maurice Sheehy married (1) Joyce Mehrkens and that marriage ended in divorce. He subsequently married (2) Nancy Redman-Ewing. He had no children.
When Timothy Sheehy married Anne Deasy on 31 January 1864, his father is named on the civil certificate as Patrick Deasy of Ballintemple. There are marriage records for three men named Patrick Deasy within the time constraints of him having a son of marriageable age and within the four parishes of Ardfield and Rathbarry, Barryroe (Lislee), Clonakilty (Darrara) and Timoleague. These are in Church records only because civil registration only came into force in 1864, the year his son, Timothy, married.
There is no church birth record at all in the parishes of Barryroe (Lislee), Clonakilty (Darrara) or Timoleague for a Timothy Sheehy within the time constraints, having searched for ten years either side of the likely date of his birth, given that the marriage certificate states he was 28 years of age.
It is possible that the priest recording the groom’s father’s name entered it incorrectly, bearing in mind that the marriage was taking place in the bride’s parish not the groom’s.
Unfortunately, I think all avenues of enquiry have been exhausted and it will not be possible to establish who Timothy Sheehy or his parents were.
Timothy Sheehy (1)
Timothy Sheehy (1), son of Patrick Sheehy (Ballintemple) married Anne Deasy (Lehina) married Timothy Sheehy on 21 January, 1864.
The civil marriage certificate states that the groom was 28 years of age. That would give a birth year of 1836. The bride, Anne Deasy is stated to be 24 years of age, which would give a birth year of 1840.
Having searched the parish records of Barryroe (Lislee), Timoleague, Clonakilty (Darrara) and Rathbarry, no entry for a Timothy Sheehy has been found between the years 1820 to 1845. As he married in 1864, this would seem to be a reasonable search. Civil registration had not come into force at this time and it appears that for some reason unknown, Timothy’s baptism was not registered.
Timothy Sheehy (1) died on 29 January, 1893. On his death certificate his age is given as 54 years of age, which would give him a birth year of 1839. This is a three year discrepancy from that given on his marriage certificate. His wife, Anne, was present when Timothy died of T.B. They lived at Templebryan, Clonakilty, at the time of his death. He was described as a labourer. This may be significant as he was described as a farmer on his marriage certificate, a dairyman on the birth certificates of his first six children and a farmer on that of his seventh child. This may suggest uncertainty in his social status and may (I stress may) explain how is son Maurice and daughter Minnie were included on a list of persons who lodged applications with the Estates Commissioners as the representatives of an evicted tenant.
This theory is, I believe, supported by the fact that over the period when the couple’s seven children were born, Timothy and Anne Sheehy lived at six different locations, Ballymacowen, Chapel Street (Clonakilty), Ballinroher, Lehinagh (Lehina), Carrigrour (Desert) and Ballintemple. This constant change of address would appear to be an indication of the uncertainty of tenure under which Timothy Sheehy (1) laboured to support a large family.
TIMOTHY SHEEHY (2)
John Deasy (Lehina) married Honoria Sexton (Lehina)
Their daughter: Anne Deasy (Lehina) married Timothy Sheehy, son of Patrick Sheehy, Ballintemple (Lackenduv) 21/1/1864
They had seven children, Timothy (2), born 14/4/1866; Mary, born 16/11/1867; Anne born 11/4/1870; Margaret born 30/7/1871; John, born 6/10/1873; Maurice, born 5/3/1877 and Edward born 7/1/1881.
Timothy Sheehy (2) was born at Ballymacowen, Kilnagross, in the parish of Kilgarriff Clonakilty on 14 April 1866. His father is described as a Dairyman.
Timothy Sheehy (2) married Annie Pearce on 25 December 1891. He is described as 25 years old and a Carman (journeyman) and he lived at 12, Bull Court, Tooley Street. Annie Pearce was 26 years old and lived at 4, Maze Pond, Southwark. She had no occupation listed. Her father, Garrett, Muro Pearce is described as an ex Police Inspector. The marriage took place in the Catholic Church of Our Lady of La Salette and St. Joseph in the District of St. Olave, Southwark, London.
In 1901 Timothy Sheehy (2) was living at 214 Quinn Square, St. George the Martyr, Southwark, St. Saviour’s, Southwark, London.
He is described as 32 years old, born in 1869 (he was born in 1866) and was a general labourer. He was born in Ireland
His wife, Anne Sheehy (nee Pearce) was 39 years old (born 1862) and was a native of Southwark.
They had four children,
Timothy (3) aged 9 (1892); John aged 7 (1894); Annie aged 4 (1897) and Amelia M. aged 1 (1900)
In 1911 the family lived at 137 Bermondsey St. SE, Bermondsey, London.
Timothy (2) is now described as a Tea Blender and his year of birth as 1866 (correct) and was born in Cork, Ireland.
