Jane Keating ancestry

Leonie:

The 1854 Griffiths Valuation head of household listing for Co. Longford showed two Robert Keatings both living in Longford Town in Co. Longford. Please see the link below.

Roger McDonnell

http://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths/longford/templemichael.htm

Leonie,

In the spirit of inclusiveness perhaps you would consider making your private family tree on Ancestry public ? 

As regards Jane, have you contacted the RCBI who hold Church of Ireland records or the C of I in Longford ?

Hello -

I just joined up with Ireland XO today. Just happened to see your Keating messages here.

I have a Keating Ancestor, Barnard Keating, who was born about 1780-90 somewhere in Ireland.

He emigrated to New York and married there by 1810.

His parents Hugh and Ann Keating died somewhere in Ireland in 1828 and 1829.

Barnard married Sarah Ann Pearsall. I do not know her parents' names.

My BIG BIG question: Can you tell by these names whether Barnard and his parents were Catholic ?

And what about Sarah ? The old testament name of Sarah seems Protestant to me.

The name Pearsall I know is Norman, as is Keating --- but did they all (the Norman families) convert to Catholicism ? I know that the Pearsall name has alternative spellings (Purcell, etc). It was actually spelled in the family bible as Perseall, but the bible author also used Keten in earlier years, and Keating in later years.

Thanks for the help !

Patty in Los Angeles

Hi Patricia,

I would be fairly confident that Bernard was a Catholic,particularly with a Hugh as father. I need to defer to my husband as regards the Normans (he is away for a few days) but my feeling is that they were also Catholic. I will let you know. You are so lucky to have records from so far back -most people are lucky to get back to mid-1800's.

Dear Leonie,

The best option for progressing your research is to refer to the parish registers, which are available from Longford Genealogy Centre, email longroot@iol.ie. It has most of the church records of the county in a database. There is a fee but it depends on the nature of the search, and the advantage is that you can enter into a dialogue with the centre.  The alternative is to use the website rootsireland.ie, which is a subscription site.

Keating is an unusual name in Longford - there were only four listed in the Tithe Applotment books, 1823-'35. Using Griffith's Valuation online is agood advice for the post-Famine period.

With regard to the religious denomination of surnames, many in Ireland can be either Protestant or Catholic, and most given names are interchangeable.

I assume George was stationed in Longford town where there were two barracks - cavalry and artillery. That could help to localise the search to Templemichael parish, which includes the town.

Kind regards,

Martin Morris

A recent book by myself and a colleague on memorial inscriptions in Longford town has one Keating gravestone located in the old disused Presbyterian churchyard and a second one in St John's which is mostly but not all Anglican - will have a look. If I remember correctly they were in the building / glazier business, Thanks, LB