Descendants of Mary LOOBY (Caution: not verified)

Second Generation

Thomas and Mary had the following children:

	9	M	i	John TREACY was born 4 Dec 1873 and was christened 5 Dec 1873 in Solohead, Co. Tipperary. He died prob 1873 or 1874. John's godparents were Michael Looby and Catherine Carey. Because a second John was born a year later, we assume that this John died shortly after birth.
	10	M	ii	John TREACY was born about 1 Nov 1874 and was christened 1 Nov 1874 in Tipperary. John's godparents were Michael Looby and Catherine Carey. There doesn't seem to be any recollection of John as an adult. He may have died as a child.
	11	M	iii	Edmund TREACY was born about 8 Nov 1875 and was christened 8 Nov 1875 in Tipperary. He died prob. April 1906 in prob San Francisco. Edmund's godparents were Edmund Carey and Margaret O'Dwyer. Edmund emigrated to the United States as a young man. Ellis Island records were checked but nothing that definitely related to this Edmund was found. It's believed that Edmund died in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. He was living there at the time and nothing more was heard from him after that.
	12	M	iv	Timothy (Timmy) Joseph TREACY was born about 16 Jul 1878 and was christened 16 Jul 1878 in Tipperary. He died 28 Nov 1930 in Lisnabrinnia, Mountnugent, Co. Cavan and was buried 30 Dec 1930 in Ballinacree Cemetery, Mountnugent, Co. Cavan. Timmmy's godparents were John Casey and Johanna Casey (should "Casey" read "Carey"?). Timmy lived in Lisnabrinnia, Mountnugent, Co. Cavan and worked as an instructor with the Co. Cavan Technical Instruction Committee. He never married.
+	13	M	v	Thomas Joseph TREACY was born 13 Apr 1881 and died 13 Apr 1969.
	14	M	vi	Martin Joseph TREACY was born about 9 Nov 1883 in Murgasty Cottages, Murgasty, Co. Tipperary and was christened 9 Nov 1883 in Tipperary. He died 19 Jan 1977 in Fermoy, Co. Cork and was buried in Kilcrumper Old Cemetery, Fermoy. Martin's godparents were Edmond Carew and Bridget Carew. According to the 1901 census return for his mother's household in Murgasty, Co. Tipperary, Martin, aged 17, was a baker. He later worked in the gasworks business, initially in Cobh, Co. Cork before moving to Fermoy, Co. Cork where he was manager of the Fermoy Gas Company.
				Martin married Catherine FOGARTY. Catherine was born in Portlaw, Co. Waterford. She died 5 Jan 1964 in Fermoy, Co. Cork. Catherine was matron of a workhouse or hospital (presumably in Fermoy). Martin and Catherine, who lived in Duntahane, Fermoy, had no children.

Denis and Bridget had the following children:

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John J. (Seán) TREACY was born 14 Feb 1895 in Soloheadbeg, Co. Tipperary and was christened 16 Feb 1895 in Solohead, Co. Tipperary. He died 14 Oct 1920 in Talbot St., Dublin and was buried 18 Oct 1920 in Kilfeacle, Co. Tipperary. Sponsors at Seán's baptism were Michael Allis and Kate Allis. He was an only child. After his father died when he was only four, he and his mother moved from Soloheadbeg to Hollyford where his mother had grown up. They returned to Soloheadbeg when Seán was about 11. From an early age, Seán had nationalist leanings, and in his teens he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood which later evolved into the Irish Republican Army (IRA). From "My Fight for Irish Freedom", the memoir of Dan Breen, an IRA comrade of Seán's and later a politician,  we have the following description of Seán's physical appearance: He had been delicate during his boyhood because of his fast rate of growth. He was almost a six-footer, slightly stooped in carriage. He weighed about twelve stone, and in an emergency manifested the strength of a lion; this was chiefly due to his amazing will-power. His movements were brisk, as if he were in a constant hurry. His hair was of very fine texture like spun-silk, almost mouse-coloured. He was short-sighted and wore glasses". In August 1917, Seán was arrested and spent two months in jail. The following year he was rearrested and spent four months in jail. Then on 21 January 1919, along with other members of the IRA's Third Tipperary Brigade, including Dan Breen, Seán took part in the Soloheadbeg ambush in which three members of the Royal Irish Constabulary, who were escorting a transportation of explosives, were waylaid and shot dead. This was the first military incident of the War of Independence. Seán and the others who took part in the ambush now had a price on their heads, and Seán Hogan, one of those involved, was captured shortly afterwards. In May 1919 at Knocklong railway station in Co. Limerick, in a successful attempt by Seán Treacy and others to free Seán Hogan as he was being transferred to jail, Seán Treacy was shot in the neck and seriously wounded. He recovered, and throughout the latter half of 1919 and most of 1920 he led attacks against the British in Dublin and Co. Tipperary. But on 14 October 1920 in Dublin, following a raid by British forces on the Republican Outfitters store at 94 Talbot St., where Seán was meeting with IRA comrades, he was shot and killed on the street as he fled the shop. A small plaque above the door of the shop commemorates the spot. Seán is remembered each year on the anniversary of his death at a commemoration ceremony in Kilfeacle where he is buried.

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