An ongoing journal of genealogical and family discovery.
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 …
The following is a list of the name of the persons whose cabins have been levelled and who have left the parish in the last fifteen years.
– Very Reverend James Rickard, Parish Priest of Ballymore Eustace, 1862. Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …