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Find a Grave memorial 209824876: John Francis Xavier O’Regan
Memorial ID 209824876
Weight of this evidence
- Tier
- index
- Confidence
- ●●○○ normal
- Review
- AI-checked
- Analysis
- derivative source · secondary information · direct evidence
- Held at
- Find a Grave
Transcription and reasoning
Transcription (as written): John Francis Xavier O'Regan; b. 30 Jul 1904; d. 16 May 1978; burial Calvary Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky.
2026-10-28 (karel): Created on Ancestry (pid 212811830091). Must precede 1026–1032. Father of Martha Chill 212801416730 (obit lock, FG 209872760). Burial Calvary Cemetery, Louisville (FG) — note only, no burial event. FG 182930384 REJECTED (wrong man).
Conflicts: ["FG 182930384 rejected — different John O'Regan; do not attach.", 'SSDI cite has no URL.']
Validator (claude-sonnet-5-5, 2026-10-28): consistent, confidence 2/4, tier index.
The transcription gives the exact birth and death dates claimed and a burial in Jefferson County, Kentucky. It does not state the death place, so claim 2's place is only inferred from the burial. As a derivative Find a Grave entry with no image, it can at most be consistent. The note shows the researcher already excluded a similarly named memorial, which supports careful identification.
Matches: Name matches John Francis Xavier O'Regan; Birth date 30 Jul 1904 matches claim 1; Death date 16 May 1978 matches claim 2; Burial at Calvary Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky fits the claimed death place
Limits: Find a Grave memorial transcription is derivative/secondary, with no image of the record or headstone; Burial place is not the same as death place; the memorial does not state where he died, though Jefferson County is a reasonable inference; Memorial does not itself show the identity link to the database person beyond name and dates; Research note says a different Find a Grave memorial (182930384) was rejected as the wrong man, so identification relies on the researcher's judgment (obituary link via daughter's memorial)
What it supports
- Born · 30 July 1904 — John Francis Xavier O'Regan
- Died · 16 May 1978 · Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA — John Francis Xavier O'Regan
- Person — John Francis Xavier O'Regan