A record-led family history
The trail starts in ink, not legend.
Ireland to Massachusetts. Nebraska to California. This archive follows the deceased Hickey relatives whose records carry the story across an ocean and a continent.
The documented route
- 01Tipperary?Candidate parish cluster
- 02WebsterMill town bridge
- 03NebraskaPioneer households
- 04CaliforniaThe later generations
Current finding
The wall moved to Knockavilla.
The best Irish-origin candidate is no longer a lone name. Five baptisms record children of Edmund Hickey and Mary Sweeny between 1837 and 1847. Four names overlap the sibling set later published in Nebraska.
That convergence is exciting. It is also still a working hypothesis. The 1844 baptism conflicts with John's later 1848 birth tradition, and three named siblings remain missing.
Open the research notebookArchive at a glance
What survives. What connects. What still argues back.
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The public boundary
The dead and the buried.
Living relatives are intentionally unnamed. The archive stops where historical evidence meets present-day privacy.