The Diggings, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 30 April 1853, p 10, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article114836087:

The Rev. Dr. Grant, who has lately returned from Europe and now stationed as resident clergyman at Bathurst, lately visited the Turon. The Rev. Dr. was accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Keating, also of Bathurst, and the Rev. Mr. Murphy, of Carcoar, and was highly pleased to see many of those places pointed out to him of which he so often read with admiration whilst in Europe. As the Turon has now obtained a world-wide celebrity for its vast auriferous treasures, it will not fail to attract the tourist's curiosity.

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A Prayer-Calendar of Deceased Priests & Deacons in Australia 1788-2009, compiled by W.T. Southerwood, Sixth Edition, 2009, p 52: date of death erroneously given as 23 April 1874.

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Fr Denis W. Martin, Priests of 1928, Brisbane, 2003, pp 217-219:
Mons. Edmond Keating

[...]

Edmond, or 'Ted' as he was always known, came from the Darling Downs. He was one of the eight Keating children and was born at the family home Fairview at Cabarlah outside Toowoomba in 1898. Four of the children were to embrace the religious life.

[...]

There were two other Fr Keatings in the Archdiocese but they were not related. They were Dr Thomas Keatinge who departed from Bishop Quinn for the United States and died in 1877. And there was the young Paul Keating, curate at Sth Brisbane, who died in July 1919. His Parish Priest, Francis Dorrigan, followed him to the grave two weeks later. Both were victims of the pneumonic influenza which swept the world.

(Reproduced by permission of Fr Denis Martin.)

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Denis M. Long, Pioneer and Early Priests, Archdiocese of Brisbane, Deceased or retired by 1929, 2021, p 61:
Fr Thomas Keating

Thomas Keating was born the son of John and Bridget Keating at Kilballyowen in the diocese of Killaloe on 1 May 1838. He entered all Hallows Missionary College in 1857 from Mt Melleray and was ordained at All Hallows in 1862.(1)

As with all Quinn's Rebels, Rev Dr Neil Byrne has well researched and written about the life and ministry of Thomas Keating. From Dr Byrne's work I draw most of my information.

Thomas Keating was a very promising youth from Killaloe whom James Quinn discovered at All Hallows College. He did not sail with Quinn's party in 1860 but remained in Dublin at St Lawrence O'Toole's Seminary to act as Brisbane diocesan business agent and to pursue postgraduate studies. In 1862 he was awarded a Licentiate in Theology from Newman's Catholic University. … He sailed for Australia as chaplain on the immigrant ship the Beejapore bringing with him his sister, Mary Mahony and her husband John and family in July 1863

During 1863-1864, Keating worked on the St Stephen's Cathedral staff with Frs Michael Renehan, Robert Dunne and James Connolly. He held the position of Chancellor and Bishop's Secretary. … Keating disagreed with Quinn on many issues, especially the financial operation of the Immigration Society. By August 1864 he had negotiated a temporary transfer to the Bathurst diocese headed by Quinn's brother, Matthew.(2)

While he continued to criticise Bishop James Quinn, he felt it prudent to leave Bathurst. Bishop Polding offered Keating the recently vacated Chair of Theology at St Mary's Lyndhurst. While in Sydney Keating made many friends.

In March 1867, six Brisbane priests arrived on his doorstep hoping to follow his example of relocating to Sydney.(3) They had left Brisbane illegally. When the six priests did not receive faculties to work in Sydney, they were advised to make a new start in America.

The six Brisbane priests set out for America via Ireland on 30 March 1867. Keating left Sydney on 23 June 1867, proceeding to Ireland and Rome to plead his case. Finally he accepted the invitation from Bishop Conroy, of Albany diocese in America to work there.

In that diocese he was appointed the first resident priest in the new parish of Newport. He arrived there on 14 November 1868.

For three years Keating would again play the schoolmaster dedicating himself to the reeducation of the Newport congregation to a more traditional understanding of the pastor-people relationship. In January 1872, he was given the pastorate of one of the senior posts in the diocese, St Mary's Hudson.(4)

Fr Thomas Keating served as Pastor of Hudson for five years.

At the age of 38, he died of an embolism of the heart on Sunday 22 April 1877. Following the Requiem Mass celebrated in St Mary's Church, Hudson, by Bishop Conroy, a tribute to Father Keating was paid by one of the Brisbane rebels, namely Father Matthew Charles Devitt, pastor of Cooperstown in that diocese. Fr Keating was buried in St Agnes Diocesan Cemetery at Menands in Albany County, New York USA.

Cf. Proceedings of the Brisbane Catholic Historical Society, 1998 Vol VI, pages 48 to 54.

Footnotes
1. Kevin Condon cm, All Hallows Missionary College 1841-1891, 1986, student 520, p. 310.
2. Dr Neil Byrne, Albany Quartet, Proceedings of the Brisbane Catholic Historical Society, Vol VI, pp. 4 to 8.
3. Ibid. p. 49.
4. Ibid. p. 51.

Reproduced by permission of Fr Denis Long.