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Excerpt from John Keating and His Forbears
It thus happened that upon the arrival Of John Keating's father in France in 1766, in order to establish his social status in the land of his adoption, he brought with him proofs'of his paternal and maternal ancestry for ten pre ceding generations, and these in part have been preserved, though some were destroyed as a measure of protection during the French Revolution. Thereby he not only gained Official recognition Of his rank from the Crown, but, what is of more interest at the present day, confirmed the racial origin Of his particular family line as traced in its own tra ditions. The purely Gaelic families Of Ireland, Of course, need no such proof, nor indeed do some of those of Anglo Norman stock whose names alone indicate their origin, such as the Eustaces, Graices, Purcells, Montgomerys and Graces; but the Keating name, because Of its Irish deriva tion, might prove misleading, especially as all who bear the name in our day are not, as it seems, Of the same race.
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