Rev William Keating
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William
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Thomas
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Keating
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Australia
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Rookwood NSW
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Australia
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Biographical Notes
Religious Memoranda. Roman Catholic, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 October 1874, p 6, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13347068:
October 2.—An address and a purse of sovereigns were presented, at Parramatta, to the Rev. T.W. Keating, about to remove to Sydney.
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Roman Catholic Clerical Changes, Evening News, Sydney, 13 February 1878, p 3, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107944745:
The following changes have recently been made:—[...] Rev. J.W. Keating, Balmain to Bombala; [...]
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Deaths, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 July 1895, p 1, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14008454:
Keating.—July 16, at Parramatta, from injuries received through a railway accident, the Rev. Thomas W. Keating, eldest son of Robert Keating, of Ballaluby, county Tipperary, Ireland. R.I.P.
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Death of Father Keating, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 20 July 1895, p 15, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article111110047:
In our last issue we recorded how Father Thomas Keating, of Mount Carmel, received the injuries which led to the amputation of his left leg in the Parramatta hospital. Father Keating had been on a visit to Parramatta, and while waiting at the station for the train to Sydney, occupied himself reading his Office. He was taken by surprise when the train started, but being a good athlete, made little of the risk of jumping on one of the car platforms. Unfortunately he slipped, and his left leg and right foot were badly crushed. He was taken at once to the Parramatta hospital by Fr. Thomas O'Reilly, P.P., and other kind friends, and the combined skill of five surgeons was pressed into service in the hope of saving his life. The first amputation operation not being attended by the expected results a second one was performed, and then all recognized that the end was near. From the time of the accident until he expired on Tuesday, the suffering priest had at his side Father O'Reilly, Father Sheridan, or the Sisters of Mercy, and no form of tender care and devotion was omitted. Father Keating, who had hailed from Waterford College, and who was, we believe, a native of the county in which he prepared for the priesthood, had been connected with the Diocese of Sydney for something like twenty years, and it was a pathetic stroke of fate that he should have drawn his last breath in the town in which he had zealously worked many years ago with Monsignor Rigney, and where he was best known and most esteemed. His last appointment was as Father Collins's assistant in the parish of Mount Carmel. He was a warm-hearted, simple mannered and charitable priest, a fervent friend, and a patriotic Irishman. He was rarely missing from any Irish National meeting or demonstration. Outside his priestly office he enjoyed a reputation as one of the finest horsemen of the colony.
The Dirge and Requiem this (Thursday) morning in St. Patrick's, Parramatta, with the Cardinal Archbishop presiding, drew together a large number of the city and suburban clergy. Father J. Collins, P.P., Mount Carmel, was the celebrant of the Mass. Requiescat in Pace.