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Canada / Re: Dorothy Keating sent to Canada 1894 aged 6
« on: Monday 28 July 25 11:00 BST (UK) »
Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who contributed and shared their research expertise here. Your time and efforts are appreciated.
I'm still interested in Dorothy and her life in Canada but it's just out of curiosity, the Keatings aren't in my family tree exactly. A while ago I discovered that my 3xggrandfather had fathered a child with Mary Keating in 1892. It was a bit of a shock as he was a 60-ish widower and she was nearly 25 years his junior. A second boy was born but shortly died. The three spent most of the next decade in the workhouse in Islington before Mary died of TB in 1902. Their child took himself off to Canada after a stint in the army and now I imagine that he was looking for his half-sisters? He stayed and made his own family.
I didn't know anything about Mary's life before 1892 but found her, with first husband and three older children, in Islington in 1891 I was surprised and curious. It was easy to track the lives of the two boys but the father seemed to disappear - I think he died in 1920 - as did Dorothy, until I found her on a ship bound for Canada. Clearly something happened to shatter the Keating family but perhaps it was already fragmenting if Margaret had been placed in an orphanage by 1891! I expect I'll never know the full story but it's a sad, sorry one.
Thank you again.
I'm still interested in Dorothy and her life in Canada but it's just out of curiosity, the Keatings aren't in my family tree exactly. A while ago I discovered that my 3xggrandfather had fathered a child with Mary Keating in 1892. It was a bit of a shock as he was a 60-ish widower and she was nearly 25 years his junior. A second boy was born but shortly died. The three spent most of the next decade in the workhouse in Islington before Mary died of TB in 1902. Their child took himself off to Canada after a stint in the army and now I imagine that he was looking for his half-sisters? He stayed and made his own family.
I didn't know anything about Mary's life before 1892 but found her, with first husband and three older children, in Islington in 1891 I was surprised and curious. It was easy to track the lives of the two boys but the father seemed to disappear - I think he died in 1920 - as did Dorothy, until I found her on a ship bound for Canada. Clearly something happened to shatter the Keating family but perhaps it was already fragmenting if Margaret had been placed in an orphanage by 1891! I expect I'll never know the full story but it's a sad, sorry one.
Thank you again.
