Richard Keefe (1800 - abt. 1867)

Born 1800 in Ireland

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Biography

Richard was born in 1800. He passed away about 1867.

Sources

• Marriage certificate and records

Richard died before John was married which was 1867.

RIchard Keeffe was described on son John's marriage records as a "miller". We understand from family memories that John was baptised in St Finbarr's Parish Church Cork and that he had some connection to the sea. But no record of a Baptism can be found at St Finbarr's. Richard Keeffe's are hard to find - there are not many in Cork in the first half of the nineteenth century. John was very well educated and was one of the first teachers in the Catholic School at Egton Bridge. The parish priest there when John arrived was called Macartney and he had an interesting history - he was taken prisoner in the Napoleonic Wars. Egton Bridge had a history of Recusancy and John married into a Recusant family meaning they had remained Catholic inspite of penalities and punishments. John married Elizabeth Barker. Her father was a tailor and lived next to the mill at Egton Bridge. He was also a some time shop keeper and owned a row of cottages near the Mill. George Barker and his second wife built a big house in the grounds of their cottages called Esk Villa. Here they took in holiday makers and Canon Caillebert lived there in his old age. This house was left to the Bar Convent in York and became a convent for elderly nuns. It is now known as St Marys. DNA group R-M269