Richard Aldworth became Lord Donerails. He is also associated with Rock Mills in Kildorrery. There are plenty of Keeffes and O'Keeffes in Kildorrery. Rock Mills is a village with...... a mill. A huge big mill. The mill is later owned by a family called Oliver connected to the Aldworths by marriage. The Aldworths built the town/village of Newmarket.
Mount Keeffe is associated with lots of Keeffe's. Manus O'Keeffe and Charles O'Keeffe MD and Arthur O'Keeffe. Also Fitzgerald O'Keeffe of Spitalfield House.
This is the first find for me of a Richard Keeffe associated with Mount Keeffe and it is of interest. The date is 1842. He is listed as a farmer, he has become bankrupt and so maybe he lost the land?
I willn try to find Mount Keeffe in Griffiths and see who owned it. The house and estate did stay in the Keeffe family.
It is the connection to Kildorrery that is interesting. It sounds a bit like Kerry, which was something Kath believed about John Keefe which does not make sense.
There is a Richard Keeffe in Rock Mills in 1860 who made a donation to a Charity - Newspapers section of FMP. This does not automatically mean he was the miller of Rock Mills because Rock Mills was a village with a mill......... but he was in the village.
ReplyDeleteI hardly remember writing the above.... anyway I was trying to find more about the Youghal connection with has the ship connection, the mill connection and even the earthenware brick making connection all going for it. Somehow this ended up with checking Newmarket again. This is going to be long winded! I went back to look at Richard Keeffe's baptized at St Finbarr's. My thinking is that if John was baptized there then his father probably was too. I tracked down one Richard looking born 1806 baptized at St Fins. and found his parents and siblings.... surprisingly the final child in this family group of 6 - one Margaret Keeffe was actually born in Scarteen Street Newmarket. So this family (John Keeffe and Mary Sullivan) had a child called Richard and the family ended up in Newmarket. I don't know if this leads anywhere but I will check out the rest of the family and see where it leads.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember what I've written here either! That's why it's good to have saved stuff here so we can look back. I looked at where Kildorrery is and it's on the N72 road with Kanturk and Newarket west of it. There is of course Richard Manus O'Keefe in Kanturk who married Mary Cudmore in 1831. A Richard baptised St Finbarre's is well worth investigating. I've always wondered if Aunty Kath thought John was baptised there, but maybe it was actually a relative such as his father who was born there. I look forward to the enxt installment!
ReplyDeleteThe O'Keeffe's of Newmarket were quite well to do and educated - there are records for Manus, Charles and James L. Doctors farmers and vets, JPs. But big but. I think I read somewhere that this family converted, eg you find Richard O'Keeffe Churchwarden. So not our ancestors. I don't think John came from a C.of I. family. So I have always ignored them. But one of our Richard O'Keeffe's in Griffiths valuation is at Newmarket at Scarteen Street. We now know that this family came from Cork city with a John as the father - but from St Marys parish not St Finbarrs.
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