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KEARY, EDWARD (1793-1866)

KEARY, EDWARD, hotel and tavern keeper; b. Ireland, c1793; m. 1st, 1818, Catherine Power, of Nelson, and 2nd, 1836, Elizabeth (Baldwin) Griffin, wid/o Thomas Griffin; d. Chatham, 20 Jun 1866.

Edward Keary came to the Miramichi around 1816. For many years he lived in Nelson parish, where he was in a business partnership in the 1820s known as Keary, Hannon & Close. He later held a parish appointment as a ferryman. After the failure of Joseph Cunard & Co., the assignees leased him the Chatham hotel formerly owned by John Hea, which then became Keary's Hotel. The 1851 Highland Ball was held there, but Keary was enumerated as a tavern keeper in the census of that year, and the hotel was known mainly as a drinking establishment. It was open for business until it was consumed in the Chatham fire of 1 November 1865, only a few months before his death.

Keary's first wife, Catherine Power, died in 1835. There are baptism records for six children born of this union between 1820 and 1832. In 1851 six younger children, who were evidently from Keary's marriage to Elizabeth (Baldwin) Griffin, were enumerated in the census. Among them was Thomas F. Keary, who was a retail merchant in Chatham in 1877 and later the proprietor of the Keary House hotel in Bathurst.

Sources

[m] official records [d] church records / Fraser (C); Gleaner 16 Feb 1847, 10 Feb 1851, 4 Nov 1865; Keary family data; Mercury 14 Mar 1826; tombstone (Nelson, re. Catherine Power Keary)


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