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Family Names of Calvert (Caplin Bay), Newfoundland
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Abt 1796 - 1876 (~ 80 years)
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Edward Keough |
Born |
Abt 1796 |
Co. Wexford, Ireland [1] |
Gender |
Male |
Research Overview |
Caplin Bay, Newfoundland |
- Edward Keough came to Newfoundland from Ireland about 1816 and eventually settled in the area known as Stone Island, on the northeastern headland of Caplin Bay. Some of Edward's descendants have stated that he came from New Ross, Co. Wexford, although recorded proof of this assertion has not been found. It is not known if Edward came alone, or if he was part of a family who settled elsewhere. There are a number of other Keough/Kehoe families with similar paternal forenames throughout Newfoundland, and while kinship with them has been suggested, it has never been proven. Edward Keough is first mentioned in the Ferryland Supreme Court records of 1830 in a case where he and several others were charged with building fishing premises that were allegedly interfering with the securing of fishing nets to the shoreline at Stone Island.
Edward's sons and daughters were all born and raised at Stone Island. However, by the time that they married and started their own families, the trend was to settle further "up the bay". This area, although farther away from the fishing grounds, was much more sheltered than the windswept headland at Stone Island. His sons built their houses and fishing premises at the head of the bay, in a small cove, southeast of the main beach. One son, Philip, eventually moved to Ferryland Head in the early 1870s to take up the position of Assistant Keeper of the newly constructed lighthouse. Edward's daughters also moved away from Stone Island when they grew up. Sarah and Catherine married into the Power family of Caplin Bay and settled close to their brothers at the head of the bay. Mary and Ellen married into the Shallow family of Clear's Cove, Fermeuse, several miles south of Caplin Bay, and eventually moved to Boston, Massachusetts.
All of Edward's children appear to have been received a fairly good education, much better than most of their contemporaries. The Journals of the Newfoundland House of Assembly show that Edward was a schoolmaster on the North Side for a number of years. On December 11, 1846, a school inspector visited "Stone Island Cove", however, his subsequent remarks, of what he observed on that occasion, were not too complimentary. He wrote "A Schoolmaster, Mr. Edward Keough, is appointed, to this very small settlement, with a salary of £8. He shewed me his list of 24 names. He was absent the day I called here, but I waited for his return, and sent out to collect what children could be found. They have been taught absolutely nothing, nor could anything better be expected, from the total absence of every requisite. The appearance of abject poverty was extreme."
Despite this rather harsh report, the Education report published in the 1855 Journal of the House of Assembly shows that "Edward Kehoe" was still on the government payroll as schoolmaster at Caplin Bay North. The enrollment was given as 50 pupils and showed Edward's salary had increased to £12. The fact that Edward was a schoolmaster has led some family researchers to write that Edward may have been a professor in Ireland. However, I believe that it is unlikely that Edward's education ever went beyond the level required to teach basic education. If his roots were in New Ross, it is quite possible that his education was gained and nurtured from within a mercantile family. There are several references to merchants with that surname, usually spelled Kough, who were conducting business out of the inland port of New Ross on the River Barrow. Ferryland Court records show that that George and Thomas Kough & Co., of Ross, Wexford, established and ran a business at Cape Broyle for about three decades - from 1788 to at least 1816.
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Died |
17 Dec 1876 |
Caplin Bay, Newfoundland [2] |
Buried |
Abt 19 Dec 1876 |
Holy Trinity RC Cemetery, Ferryland, Ferryland District, Newfoundland, Canada |
- Headstone - Ferryland RC Cemetery. KEOUGH - Edward Keough, a native of Co. Wexford, Ireland died 17 December 1876; aged 80 yrs, of which sixty years were spent in this country. Erected by his son Andrew Keough.
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No Headstone/Marker - Ferryland - Holy Trinity RC Cemetery Individuals for whom no headstone or marker is visible. |
Person ID |
I229 |
Families of Calvert (Caplin Bay), Newfoundland |
Last Modified |
1 Jul 2016 |
Family |
Margaret "Peggy" Smith, b. Abt 1805, New Ross, Co. Wexford, Ireland , d. 13 Jun 1891, Caplin Bay, Newfoundland (Age ~ 86 years) |
Married |
Abt 1832 [1] |
Children |
| 1. Mary Keough, b. Abt 1833, Stone Island, Caplin Bay, Newfoundland , d. 29 Dec 1886, South Boston, Massachusetts, United States (Age ~ 53 years) |
| 2. Philip Keough, b. Abt 1833, Stone Island, Caplin Bay, Newfoundland , d. 6 Jan 1893, Ferryland, Newfoundland (Age ~ 60 years) |
| 3. Sarah "Sally" Keough, b. Abt 1834, Stone Island, Caplin Bay, Newfoundland , d. 12 Apr 1918, Caplin Bay, Newfoundland (Age ~ 84 years) |
+ | 4. Edward Keough, b. Abt 1835, Stone Island, Caplin Bay, Newfoundland , d. 22 Jan 1916, St. John's, Newfoundland (Age ~ 81 years) |
+ | 5. Andrew Keough, b. Abt 1837, Stone Island, Caplin Bay, Newfoundland , d. 6 Dec 1913, Caplin Bay, Newfoundland (Age ~ 76 years) |
| 6. Michael Keough, b. Abt 1840, Stone Island, Caplin Bay, Newfoundland , d. 27 Apr 1915, Caplin Bay, Newfoundland (Age ~ 75 years) |
| 7. John Keough, b. Abt 1842, Caplin Bay, Newfoundland , d. 2 Apr 1906, Caplin Bay, Newfoundland (Age ~ 64 years) |
| 8. Catherine "Katie" Keough, b. Abt 1845, Stone Island, Caplin Bay, Newfoundland , d. 8 Jul 1883, Caplin Bay, Newfoundland (Age ~ 38 years) |
+ | 9. Ellen Keough, b. Abt 1851, Stone Island, Caplin Bay, Newfoundland , d. 27 May 1902, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (Age ~ 51 years) |
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Last Modified |
19 Jun 2018 |
Family ID |
F145 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Sources |
- [S90] Approximate date based on another recorded event, Reddigan, Kevin, (A date calculated by using a recorded date and a person's age, or by estimating the most likely date, based on other recorded life events).
- [S7] Headstones - Ferryland RC Cemetery, Newfoundland's Grand Banks, (Online database: http://ngb.chebucto.org/Cemetery/cem-ferryland-rc-fer.shtml).
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