Category: Related
Articles that deal with people known to be related to my wife or myself.
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 …
John William Keating Jr
July 21, 1943 – April 12, 2019 John William Keating Jr., 75, of Essex, died on April 12, 2019. Born on July 21, 1943, and raised in Howard Park, he was the son of the late John Sr. and Sara (Pope) Keating. Read More …
Keating Family Disagreement Ends in Gunfire
Sometimes, years after doing your family research, you come across a newspaper article that you had never seen before. An article that raises as many questions as it answers. This is one of those articles.
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 …
The Keating Family Immigrates to America
I think I’ve discovered my family’s new motto. Read More …
Administrivia: Back Online
As a Christmas gift, my wife bought me both an updated subscription to Ancestry.com as well as an AncestryDNA kit. This has prompted me to renew my interest in genealogy, and as a pleasant side-effect, do some long-needed maintenance to Read More …
Births – December 8, 2009
Births – December 8, 2009 WMHS Memorial Campus Christy and Andy McCoy, Keyser, W.Va., a daughter, Avery Brooke, Nov. 13, 2009. Western Maryland Regional Medical Center Bethany and Aaron Alt, a daughter, Juliet Hyacinth Alt, Nov. 24, 2009. Paternal grandparents Read More …
Births – April 4, 2010
Births – April 4, 2010 Cumberland Times-News – Western Maryland Regional Medical Center Erik and Christina (Mullenax) Tippen, Cumberland, a son, Zachery Joseph Tippen, March 15, 2010. Maternal grandparents are Roger and Tammy Mullenax, Flintstone, and Tena and Mark Beal, Read More …
Hulda (Pape) Lambert
Lambert, On January 19, 2012 Hulda Theresa Lambert. Beloved wife of Philip Lambert Jr. Devoted mother of Eleanor Bennett and Curtis T. Shroyer. Also survived by 6 grandchildren, 6 great grandchildren, 7 brothers and 3 sisters. Friends may call at Read More …
The Sand Patch Tunnel
“The following year, my father and his brother Patrick began to take contracts all up through Pa., Va., and West Va., and began to build the railroads to open up the three states. It took years to finish them. It Read More …
An Account Of John Charles Keating
There are two letters written by children of John C. Keating that helped me start my research. Though written many years after the events described, and I’ve since found that some of the details (such as dates) are not precise, Read More …
2010 Keating / Pope Family Reunion
The annual Keating / Pope family reunion has been tentatively scheduled for Saturday, 19 June 2010, in Howard County, Maryland. Primarily a reunion of the descendants and cousins of John Keating and Sara Pope of western Maryland, more distant cousins Read More …
Karen Marie (Keating) Ridenour (1 January 1961 – 21 November 2009)
Karen Marie Keating Ridenour, 48 JAN. 1, 1961-NOV. 21, 2009 Karen Marie Keating Ridenour, 48, of Hagerstown, Md., died Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, in Hagerstown. Born Jan. 1, 1961, in Frostburg, Md., she was the daughter of Bernard A. and Read More …
Mary Teresa (Hart) Counihan (c.1898 – 27 May 1963)
Mrs. John F. Counihan Mrs. Mary Teresa Counihan, 65, of 231 Race Street, died yesterday at her home after an illness of two months. Born in Frostburg, she was a daughter of the late Robert John and Teresa May (Conrad) Read More …
Teresa (Counihan) Rummer (c. 1916 – 25 March 1949)
Mrs. Teresa C. Rummer Mrs. Teresa (Counihan) Rummer, 33, of 166 Thomas Street, died early today at Mt. Wilson Hospital, Pikesville, following a lingering illness. She was born in Frostburg, the daughter of John F. and Mary (Hart) Counihan, but Read More …
Annie K. (Cronin) Keating (c.1872 – 16 March 1936)
Mrs. Keating Funeral Tomorrow The funeral of Mrs. Annie K. (Cronin) Keating, wife of Thomas P. Keating, who died at Miami, Florida, March 16, will be held from the home of her sister, Mrs. Michael O’Neill, 33 Cottage street, tomorrow Read More …
Fireman Mistaking Order Jumps From Locomotive And Dies (4 January 1952)
Fireman Mistaking Order Jumps From Locomotive And Dies John J. Counihan, Father of Two, Killed in Accident Near Rawlings A new fireman was killed near Rawlings today when he misunderstood his engineer’s instructions and jumped from the cab of a Read More …
Agnes Keating (Sister Mary Saint Esprit) (8 February 1867 – 9 December 1958)
Sister Mary Esprit FROSTBURG – Sister Mary Saint Esprit of the Order of the Good Shepherd, 92, died Tuesday in St. Mary’s Hospital, Troy, N. Y., following a fall in which she suffered a broken hip. The former Miss Agnes Read More …