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Where did the Irish O'Keeffe family come from? What is the Irish O'Keeffe family crest and coat of arms? When did the O'Keeffe family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the O'Keeffe family history?
All Irish surnames have underlying meanings that can be traced back to their fullest points when the names first appeared in a Gaelic form. The name O'Keeffe originally appeared in Gaelic as "O Caoimh," which is derived from the word "caomh," which means "gentle."
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- First settlers to North America
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Official documents, crafted by early scribes and church officials, primarily contained names that were spelled according to their pronunciation. This lead to the problem of one name being recorded under several different variations, creating an illusion that a single person was many people. Among the many spelling variations of the surname O'Keeffe that are preserved in the archival documents of the time are O'Keeffe, O'Keefe, Keefe, Keeffe, Keefer, Keiffe and others.First found in County Cork, where they held a family seat from ancient times.
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Our PDF Extended History includes the early history!
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our O'Keeffe research. Another 250 words(18 lines of text) covering the years 1172, 1640, 1655, 1670, 1691, 1703, 1740, 1747, 1778, 1791, and 1833 are included under the topic Early O'Keeffe History in all our PDF Extended History products.
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Our PDF Extended History includes the early notables!
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name O'Keeffe. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
In the 18th and 19th centuries hundreds of thousands of Irish people immigrated to North American shores. The early settlers were enticed by the promise of their own land, but they were moderately well off in Ireland when they decided to emigrate. Therefore, they were merely carrying out a long and carefully thought out decision. The 1840s saw the emergence of a very different trend: thousands of extremely desperate people crammed into passenger boats hoping to find any type of opportunity. The Irish of this decade had seen their homeland severely stricken by crop failures which resulted in widespread disease and starvation. At whatever time the Irish immigrants came to North America, they were instrumental in the rapid development of the emerging nations of the United States and what would become known as Canada. An exhaustive search of passenger and immigration lists has revealed many persons bearing the name O'Keeffe, or one of its variants:
O'Keeffe Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Daniel, Eugene, John, Michael, Thomas, and William O'Keeffe, all arrived in Philadelphia between 1840 and 1860
O'Keeffe Settlers in the United States in the 20th Century
- Aileen O'Keeffe, aged 3, who arrived at Ellis Island from Sallins, Co Kildare, Ireland, in 1911
- Annie O'Keeffe, aged 35, who arrived at Ellis Island from Sallins, Co Kildare, Ireland, in 1911
- Angela O'Keeffe, aged 17, who arrived at Ellis Island from Carrigaloe, Ireland, in 1920
- Benjamin O'Keeffe, aged 22, who arrived at Ellis Island from Glountane, Ireland, in 1920
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- Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (1887-1986), prominent American artist/painter and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Miles O'Keeffe (b. 1954), American actor
- Eoin O'Keeffe (b. 1979), Irish composer based in the UK
- John O'Keeffe (b. 1951), retired Irish footballer
- Dan O'Keeffe (1907-1967), Irish footballer universally regarded as the greatest Gaelic football goalkeeper of all-time
- Ned O'Keeffe (b. 1942), Irish politician
- Padraig O'Keeffe (1887-1963), Irish traditional musician
- Kerry O'Keeffe (b. 1949), Australian cricketer and sports commentator
- Alfred Henry O'Keeffe (1858-1941), New Zealand artist and art teacher
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Our PDF Coat of Arms + Extended History product is the whole package all in one. With a full color Coat of Arms along with a very detailed History, full symbolism, bibliography and settlers listed by the centuries.
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- Burke, Sir Bernard. General Armory Of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Ramsbury: Heraldry Today. Print.
- Crozier, William Armstrong Edition. Crozier's General Armory A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor. New York: Fox, Duffield, 1904. Print.
- Woodham-Smith, Cecil. The Great Hunger Ireland 1845-1849. New York: Old Town Books, 1962. Print. (ISBN 0-88029-385-3).
- Chadwick, Nora Kershaw and J.X.W.P Corcoran. The Celts. London: Penguin, 1970. Print. (ISBN 0140212116).
- Zieber, Eugene. Heraldry in America. Philadelphia: Genealogical Publishing Co. Print.
- Donovan, George Francis. The Pre-Revolutionary Irish in Massachusetts 1620-1775. Menasha, WI: Geroge Banta Publsihing Co., 1932. Print.
- Matthews, John. Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book. London: John Matthews, 1911. Print.
- Rasmussen, Louis J. . San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists 4 Volumes Colma, California 1965 Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1978. Print.
- McDonnell, Frances. Emigrants from Ireland to America 1735-1743 A Transcription of the report of the Irish House of Commons into Enforced emigration to America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-1331-5).
- Fairbairn. Fairbain's book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland, 4th Edition 2 volumes in one. Baltimore: Heraldic Book Company, 1968. Print.
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The O'Keeffe Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The O'Keeffe Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.
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