Patrick Joseph Keogh

Hi, this is also my grandfather. Were you able to find any information and which of my cousins are you?

Hello, Patrick

They were my great grandparents, too. I have some census records on their large family. My paternal grandfather married Jane Keogh, their oldest daughter. She is buried in Sudbury, Ontario with my grandfather and her sons.

Thomas and Anne as well as my great aunt Bridget Agnes are buried in the St Colmcilles RC Cemetery in Skryne. I was there back in 1993. I hope to visit Ireland again within the next few months. (Thomas and Anne also had a son named Patrick who must have been your grandfather, as you say).

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Hello thank you for responding. Yes my maternal grandfather was Patrick Joseph Keogh. He left Ireland and went to Canada, was  a Royal Mounted Policeman (1921-1925 ish) but left after about 4/5 years and went to the United States ending up in NYC. He married my Grandmother, a Canadian.  I assume he went to Canada because his sister Jane was there. Did Jane have a daughter, I have a picture of him with a young girl and was told she was his niece, Eunice (think that was her name). I too go to Ireland (husband's family is there) and went to St Collmcille and saw his brother Christophers grave. We did not see our Great Grandparents, Anne and Thomas' grave though. Are they there too. I would love to find out more and possibly connect with relatives. Can you tell me anything about my great Aunt Jane?

Hi,

This is Pat, daughter of Mary Patricia Keogh Slater (oldest child of Patrick), and granddaughter of Patrick Joseph Keogh.  A few comments.

(1) According to my mother, my grandfather immigrated to Canada in 1918; as the story goes his family had to pass the hat and he left with the clothes on his back.  My mother never learned the full story; my grandfather would not speak of Ireland again and what she learned was from his sisters.

(2) My grandfather left the Mounties and Canada in 1927 when he married my grandmother, Edith Marie English Keogh.  He left because his rank wasn't high enough to marry.  He met her when she was teaching on an First Nations reservation in Saskatchewan (or maybe Alberta?) and was entranced by her auburn hair, much like his sisters.  My grandparents immigrated to Detroit at the time of their marriage, where my grandfather worked in a car factory and my mother was born.  My mother said he loved cars and horses (which his family raised on their farm). 

They later moved to New York City to be nearer my grandfather's sisters, Tillie (Matilda) and Aggie (Bridget Agnes).  My mother's sister, Agnes, was named after my Great Aunt Agnes.  Aggie (Bridget Agnes) worked as a companion for a rich lady, and retired to Dublin, 203 Swords Road, Whitehall, Dublin, about age 70.  My Uncle Tommy (Thomas Keogh, my grandfather's fourth and last child and only son)  and his wife Roseanne visited her there around 1969/70. 

Tillly married Pete O'Grady, a plumber, had two children Anne (called Lily Anne) born 1934 and John, and lived in the Upper West Side in or near my father's precinct,  Tilly was a pastry chef for one of the big downtown hotels (St. Regis?).  Lilly Anne kept in contact with the remaining Keogh family in Dublin after Tilly passed.  When Lily Anne died, her brother John could not find any of the Dubliners contact information.  I am currently trying to find living Keogh family members in Ireland, and would appreciate any information you can share.  Nancy Brennan Kelly, daughter of Alice Keogh Brennan (Jenny and Patrick's sister and Tillie's twin) lived at Sword's Road as of 2003.

(3) My mother spent an extended period of time with my grandfather's sister Jane ("Jennie") in Canada, and always spoke fondly of her . While my mother was there (age seven or eight maybe?), she attended the one-room school house and was able to skip a grade when she returned to NYC.  I think her sister, my Aunt Annemarie was also there with her.  They were there because my grandparents were having difficulties.  

Jennie was 15 in the 1901 census.  According to my mother, Jenny married three times.  Her first husband died in WWI; they had no children.  She then immigrated to Canada, and she married Tim Moslin, who predeceased her.  Her third husband was Tim Moslin, with whom she had Bernice, who would have been around my mother's age (born 1928), Merlin, and Ross.  Ross died, age four, at Bonair, when he fell off a dock and drowned in the river.  Before leaving Ireland, Jenny trained as an RN at St. Vincent's Dublin.  My mother also trained as an RN at NYC's St. Vincent's, graudation in  1948.  My grandfather "threw her out of the house" when she went into training because he remembered the hardships of his sister's training in Dublin.  They reconciled early in her training when he got used to the idea and/or my grandmother nagged him sufficiently.  Thanks for the additional information on Jenny.   I'm putting together a chart compiling information from my mother and the documents that my cousin Mary Campbell McCarroll (Annemarie Keogh Campbell's daughter) has shared, which I'd be happy to share with you.

(4) I have a copy of my grandfather's long-form birth certificate which I will be happy to copy.  He was in fact born in the workhouse in Dunshaughlin, which is now a BnB (see link below).  My husband and I visited it in 2003 when just the house had been converted; the work house itself was still a ruin.  I remember my Aunt Annemarie (my mother's sister, daughter of Patrick) telling my mother about discovering that my grandfather had been born there, and also telling Mom about Thomas and Anne's graves, which I was unable to find in Dunshaughlin.  I found no record of them in the parish record books going back to 1884.  Thanks for the information on their burial site.

https://www.askaboutireland.ie/learning-zone/secondary-students/history…

Thanks for the additional information.  My husband and I spent three weeks in the west of Ireland this summer.  I'm hoping to spend a week in Dublin (in advance of my husband) next trip to do more research.  My son, a librarian, is also studying his paternal family genealogy for his master's thesis.  Who knows, maybe he'll make it to his maternal relatives.  If you ever get to the DC Metro area, I would love to meet you and pool knowledge with you and with the other correspondent on this forum (cousin Mary in Ashburn?).

Pat Slater
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