I am trying for more information on my husband's Greatgrandfather, Thomas O'KEEFFE (variant spellings) born 05 April 1843, Bruff, Limerick. Think his parents may have been Edmund O'KEEFFE and Bridget nee McMAHON.
About 1860 he went to Cok and joined the militia where he met his future wife, Catherine O'NEILL (again variant spellings) Her Parants may have been Michael O'NEILL and Margaret nee WHITE. Thomas and Catherine married 01 June 1862 in Kinsale, Cork.
Later they emmigrated to Melbourne, Australia where Thomas joined the Taranaki Militia and after training was shipped to Taranaki, New Zealand to fight in the New Zealand Land wars.
Their 9 children were born in Christchurch, New Zealand where Thomas and Catherine settled after his time was up in the Militia.
Thomas died 1918.
I would like to find out more about this family in Ireland and would welcome information from any living descendants. All replies answered.
Shyrlee Roberts
Coastalskipper
Monday 29th Apr 2013, 03:19AMMessage Board Replies
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Hi
Thank you for your message.
I have forwarded your query to a volunteer in the area who may be able to offer some assistance.
Kind regards,
Genealogy support
cynoconnor
Thursday 30th May 2013, 11:41AM -
Hi Shyrlee,
Apologies for not getting back to you before now. Do you have any address in Bruff to go on. If you do we may be able to narrow down the search. There is a free site called historicgraves.com which may help you. If you put in Search, graveyard search, Country - Ireland, County - Limerick and Town - Bruff, you will get up 6 graveyards in the parish of Bruff. Select each one in turn. Substitute Grange for Bruff (2 graveyards), Meanus, Tullybracky and Knockainey for further graveyards in the vicinity of Bruff. All these graveyards have been surveyed and digitally recorded. Regretfully we do not have the resources to go through each one but you should find this site easy to use and wonderfully informative.
Kind regards
Maurice
Bruff Reaching Out
Maurice,
Thursday 21st Nov 2013, 03:53PM