Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch
Coagh - Those That Served
Updates for Captain Robert C McKeown
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14/04/2019 Captain Robert MacKeown is known to have served with the 2/5th Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment in the war. He was Chaplain to the Forces (C.F.). Captain Robert McKeown was Mentioned in Despatches.
14/04/2019 The 1911 census does not list Robert as living with his widowed mother and brother at house 10 in Mullaghtironey, Coagh.
14/04/2019 Robert’s father, James McKeown, died on 17th June 1910 in Coagh. He was 74 years old.
14/04/2019 The 1901 census lists Robert C as age 18 living at house 1 in Mullaghtironey, Coagh. He was a student. His father was a farmer and an accountant.
14/04/2019 The family lived at Crumlin Cottage, Coagh.
14/04/2019 Known family: James McKeown, Mary Jane McKeown, John McKeown (born 2nd November 1873), Richard McKeown (born 12th October 1875), Nancy P McKeown (born 27th September 1877), James Burnett McKeown (born 9th June 1880), Robert C McKeown (born 7th September 1882), Samuel E McKeown (born 5th June 1884), Thomas A McKeown (born 19th July 1887), Winifred M McKeown (born 14th January 1892).
14/04/2019 Robert C MacKeown was born on 7th September 1882. He was one of at least eight children, all born in the Coagh area.
14/04/2019 Robert MacKeown was the son of James and Mary Jane McKeown. Samuel McKeown and Mary Jane McCotter were married on 31st October 1872 in the district of Ballymoney.
09/04/2019
09/04/2019 The History of Coagh booklet lists Captain Robert McKeown as having served with the 2/5th Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment in the war. He was Chaplain to the Forces (C.F.). Captain Robert McKeown was Mentioned in Despatches.
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