Category Archives: Deaths

Michael O’Reilly: Staying on Track with the ‘Other O’Reillys’

Posted on September 16, 2013 by

Are they related? While researching John and Ellen O’Reilly’s family I kept coming across the family of Michael and Margaret O’Reilly, intertwined one with the another. O’Reilly is a common Irish name but I still wondered if they were related. I … Continue reading →

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Trove Detective: John F. O’Reilly’s Family Notices.

Posted on September 13, 2013 by

Looking Back with Hindsight Now that I have discovered so much about John and Maude O’Reilly it’s hard to look back and remember how much family history research has changed over the last decade or so. The internet has it’s … Continue reading →

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Trove Detective: John F. O’Reilly: Just a Little Trove Magic

Posted on August 25, 2013 by

Perseverance Rewarded.      Still struggling to find where John O’Reilly was buried. His marriage certificate showed his name as John Francis Benedict O’Reilly, an electrical engineer living in Petersham when he married Catherine Maude Wormersley, a dressmaker at St … Continue reading →

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Trove Detective: Ellen O’Reilly: Where is John?

Posted on August 22, 2013 by

In Search of John F. O’Reilly Now there are only the cemeteries for three of John & Ellen O’Reilly’s thirteen children left to find. Mary Ellen Walshe was buried at Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park in 1969 & the youngest child, … Continue reading →

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Ellen O’Reilly: Keeping the Family Together.

Posted on August 19, 2013 by

Finding more ways around Rookwood Necropolis Babies Michael, Mary & Agnes O’Reilly have no headstone Cemetery Transcriptions are another way to trace family members you may be looking for, through inscriptions on headstones and memorials in cemeteries. It’s always rewarding … Continue reading →

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Ellen O’Reilly : Roaming around Rookwood Cemetery

Posted on August 15, 2013 by

Finding & Remembering the Little Ones. At Rookwood Necropolis, I arrived armed with a spreadsheet listing all the O’Reilly’s I wanted to find and a map of the Catholic Section showing Section Mortuary 1, where the babies were buried. Nowadays, … Continue reading →

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