Their eldest son, Timothy (3) has left home, but there are two additional children
Minnie aged 3 (born 1908) and Nellie, aged under a year old, born 1911.
Timothy Sheehy (2) died in 1932 Aged 66 years. District of St. Olave, Southwark. Death quarter 2, Volume 1D, Page 120.
Mary (Minnie) Sheehy
Máire Ní Sithigh
John Deasy (Lehina) married Honoria Sexton (Lehina)
Their daughter: Anne Deasy (Lehina) married Timothy Sheehy, son of Patrick Sheehy, Ballintemple (Lackenduv) 21/1/1864
They had seven children, Timothy, born 14/4/1866; Mary, born 16/11/1867; Anne born 11/4/1870; Margaret born 30/7/1871; John, born 6/10/1873; Maurice, born 5/3/1877 and Edward born 7/1/1881.
When Mary Sheehy was born, 16 November, 1867, the family were living at Ballymacowen, Kilnagross. Her father was described as a Dairyman.
In the 1901 Census, Mary (Minnie) was living with her mother, Anne, and her brother, Maurice, at Ashgrove, Clonakilty.
In the 1911 Census, she and her brother, Maurice, were still living at Ashgrove, but it would appear that their mother, Anne, had died by that time. The Census form was completed in Irish and Mary (Máire) was described as ‘Scríbhnóir Gaelige) Irish authoress.
She married Denis O’Leary of 17 June 1915
Mary O’Leary (nee Sheehy) died on 13 July 1955 at Ballinamona, Courtmacsherry. She is described as a widow, aged 88 years and had suffered from Senile Decay. There was no doctor in attendance and her cousin Patrick Deasy was present when she died.
Anne Sheehy
John Deasy (Lehina) married Honoria Sexton (Lehina)
Their daughter: Anne Deasy (Lehina) married Timothy Sheehy, son of Patrick Sheehy, Ballintemple (Lackenduv) 21/1/1864
They had seven children, Timothy, born 14/4/1866; Mary, born 16/11/1867; Anne born 11/4/1870; Margaret born 30/7/1871; John, born 6/10/1873; Maurice, born 5/3/1877 and Edward born 7/1/1881.
Anne Sheehy was born on 11 April 1870 at Chapel Street, Clonakilty. Her father is described as a Dairyman.
Anne, (known as Annie), is likely to have been the Annie Sheehy, adult, single, servant, who left Queenstown for New York on board the liner Germanic on 30 April 1896.
Annie married Timothy J Donovan and lived in Ingram, Pennsylvania. No record of the marriage taking place in Ireland has been found so it is likely that she emigrated to the U.S. first and married there.
Annie died 15 July 1948 of cerebral thrombosis, myocarditis and pulmonary edema. She is described as widow of Timothy Donovan. Her address was 62, Admiral Dervey, Rural Ingram, Allen County, Pennsylvania. The informant of her death was L. T. Donovan, 15, Haldane St., Grafton, Pennsylvania.
It is believed she had three children, Daniel, Lawrence (informant above?) and Margaret.
Margaret Sheehy
John Deasy (Lehina) married Honoria Sexton (Lehina)
Their daughter: Anne Deasy (Lehina) married Timothy Sheehy, son of Patrick Sheehy, Ballintemple (Lackenduv) 21/1/1864
They had seven children, Timothy, born 14/4/1866; Mary, born 16/11/1867; Anne born 11/4/1870; Margaret born 30/7/1871; John, born 6/10/1873; Maurice, born 5/3/1877 and Edward born 7/1/1881.
Margaret Sheehy was born 30 July 1871 at Ballinroher, Kilnagross, Clonakilty. Her father is described as a Dairyman.
Margaret is likely to have been the Margaret Sheehy, aged 20, born in 1871, single, who boarded the liner Teutonic on 10 September 1891 at Queenstown, bound for New York.
Margaret Sheehy married John J. Quinn. No record of the marriage has been found so it is likely that they married after she emigrated to the U.S. She died on 8 January 1907 and her residence is given as 5137 Stanton Avenue, Ingram, Pennsylvania. Cause of death was Puerperal Septicaemia and Exhaustion – in other words, Margaret died aged 36 in childbirth
John Sheehy
John Deasy (Lehina) married Honoria Sexton (Lehina)
Their daughter: Anne Deasy (Lehina) married Timothy Sheehy, son of Patrick Sheehy, Ballintemple (Lackenduv) 21/1/1864
They had seven children, Timothy, born 14/4/1866; Mary, born 16/11/1867; Anne born 11/4/1870; Margaret born 30/7/1871; John, born 6/10/1873; Maurice, born 5/3/1877 and Edward born 7/1/1881.
John Sheehy emigrated from Ireland to England. In the 1901 Census he was living at Farleigh Court Cottages, Farleigh, Farley, Godstone, Surrey, England. The house was occupied by a family named Sivier, husband (a shepherd), wife, five children, a sister and three boarders. John Sheehy is one of the boarders. He was described as ‘labourer on farm’, born in Cork, Ireland and single.
