McKeon Family Bonmahon, Co. Waterford

[vasaborg]

Anyone researching the Mckeon 's from Bonmahon , County Waterford?

[mckeon123]

are u a mckeon yourself?

[vasaborg]

No my fathers mother was.

[mariemckeon]

An old thread but I'll reply anyhow. I'm researching McKeons, Co. Waterford - what first names/marriages are you interested in? thank you.

[dublin1850]

I have a connection with McKeones from Waterford, originally from Kilfane in Kilkenny where William McKeon was a sub constable in the RIC 1832 to 1862.

Children that survived into adulthood: Catherine, married in Laois, William, married Ellen Thorpe in Waterford; James, joined RIC married Julia Huggins in Cork; Henry my mysteryman who was in the RIC for a short time, on the Goresbridge Census of 1872, possibly married a Margaret Carroll in 1887, after that no idea where he went.

[mariemckeon]

Thanks for posting that.  I haven't come accross any of those names...as far as I know, we have no McKeon Kilkenny connections, that I know of.

[Kiltaglassan]

William, married Ellen Thorpe in Waterford

Marriage - 8 August 1870 at Templeshanbo Parish Church, Co Wexford.
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1870/11395/8184410.pdf
Bola Beg townland
https://www.townlands.ie/wexford/scarawalsh/templeshanbo/ballindaggan/bola-beg/

[Kiltaglassan]

Can anyone make out the rank of William McKeon in the R.I.C.?

Thanks

[dublin1850]

When William the son married, the father William would have been a pensioner. I must confess, I presumed that was what the marriage record said, but now that I look at it, I have no idea what that first word is. Surely not a bad spelling of pensioner?

William the father died at his son in law's home in 1891, but I haven't been able to find a grave. He was C of I and they were not, so there was a bit of subterfuge, including his son in law being described as his 'nephew' on the death record.