Jim Ward's Genealogy Pages
Keatings in County Wexford, Ireland
Loose info, Bits, & Pieces
Most of this information was supplied by Rory Murphy, with help from Paddy Mernagh. My thanks to these two gentlemen for their help in identifying my Keating ancestors!
As stated in my Keating page, I received the following from a Perth, Ontario, Canada, resident and fellow LCGS member which sent me looking for information in County Wexford:
Anne Keating
Ward's son James Keating Ward's death notice in the Perth Courier (Lanark Co.,
Ontario, Canada) Dec. 8,1916, states:
(Words between the [ ] are mine)
"Died at Castlemaine [Victoria, Australia], Oct. 4 (his birthday),
James Keating Ward, an early arrival on Bendigo gold fields. Born at Perth Can.
and was gr. nephew of the late Dr. [James] Keating, Bishop of Ferns, Wexford.
Arrived in Victoria in 1852, surveyor. Interment Rheola Cemetery."
Information Rory extracted from Parish records:
Keating Baptisms from Davidstown records:
Philip, son of James Keating & Sarah Hawkins born on 17 Jan 1814
Eleanor, dau. of Thomas Keating & Mary Marshall, born on 21 Nov 1815
Elizabeth, dau. of James Keating & Sarah Hawkins born on 12 Mar 1816
Eleanor, dau. of Thomas Keating & Mary Marshall, born on 23 Mar 1817
(Obviously the 1st Eleanor died and following custom the next daughter got her name)
Thomas, son of James Keating & Sarah Hawkins, born on 19 Mar 1820
Nicholas, son of James Keating & Sarah Hawkins, born on 20 Apr 1821
Bridget, dau. of James Keating & Ellen Cowman born on 20 Jun 1844
Winifred, dau. of Patrick Keating & Mary Whelan, born on 8 Nov 1868
Anastasia, dau. of Patrick Keating & Mary Whelan, born on 30 Jan 1870
Keating MALE marriages at Davidstown:
Peter married Anne Roche, 28 Feb 1813
Thomas married Margaret Kavanagh, 26 Feb 1851
Nicholas married Maria Codd, 27 April 1864
Note: Thomas was the name of another son of Anne Keating & Patrick Ward. Name patterns here?
Keating FEMALE marriages at Davidstown:
Mary married James Bowe 25th Sept 1841
Mary married Lce. Carr 26th Jan 1815
Johanna married Michael Cosgrave 5th Feb 1838
Maria married Peter Fitzharris 18th Nov 1863
Martha married Pat Stafford 22nd Feb 1841
Anne married Pat Ward 11th Feb 1826 (likely my GG-Grandparents)
Note: Martha was the name of a daughter of Anne Keating & Patrick Ward. Name patterns here too?
KEATINGs
OF BALLINAVARY
In the Tithe Applotment (1834) John Keating of Ballinavary had 29 ac 1 rood Irish Measure.
One or more Keating’s
fought with the rebels at the battle of New Ross 1798. A cannon ball which reputedly
blew the horse from under one of them was said to be brought home
by the Keating man.
That cannon ball and a medal
won by Keating at the Dublin Horse
Show for a Draught Horse, were buried in
Fr Lennon’s grave in Courtnacuddy!!. (Tom Bowe, Ballinavary who is
descended from a Keating and so related to our American Correspondent is
author of this legend.) Tom
Bowe’s great grand father James Bowe married Mary sister of Nicholas Keating (Grave No 2 in Cantwell’s Memorials to
the dead).
It is said that the above
Nicholas Keating when aged 95 attended
a wake (Geo Franklin, Coolamurry)
in 1915, having rode a grey horse to Franklin’s house. A branch of this Keating
family lived in Raheen.
During the Great Famine a Sarah
Keating cooked yellow meal (Yellow
Corn or Maize) in an out house where
she fed the hungry and also taught them Catechism.
Dick Keating who died in 1937
had emigrated to Canada. His wife was an O’Gorman of Chapel, Clonroche, Co
Wexford. When she died, he returned to the Keating farm In Ballinavary
They had at least two daughters, Ella & Josephine who were born in
Canada and came back to Ireland. Their aunt, Mrs. O’Hanlon who resided in
Oregon state brought them back there where they went to a boarding school, in
Portland, Oregon. Later, both of
them came back to Ireland. One of the girls
became Mrs Whitford, Templeshannon, while the other married a Keating of Ballygoman,
Barntown. There are presently descendants of both families in the
county.
Two sisters, Dolores and Fiona
Keating, Coolateggart Taghmon, are descended from one of the sisters
who came back from Canada.
Mrs. May Kavanagh Enniscorthy
is descended from the other sister. She is 90 years old. Nicholas Cosgrave,
Clonhaston Enniscorthy was trying to trace the Keating’s. They were
his forebears.
The Keating’s of Moneyhore are also related to the Keating’s of Ballinavary.
The lawyer, Mrs. Pym of Ballinavary is descended from the Moneyhore and not the Keating family of Ballinavary; the two Keating families are related.
Some Notes on Bishop Keating:
Bishop
James Keating was born, in 1783, at Coolnahorna, parish of Marshalstown, four miles west of
Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.
He was appointed curate in the
mensal parish of Camolin, Diocese of Ferns. He was a powerful preacher and
when coadjutor Bishop Ryan became ill, Fr. Keating accepted and was appointed
coadjutor Bishop. Bishop Ryan unexpectedly died and James Keating was consecrated
bishop on 21 March 1819.
His father, Michael Keating was a Keating of Baldwinstown, south Wexford and this section of the family moved north to Coolnahorna, Enniscorthy, and settled down to farm there. Part of the family moved to Ballinavary, in the parish of Davidstown, some four miles south of Enniscorthy, some members of the family still reside there.
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