John Sheehy, described as a general labourer, married Annie Ferguson on 8 May 1901 at Godstone, Surrey.
They were married in the Church of the Sacred Heart, Caterham. (There was a large army barracks at Caterham which may have been significant in John Sheehy’s life in the future) His address is given as Farleigh Cottages, Farleigh and his bride’s address is given as Fairchildes, Chelsham. Annie Ferguson’s father, John was a Farm Labourer.
By the time of the 1911 Census, John’s address was Chelsam Common, Whyteleafe, Surrey, Chelsham, Surrey, England. John Sheehy described himself as a farm labourer and gave his birthplace as Barryroe, Co. Cork. He gave his birth year as 1875 (in fact it was 1873). His wife, Annie Sheehy (nee Ferguson), was born in Addington, Surrey in 1874. The couple had three children listed; Patrick John, born in 1904 at Cudham in Kent, Kathleen Mary born in 1908 in Chelsham, Surrey and Maurice born in 1911 also at Chelsham.
John Sheehy enlisted in the British Army at Whitehall, Middlesex and gave his address as Warlingham, Surrey. He first served in the Royal Engineers with the service number 295029. Then he seems to have been transferred to the 709th Company, Labour Corps, Royal Engineers, and was assigned the service number 123551. His rank was Pioneer, a rank similar to a Sapper.
Historically, British infantry regiments maintained small units of pioneers for heavy work and engineering, especially for clearing paths through forests and for leading assaults on fortifications.
The Labour Corps was formed in 1917 and employed 325,000 British Troops, 98,000 Chinese, 10,000 Africans and at least 300,000 other labourers.
John Sheehy died of wounds on the Western Front 15 February 1918. His death certificate lists his original Service Number – 295029 - and he is described as a Private, aged forty-two, a member of the British Expeditionary Force and the cause of death is given as ‘Enemy Aircraft Bomb’. The British Expeditionary Force remained the official name of the British Army serving in France and Belgium throughout WW1.
He is buried in Ham British Cemetery, Muille-Violette, France. Grave Ref: I.B.14
Maurice Sheehy
John Deasy (Lehina) married Honoria Sexton (Lehina)
Their daughter: Anne Deasy (Lehina) married Timothy Sheehy, son of Patrick Sheehy, Ballintemple (Lackenduv) 21/1/1864
They had seven children, Timothy, born 14/4/1866; Mary, born 16/11/1867; Anne born 11/4/1870; Margaret born 30/7/1871; John, born 6/10/1873; Maurice, born 5/3/1877 and Edward born 7/1/1881.
Maurice Sheehy was born on 5 March 1877 at Carrigrour, Desert, Clonakilty and his father is described as a Dairyman.
In the 1901 Census, Maurice was living with his mother, Anne, and his sister Minnie (Mary) at Ashgrove, Clonakilty.
In the 1911 Census, Maurice and Minnie were still living at Ashgrove, Clonakilty, but their mother Anne, it would seem, had died by that time.
Maurice never married and lived with his sister Mary (Minnie) it is said until she married Denis O’Leary, after which ‘he lived elsewhere. It is also said that he had ‘a fondness for the drink’.
Maurice died on 2 October 1949 in the County Home, Clonakilty. He was 73 years old and the cause of death was given as cancer of the stomach.
Edward Sheehy
John Deasy (Lehina) married Honoria Sexton (Lehina)
Their daughter: Anne Deasy (Lehina) married Timothy Sheehy, son of Patrick Sheehy, Ballintemple (Lackenduv) 21/1/1864
They had seven children, Timothy, born 14/4/1866; Mary, born 16/11/1867; Anne born 11/4/1870; Margaret born 30/7/1871; John, born 6/10/1873; Maurice, born 5/3/1877 and Edward born 7/1/1881.
Edward Sheehy was born on 7 January 1881 at Ballintemple, Templemalus, Clonakilty. His father is described as a Farmer (not Dairyman as with the six previous children)
Edward is likely to have been the Edward Sheehy who emigrated from Queenstown to New York on board the liner Oceanic on 23 April 1903. He is described as 22 years of age and single.
Edward Sheehy married Leontine Barbara Gerard and they had two sons, Edward G. Sheehy and Maurice Sheehy.
Edward Sheehy died on 17 March 1956 in California. His mother’s surname is given as Deasy.
He had two sons, Edward G. Sheehy (13/4/1933 – 2012) and Maurice Sheehy (16/2/1935 – 10/10/2015).
Edward G. Sheehy and his wife Marcelin Pegler had three children, Patricia Rose, Edward T. (22/11/1960), and Patrick S. (20/4/1965).
Maurice Sheehy married (1) Joyce Mehrkens and that marriage ended in divorce. He subsequently married (2) Nancy Redman-Ewing. He had no children.
