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Galway / Re: Keady's of Furlogh - Barna - Galway - Ireland
« on: Tuesday 05 April 22 10:16 BST (UK)  »
Hi Damian,
 
I was a bit quiet as in hospital for surgery, pretty routine but crowds out other things for a while.
Family legeng is that our great grandfather John Keady was from Moycullen & migrated to Furbo to be a tenant farmer. Landlords were like vampires to their tenants sucking out all the money & leaving tenants in poverty . Around 1900, the UK government organised a big land purchase scheme throughout Ireland. Most tenant farmers bought out their landlord with re-payment spread over 40 years so our family stepped up in the world. Our
Grand Pa Michael was a really good farmer, cattle trader & poteen maker. For years he had a still & made a tidy profit. My mum told me,Grand Pa was illiterate but he used to go to the bank for loans to buy cows & sell onwards after fattening them.it helped ge had a big workforce of children to help out on the land  I think he was well respected in the community. Our Granny Mary was a bit like, Mrs Browne of Mrs Browne's Boys, a  real character, very opinionated & very funny if you were not on the wrong end of her tongue. Ireland was very sexist till recently so Granny was  a lot less bossy to the male side of the family but tough on her girls. Everyone in our village was deeply Catholic at the time & Granny was worried about her girls getting involved with men
, That is why aunty Theresa could not mention you to her as there would be a huge row.  My mum & your mum were really close, not sure if my mum knew about you or not. Knowing my mum she would have stuck by Theresa if she was told about you, no moral  judgments. It would have been good to have grown up with you as I eas an only child . I liked Granny though,  very entertaining to be around. It was a saying in the family, the Keady side of our family were mild tempered & the Clancys like Granny had the hot tempers.

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Galway / Re: Keady's of Furlogh - Barna - Galway - Ireland
« on: Friday 25 March 22 06:45 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Damian,
It would be great to share the photos of aunty Theresa with you. As i said i also have an old address in Marbella for her

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Galway / Re: Keady's of Furlogh - Barna - Galway - Ireland
« on: Friday 18 March 22 18:12 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Damian,

I came across some wedding wedding photos for my parents in1960 with your mother, Theresa as bridesmaid.

I was last in  contact with her about 15 years ago when she was living with her husband Tony  in Casa Hoeflo Spain 29600.


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Galway / Re: Keady's of Furlogh - Barna - Galway - Ireland
« on: Sunday 23 January 22 14:40 GMT (UK)  »
Michael & Mary Keady - my grandparents- had 10 children.  They were next door neighbors in Furbo. Michael's family farm was in the Ballynahoun townland  & Mary's in Shaunarihogue townland (my spelling is not exact) but the two farmhouses only a few minutes apart so they grew up together. 

The Gibbons, (Mary's grandmother) owned a tea/coffee house in Galway city in the later part of the 19th century but everyone else, Clancys & Keadys were farmers. The Clancys were originally from County Clare but the story was, they were evicted from their land in the 19th century & moved  to farm in Furbo. There was a story that there are Keadys in Moycullen, county Galway  are related to the Furbo Keadys.  My great grandfather was John Keady who I think was the first to farm in Furbo. I think he died in around 1933

Michael & Mary had, 10 children, they were;

John 1915 -lived on the farm in Ballynahoun nearly all his life, bachelor died in the 1980s
Michael 1916 - same as John, took over the ownership of the farm when my grandfather Michael senior died I think in November 1955
Peter & Patrick (twins) 1917- Peter was a carpenter & married & raised a family in Ballybrit, Galway City. Pat was also a carpenter & moved to Hanwell, west London & raised a family there 
Briget/Delia 1919 - married Owen Coyne in the early 1950s & raised a family in County Galway
Thomas 1921 - moved in the 1950's to Evanston, Illinois & raised a family. He was a builder
Catherine 1923 (my mother) moved to London in the 1950s & married & raised a family
Mary 1925 -moved to the USA in the late 1940s, married Don who had a French Canadian background & raised a family in Connecticut.  I think Mary spent her last years in Utah
James 1927- moved with Tom to Chicago in the 1950's & raised a family there, His  last address was in Lake in the Hills which is on the outskirts of Chicago city
Theresa 1936- The baby of the family. she was convent educated in Galway, & moved to England where she ran her own hotels near Southend in Essex & later in Cornwall. She & her husband Tony (who was Danish) had a bad car accident in about 1993 & she later bought a home in Spain for retirement. She had no children

I never heard of a baby in 1938,  I  don't think my mother ever heard  of such a pregnancy.  The only way that could happen was if Delia got pregnant while living at the farm &  the baby was put in my grandmother, Mary's name & then adopted. But my mother would most likely notice the physical signs of pregnancy even if the matter was top secret & not discussed in front of the rest of the family.  My mother, Catherine, often talked about events when she was growing up & something like that would have been one  of her stories if it really happened 

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