Re: looking for relatives in Chicago area
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In reply to:
Re: looking for relatives in Chicago area
2/20/01
Concerning the O'Keefe family in Hobart, Indiana: My grandfather was Thomas Patrick O'Keefe of Knockown (near Dungarvin), married to Hanorah McGrath of Waterford.The children were Thomas, Helen Bridget, (my mother), James. Mary, Julia, John and Leo (twins), Michael and a twin who died as an infant. They were married in Chicago at around the turn of the century--my mother born in 1906.Most of the family is still in that area, although all of these listed are now gone.Grandmother had one brother, Thomas McGrath, who with wife and two children (Thos. and Eileen) lived and died in Chicago.Grandmother had one other sister, Margaret, a spinster.Grandfather' s brothers and sisters were Margaret (Maggie, married to John Keating, and residing on Laflin Street in Chi.), Katie (unmarried and living with Keatings), Simon, (Waterford--often visited the states), Brigid,(mother of Hannah-married to a Power-died in Ireland about 5 years ago) and Tom Walsh (died about 3 years ago), and Mary, (also married a Power-no relation-still residingin Kilmeaden, Waterford). Two other siblings, Patrick and Nora, I know nothing about.