Jeremiah Shea

Abt 1818 - 1865  (~ 47 years)

• Name	Jeremiah Shea  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Birth	Abt 1818	Ireland   [1, 3, 4, 6]
  	Marriage Certificate to Julia indicates Jeremiah is from Kilcatherine, Cork, Ireland
  		Dermot & Julia Shea Marraige
  Gender	Male
  FSID	GQRR-S3Q
  Name	Jerh Shea  [10]
  Residence	1861	Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales   [11]
  	GLARG9_4059_4063-0244
  Occupation	25 Jan 1862	Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales   [12]
  	Occupation: Navvie
  	Navvies were the men who actually built railways. The building of rail lines was very labour intensive. At one stage during the C19th, one in every 100 persons who worked in this country was a navvy. The word “navvy” came from the word navigator. By the mid-C19th – the height of railway mania – there were 250,000 navvies throughout the country. As railways were a vital component of the Industrial Revolution, the work of the navvies can also be considered crucial.
  Residence	25 Jan 1862	Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales   [12]
  Quarry Street
  Death	Mar 1865	Glamorganshire, United Kingdom   [9]
  	MonthAlias: 1; QuarterOfYear: Jan-Feb-Mar; MonthAlias: 2
  Person ID	I74	Perchinske Strohmeyer Tree
  Last Modified	5 Aug 2025

  
  

  Family	Julia Shea,   b. 1817, Ireland d. 16 Mar 1868, Heolgarrig Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales (Age 51 years)
  Children	+ 1. Daniel Shea,   b. 29 Apr 1845, Kerry, Ireland d. 26 Jul 1909, Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio (Age 64 years)   2. Mary Shea,   b. 1851, Ireland d. 21 May 1896, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 45 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. John Shea,   b. Abt 1856, Ireland d. 1860, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales (Age ~ 4 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F388	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Aug 2025

  
  

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  Birth - Abt 1818 - Ireland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Irish immagration ship_1
  		Julia Shea Merthyr Tydfil death cert
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  		Irish immagration ship
  		Dermot & Julia Shea Marraige

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Shea Family History Name
  		1819 Denis Shea Jeremiah brother?
  		Shea Family History Name
  		1822 Julia Shea Jeremiah's sister?
  		Daniel Shea Flaherty marriage ct
  		Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915
  		Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915
  		Descendants of Jeremiah Shea
  		Descendants of Jeremiah Shea_1

  
  

• Sources

  [S119] Ancestry.com, Ireland, Civil Registration Deaths Index, 1864-1958, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). [S135] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;), New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911–1915. Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915 [S123] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;), New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840???1911. Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915 [S152] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch Family Tree, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X84L-XJ6 : 15 August 2019), Jeremiah Shea in entry for Daniel Shea, 26 Jul 1909; citing Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, reference fn 36792; FHL microfilm 1,927,181. Jeremiah Shea in entry for Daniel Shea, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953" https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X84L-XJ6 [S448] Ancestry.com, Web: Ireland, Census Search Forms 1841, 1851, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;). http://censussearchforms.nationalarchives.ie/search/cs/details.jsp?id=3846 [S123] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;). Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915 [S678] Ancestry.com, Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), National Library of Ireland; Dublin, Ireland; Irish Catholic Parish Registers; Microfilm Number: Microfilm 04286 / 05. [S686] Ancestry.com, Ireland, Census Search Forms, 1841-1851, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2021;), Microfilm of original records at the National Archives; Dublin, Ireland; Ireland Census Search Forms. Ireland, Census Search Forms, 1841-1851 [S128] FreeBMD, England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). Record for Jeremiah Shea https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=8914&h=30306995&indiv=try England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915 [S677] Ancestry.com, Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), National Library of Ireland; Dublin, Ireland; Irish Catholic Parish Registers; Microfilm Number: Microfilm 04802 / 04. Record for Jerh Shea https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=61039&h=9202775&indiv=try Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915 [S441] 1861 Wales Census. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=8768&h=13650024&tid=&pid=&queryId=f8ee737228758be89472a2d1acf26b06&usePUB=true&_phsrc=YgV3181&_phstart=successSource [S446] Marriage Certificate of Daniel Shea and Mary Flaherty, Certified copy of an entry of Marriage in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Brecon Wales. Marriage solemnized at the Roman Catholic Chapel George Town in the District of Merthyr Tydfil in the Counties of Glamorgan and Brecon. No. 198 When Married: Twenty-fifth January 1862 Name and Surname: Daniel Shea. Mary Flaherty Age: Years 19 19 Condition: Rank or Profession: Navvie (manual labor of roads, canals or train tracks) Residence at Time of Marriage: Quarry Street. Father’s Name and Surname: Jeremiah Shea. Patrick Flaherty Rank or Profession of Father: Navvie Married in the Catholic Chapel George Town according to the rites and ceremonies of the Catholic Church. This marriage was solemnized between us: X the mark of Daniel Shea. X the mark of Mary Flaherty in the Presence of us, X the mark of Florence and Ellen MacCarthy. Note: Florence and Ellen MacCarthy were living next to Jeremiah Shea in 1861 census Daniel Shea Flaherty marriage ct