Keating Ancestry

  This is a photo of our great, great grandmother Mary Maguire Motie.  (Sometimes Maguire is spelled as McGuire). This undated photo is from Ancestry.com, (I've tried to reach out to the person who posted it to find out a date, but I haven't heard back from him.)  Mary was born on December 26, 1828 in Kilrush, County Clare, Ireland.  I have not been able to find her immigration records, but she immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was still a young person.  In fact, several of her young siblings were born in Iowa (sister Margaret was born in 1842 in Iowa), so we know the Maguire family was in Iowa by 1842. Mary married our great, great grandfather, Joseph Motie, in Dubuque, Iowa in 1843 when she was 15 years old; Joseph was 25.  (Joseph had a first marriage, but his wife, Louisa Knott died). Joseph and Mary had a long and fruitful marriage.  They had 13 children, although not all of them survived to adulthood.  I am guessing that this photo is taken of her