An ongoing journal of genealogical and family discovery.
A parent category for various bloodlines that I’m researching.
I’ve been busy transcribing a long treatise on the life and family of John Keating†of Philadelphia, a “Wild Goose” whose family left Ireland after the failed Jacobite / Williamite War and settled in France. He proceeded to serve in Read More …
The annual reunion of the “Frostburg Maryland Keatings” will be held on Saturday, 27 June 2009, in Glenelg, Maryland. Although most of the attendees are the families of John and Sara (Pope) Keating, descendants of John and Julia (Hyland) Keating, Read More …
Francis J. ‘Mike’ Keating, 80 Athol: Francis J. ‘Mike’ Keating, 80, of 739 Daniel Shay Highway, Athol, Ma., and former longtime Fitchburg resident, died Thursday(Jan.31) in the Quabbin Valley Healthcare Center, Athol, Ma., after an illness. He leaves his wife Read More …
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 …
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 …
Lewis E. Rummer Services will be conducted Saturday at 3:30 p. m. at the home of the father-in-law, John F. Counihan, 866 Maryland avenue, for Lewis E. Rummer, who died yesterday afternoon at the Maryland State Hospital, Sabillasville. Mr. Rummer Read More …
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 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 …
Miss Mary Elizabeth Keating, eldest daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth F. Keating and the late William Devereux Keating, were married at St. Paul’s P. E. Church, Centreville,Thursday at 2 o’clock p. m., by the rector, Rev. James A. Mitchell, to Ex-State’s Read More …
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 …
Visitors Honored With Surprise Family Reunion Mr. and Mrs. William J. McGrath and daughter, Theresa Ann, of Upper Darby, Pa., were honored at a surprise family reunion held in Constitution Park, Sunday. Mrs. McGrath, the former Miss Catherine Counihan, is Read More …
Mrs. William McGrath Mrs. Catherine M. McGrath, 82, died yesterday at Memorial Hospital. She had been a patient at the Cumberland Nursing Home. A native of Frostburg, she was a daughter of the late John and Mary (Keating) Counihan and Read More …
Former Resident Dies in Philadelphia, PA Frostburg, Md., March 25 – John Counihan, aged 71 years, a former well known resident of this place, died Monday evening in Philadelphia at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Katie McGrath. His body Read More …
It was 23 years ago, at the age of 68, that Jeremiah A. (Jerry) Counihan began thinking about plans for the “tennis match of the century” in 1984. He was to have been the principal in that match, called by Read More …
Jeremiah Counihan Jeremiah (Jerry) A. Counihan, 91, formerly of 224 Harrison Street, died yesterday. He had been ill three years. Born in Frostburg, he was a son of the late John and Catherine (Keating) Counihan. Mr. Counihan was a member Read More …
John F. Counihan John Francis Counihan, formerly of 231 Race Street, died yesterday. Born in Frostburg, he was a son of the late John and Catherine (Keating) Counihan. His wife, Mary T. (Hart) Counihan, also preceded him in death. Mr. Read More …
This image is from the wedding of my grandparents, John William Keating and Sara Elizabeth Pope. It comes from a scanned negative and is a group shot from the wedding and reception that I’d never seen before scanning it in. Read More …
Died HYLAND.–Emma, 564 East 138th St., June 5. Funeral tomorrow, 9:30 A. M. Source: Died, The New York Times, New York, New York, 7 June 1917. Available via the New York Times archives.
Mother M. De Chantal Keating. Mother M. DeChantal Keating, for thirty-four years head of St. John’s Home for Boys, Albany and St. Mark’s Avenues, Brooklyn, died in that institution on Monday. Mother Keating was in her eighty-fourth year, and was Read More …
Mary Merrill Durst [Frostburg] FROSTBURG – Mary Merrill Durst, 93, formerly of 73 Durst Lane, Frostburg, died Monday, Jan. 12, 2009 at the WMHS Frostburg Nursing and Rehab Center. Born Feb. 26, 1915 in Avilton, she was the daughter of Read More …