Hi Murf
Patrick Keane is mentioned in this “Keane of Kilnamona” site:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~keanet/index.html
Click on the Australian branch (19th- 20th century) and you will see his headstone, plus the marble plaque that he requested in his will. According to that site, it is believed that all of the 13 children of Francis and Anne emigrated, but the mention, in the will, of Ellen McNamara of Ballysheen, 6 mile Bridge, Co. Clare, made me think that one, at least, may have remained in Co. Clare. The Kilnamona baptisms start at 1850, so there is no record of the baptisms of the 13 children of Francis Keane and Anne Shannon.
Looking at the Sixmilebridge baptisms, I saw an Ellen McMahon who is married to Patrick McNamara, Ballysheen. Here are some of the baptisms for that couple: (1) Mary, baptised 24.11.1871; (2) John, baptised 04.10.1873; (3) Francis, baptised 02.11.1875 (sponsors: Michael McMahon, Clugga, Bridget McMahon, Mount Cashel); and Patrick, baptised 09.04.1880. The first of these, Mary born Nov. 1871, was their first child. The civil records show that Ellen McMahon married Patrick McNamara on 03.02.1871, in Sixmilebridge chapel. Patrick, from Ballysheen, is aged 30, a Farmer, son of John McNamara. Ellen, Ballycar, is aged 23, daughter of Francis McMahon; witnesses: Michael Kenny, Anne Crowe.
Ellen is a widow aged 51 in the 1901 census (Ballysheen More; Rossroe DED). Her daughter, also Ellen, married Michael Carmody* in 1919, and he is the informant at the registration of Ellen’s death in 1929 (at age 80).
However, I think Patrick, who made the will in Australia, was related, not to Ellen, but to Ellen’s husband, Patrick McNamara. His father was John McNamara, Ballysheen, and, looking at the Sixmilebridge baptisms, 1840-1864, I see that a John Mac/McNamara and Mary Kean/Kane, Rosroe, had a son, James, baptised on 16.12.1856; a daughter, Bridget, on 01.04.1859; a son, Michael, on 09.06.1844. It may be that the baptism of Patrick McNamara, Ballysheen/Rosroe, went unrecorded. If the age he gives at his marriage in 1871 is correct, he was born in 1841.
If I am right in thinking that Mary Kean, wife of John McNamara, Rosroe, is a sister of Patrick in Australia, then Patrick McNamara, Ballysheen, is his nephew. I haven't succeeded in finding a record of his death (it was before 1901).
*23 July 1919: Michael Carmody, Carron, Clare; occupation: R.I.C., son of Cornelius Carmody, Farmer, married Ellen McNamara, spinster, Ballysheen, Sixmilebridge, daughter of Patrick McNamara, Farmer, at St. Joseph’s, Limerick; witnesses: Daniel Doherty, Carron, Kilnaboy, Clare, and Annie McNamara, Ballysheen.
Sheila