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Margaret Gleeson

Margaret Gleeson

Born
1853-06-06 12:00:00
Died
1938-08-14 12:00:00
Gender
Female

Margaret Gleeson was born on June 6, 1853, in Drangan, Tipperary, Ireland. (She is sometimes confused with Margret Gleeson who lived for some time with her brother, John, and who died in Thurles.) This Margaret's parents were William Thomas Gleeson and Ellen Mara. Margaret married John St. John in 1874 in Tipperary, Ireland. They had eleven children during their marriage. William Patrick was the third son. Margaret Gleeson St John died on August 14, 1938, in Tipperary, Ireland. (Some researchers report that she died in December 1936.) Her gravesite may be in Ballingarry Parish (Slievardagh), County Tipperary.

Associated communities

Tipperary

County Tipperary, or Tiobraid Árann in Irish, is part of the central plain of Ireland.  We are a landlocked, rural county home to mountains, rivers and lakes.  Our county town is Clonmel and we have a population of approximately 160,441. We look forward to helping you connect with your ancestors’ place of origin.

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Buildings in this community

  • Castle Fogarty

    Location: Tipperary

    Ballycahill, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, E41 YP68

  • Cahir House Hotel

    Location: Tipperary

    E21H244 TIPPERARY (Ireland)

  • Spring Mount Tipperary

    Location: Tipperary

  • St. Ruadhans Abbey - Lorrha

    Location: Tipperary

Timeline events in this community

  • 1840s

    Hogan/Murphy Emigration to St Louis

    1848-01-01 12:00:00

  • 1840s

    Irish press warns against Jamaican Indentured Servitude

    <p>The theme was always the same: the pestilential climate of the island, the reduction of poor emigrants to slaves, the severity and cruelty of the planters (and planter-dominated Assembly clinging to every vestige of oppression) and, of course, the absence of priests and chapels.</p>

    1840-12-01 12:00:00

  • 1880s

    1889 All Ireland Senior Gaelic Football Final

    1889-10-20 12:00:00

  • 1890s

    1895 All Ireland Senior Gaelic Football Final

    1896-03-15 12:00:00