Theory: Where Did Titus Come From?

A short article here. Just putting to words a theory that bubbled up while scrolling through some old baptismal records from Ballymore Eustace. I mentioned in this earlier article that my great-grandaunt, Agnes, called her father “John Titus Keating”. Nowhere Read More …

An 1854 Irish Wedding

I’m a little bit late on this article. Ideally, it would have been posted on the 170th anniversary of the wedding, last month. On the 27th of February 1854, my immigrant ancestors, John Charles Keating and Julia Ann Hyland, were Read More …

Keatings in the Journal of the Co. Kildare Archaeological Society: 1691

Earlier this year, I started gathering a collection of citations from online issues of the Journal of the Co. Kildare Archaeological Society and Surround Districts. Lots of gems in here on Keatings in the Co. Kildare area, and I’d like to do Read More …

Dublin Keatings: 1849 Dublin Almanac and General Register of Ireland

Title First Name Middle Name Surname Suffix Job Description Address Property Value Page(s) Notes Mrs. Keating 1 Parnell terrace & South Circular road 16L 530, 800 p800 “Miss Keating” Mrs. Keating 2 Blessington street 45L 530, 681 Ambrose Keating vintner Read More …

Dublin Keatings: 1847 Dublin Almanac and General Register of Ireland

Title First Name Middle Name Surname Suffix Job Description Address Property Value Page(s) Notes Keating printers 50 Stafford street 526, 802, 897 p. 526, “Keating Brothers” Mrs. Keating 2 Synnot place 50£ 526, 803 Mrs. Keating 1 Parnell terrace & Read More …

Dublin Keatings: 1842 Gentleman’s and Citizen’s Almanack

Prefix First Name Middle Name Surname Suffix Job Description Address Page(s) Notes Ambrose Keating vintner 163 Thomas court 734, 787 Charles Keating silversmith 47 Henry street 474, 668, 762 p668, also “Christopher Carroll, carver, gilder, and looking gass manufacturer” Charles Read More …

Dublin Keatings: 1835 Dublin Almanac and General Register of Ireland

Prefix First Name Middle Name Surname Suffix Job Description Address Page(s) Notes Misses Keating boarding school 22 Kildare street 73, 269, 407 On p407, “Seminaries for Young Ladies” The Misses Keating 16 Lower Gardiner street 73, 250 Same address as Read More …

Dublin Keatings: 1833 Dublin Freeman’s Journal Advertisement

An extra entry for today, as I’ve made mention of it in the past. In the 1830 Wilson’s Dublin Directory is listed an “Eliza Keating”, teacher. I found an advertisement of hers within The Freeman’s Journal, a newspaper published in Read More …

Dublin Keatings: 1815 Gentleman’s and Citizen’s Almanack

Prefix First Name Middle Name Surname Suffix Job Description Address Page(s) Notes Keating and Kennedy Silk Manufacturers 1 Hanover street 65 Ambrose Keating Inn-keeper 163 Thomas street 65 C. and R. Keating Starch and stone-blue-manufacturers 193 Great Britain street 65 Read More …

A Luzerne County, PA Keating Family Reunion

[Correspondence, Aug. 23.]The seventh annual reunion of the Keating family was held at Fernbrook Park during the present week and proved to be one of the largest and most sociable of these thus far held. The committee in charge was: Read More …

Letter from Aunt Agnes to Uncle Jerry Counihan, dated August 15, 1948

This is a typewritten transcript of a letter described as a “Letter from Aunt Agnes to Uncle Jerry Counihan dated August 15, 1948. (As placed in HTML format by John W. Keating, III on 8/16/1996.) The transcription of this letter was Read More …

Leonard William “Lennie” Keating (12 March 1921 – 11 February 2012)

Leonard William “Lennie” Keating died at home on 11 February 2012 at age 90. He was born on 12 March 1921 to James and Emily Keating in Bellows Falls, Vermont. He served in the U.S. Navy and was active in Read More …

John William “Jack” Keating (24 July 1926 – 9 April 2012)

John William “Jack” Keating of Grafton, Ohio died on 9 April 2012 at the home of his son, Curt at age 85. He was born 24 July 1926 to Angie (née McMeans) and John M. Keating in Johnston, Pennsylvania. Funeral services Read More …

Sylvia M. Keating (5 June 1917 – 29 May 2012)

Sylvia M. Keating of Evenglow Lodge and formerly of Odell, Illinois died on 29 May 2012. She was born 5 June 1917 in Modoc, Illinois to Raymond and Anna (Horrell) Simpson. Funeral services 2 June 2012 at 11:00am at St. Paul Catholic Church Read More …