John Keating

  Medical Notes:

83yo, exhaustion, heart failure, morbus cordis. Duration-18 mths. Occ: farmer (as was his father James). Mother-Johannah Dwyer. Medical attendant: Francis W West. Informant: Thomas Keating, son, Edgecliffe Rd, Woollahra, Sydney, 27/3/1909.

  Noted events in his life were:

• emigrated: "Panama", 14 Sep 1849. 29 May-Honora 22 farm servant, husband John 26 farm labourer, son William (infant), single sister in-laws Mary 28 dairymaid, Helena/Ellen 20 house servant, brother in-law William 22 carpenter left Plymouth. Arrived Sydney on 'Panama', reel 2459.

John married Honoria (Nora) Hickey, daughter of James Hickey and Mary Aileen Williams, in 1845 in Limerick, Ireland UK.⁶ (Honoria (Nora) Hickey was born circa 1827 in Kifling, Limerick, Ireland UK, died on 17 Sep 1891 in Minto, Sydney, NSW Australia and was buried on 19 Sep 1891 in St Johns Catholic, Campbelltown, Sydney, NSW Australia.). The cause of her death was Heart Disease.