Arms Granted to Keatings
A batch of arms from The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, A Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earlest to the Present Time by Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., LL.D.
Category: Bloodlines
A parent category for various bloodlines that I’m researching.
Geography – Keatings Lagoon, Australia
In the northeast corner of Australia lies Keating’s Lagoon. The lagoon is about 5km (3 miles) from Cooktown and is designated a tropical wetland. Graham Keating writes that it is named after a Keating family who settled in the area. Read More …
Biography – Very Rev. Geoffrey Keating, D.D.
Geoffrey Keating is perhaps the most famous of the Keating family, having written an acclaimed history of Ireland. A brief biography from Anglo-Irish and Other Genealogies can be found after the jump.
Geography – Keating, Pennsylvania, USA
Stephen F. Miller Jr. has created a very nice site with information on the counties and cities of North Central Pennsylvania. Of particular interest to our researchers are Keating and Keating Summit. According to reader Lori Chase, During the border Read More …
Geography – Keatings Corner, Canada
Reader David Hollek wrote, there is a “Keatings Corner” and “Keatings Corner Cemetery” in Westfield Parish, Kings County, New Brunswick. The McGovern family married Keatings and are buried there. David also mentions that he is married to a McGovern. Much Read More …
Geography – Keating Park, Dublin, Ireland
Between Dublin and Naas, Co. Kildare, near the town of Rathcoole, sits the townsland (an unincorporated area) known as Keatings Park. Seamus Keating wrote of Keating’s Park: I remember once my father told me that it was probably named after Read More …
Keating vs. Cromwell
Some time back, on of the earlier incarnations of KeatingSearch.com, Anne B. Keating wrote, In the realm of tall tales I remember from childhood, was the story of a Hugh Keating who fought back Cromwell’s troops with a a sword Read More …
The Origins of the Keating Name
An extract from the “Memoir of the Father Geoffrey Keating, D. D.”, by Michael Doheny, Esq. This memoir makes up part of the introduction to John O’Mahony’s translation of Geoffrey Keating’s “The History of Ireland” (in Irish Gaelic, “Foras Feasa Read More …
The Arms of the Keating Family
In catalogues, malls, and books, we often see Grants of Arms attributed to the Keating family. Many of us have at least one copy of these “traditional” arms somewhere in our house. Are we entitled to them, however? In Irish Read More …
Keatings in the US Congress
Occasionally, a few of us go bad and end up being elected to the US Congress. Kay Keating sent this list of Keatings that she culled from Congress’s website. Click on the CongressCritter’s name to read his biography. Member Name Read More …
Obituary – John A. Keating (c.1917 – 2003)
John A. Keating John A. Keating, 85, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and veteran of World War II, and father of Maggie Jones of Spotsylvania County, died Monday, Nov. 17, 2003, at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital, Alexandria. Mr. Keating enlisted Read More …