When Christopher Patrick Sheehan was born on 25 February 1922, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, his father, Christopher Patrick Sheehan, was 23 and his mother, Lillian May Bourke, was 24. He died on 20 March 2007, in his hometown, at the age of 85.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Aileen, Rourke, Ciaran, Kiera, Kieran, Siobhan, Brigid, Donal, Eamonn, Ethna, Finbarr.
Irish (Cork): shortened form of O'Sheehan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Síodhacháin ‘descendant of Síodhachán’, a personal name representing a diminutive of síodhach ‘peaceful’, the same word as sítheach. Compare Sheehy .
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