Keating Ancestry

  In honor of Mother's Day, I am focusing on one of the many fantastic Mothers in our family history. This year, I am choosing Bridget Creagh Keating, the mother of my dad's grandfather, Edward Michael Keating, and the mother of Mary Keating Motie, the grandmother of Ann O'Brien.    (For those of you who would like to know connections to Felicite, Bridget was the mother-in-law to two of Felicite's grandchildren, Eleanor and George. Did Bridget know Felicite? They could have overlapped in Davenport, perhaps crossing paths at the Catholic church, but...probably not.)   Bridget was born in Carrigaholt, County Clare, Ireland on February 1, 1838 to parents James Creagh and Margaret Gibson.  Bridget had several siblings including Margaret, Martin, Mary and Michael.  The big Irish famine was in 1847, so Bridget was a young girl when that happened.  Far western County Clare was devastated by the famine, so Bridget and her family were absolutely impacted by that event and the fa