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Honora Mary (O'Keefe) Cody (abt. 1853 - 1939)

Honora Mary Cody formerly O'Keefe
Born about in Kilmore, Victoria, Australiamap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 1880 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australiamap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 86 in Kew, Victoria, Australiamap
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Biography

Honora (O'Keefe) Cody was born in the Colony of Victoria (1851-1900)
Honora (O'Keefe) Cody has Irish ancestors.

Honora Mary O'Keefe, known as "Norah", was born about 1853 in Kilmore, Victoria, Australia. She was the daughter of Michael Stanley O'Keefe and Honora Elizabeth Gardiner.[1]

Honora married Michael James Cody in 1880 in Melbourne, Victoria.[2]

Michael and Honora had four sons and five daughters:

  1. Mary Ann Cody m Walter Edgar Page Brown
  2. Thomas Francis Cody m Ada Meta Nelson
  3. Hubert Michael Cody m Crystal Mary Dwyer
  4. Joseph Denis Cody
  5. Amelia Frances Cody
  6. William George Cody m Mary Josephine O'Leary
  7. Lily Alice Cody
  8. Gertrude Mary Cody
  9. Dorothea Louisa Cody m Robert James Culverwell Burns

From 1890 to 1898, her husband was the Governor of Geelong Gaol. He then became Governor of Pentridge Prison in Melbourne and retired from this position on 30 April 1912. [3]

After living in the stockades at both Geelong and Pentridge, Michael and Honora moved to 11 Fulton St, St Kilda, Melbourne.[4]

Her husband died on 5 August 1930.

Honora Cody died, aged 84, in Kew, Victoria on 22 June 1939.[5]

Probate was granted on 31 August 1939 in Melbourne.[6]

Sources

  1. The Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Birth Index of Honora O'Keefe 1853, Birth Reg No 1345/1853
  2. The Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Marriage Index of Michael James Cody and Honora O'Keeffe 1880, Marriage Reg No 4378/1880
  3. Victoria Government Gazette, No 62, Wed 1 May 1912, p1724. Retirement of Michael Cody
  4. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 Ancestry.com; Australian Electoral Rolls
  5. The Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Death Index of Honorah Cody, Death Reg No 5611/1939
  6. Probate: "Australia, Victoria, Index to Probate Registers, 1841-1989"
    Citing Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, series 307, record 162, Public Record Office, Victoria; FamilySearch digital folder 004104679.
    FamilySearch (accessed 20 December 2021)
    FamilySearch Image Image number 198
    Honora Cody probate on 31 Aug 1939 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Died 22 Jun 1939.




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