The Birth Date is a rough estimate. See the text for details.
Research Notes
Due to DNA matching and tree work, Other children have been found. The children Cornelius and Margaret show parents as Thomas Keefe and Ann Jeffers while Catherine shows parents as Thomas Keefe and Nancy Jeffers, sister Mary does not list parents on her death cert. but relation is from the graveside burial data for the Burke plot at Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden, MA.
Biography
Nancy (Jeffers) Keefe was born in Ireland.
Nancy/Ann (Jeffers) Keefe, mother of Catherine Keefe and Wife of Thomas Keefe.[1][2]
Sources
↑ Certificate of Marriage: 01-Jan-1842 Parish / District: CASTLELYONS County: Co. Cork Husband Wife Name: Michael Burke Catherine Keeffe Address: Denomination: Roman Catholic Roman Catholic Occupation: Age: Status: Husband's Father Wife's Father Name: Burke Keeffe Address: Denomination: Occupation: Husband's Mother Wife's Mother Name: Address: Denomination: Occupation: Witness 1 Witness 2 Name: Thomas Keeffe Patrick Burke Address: Notes: PRIEST: REV P D E DAY INFERRED:“Mallow Heritage Center, "Church Marriage Record", database, rootsireland.ie (http://ifhf.rootsireland.ie/).”
↑ "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWMF-F4J : accessed 25 September 2015), Michael Burke in entry for Catharine Keefe Burke, 21 Feb 1893; citing Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, v 438 p 76, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 961,511.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Nancy by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Nancy: