Dear Diane, I typed this from the book. Takes me time. Have Carpal Tunnel. It is a real pain. Also, I will send the Keatings in seperate file. Katen is Keating. Also seen as Keaten. Judy This is an excerpt from Michael McCarthy's book entitled "The Irish in Newfoundland" 1600-1900 Their Trials Tribulations, Triumphs. Mass Celebrated at Harbour Main: On Sept 20, the court moved to Harbour Main and the full folrce of tghe law was felt by Michael Katen (Keating) for permitting the priest to say Mass in his fish store and also for attending the Mass in person. He pleaded guilty to both charges and was fined 50 pounds. The Surrogate also ordered that Katen's fishstore should be burnt to the ground and that he must sell all his possessions and quit the Harbour before Nov 25, 1755. At the same court, Michael Landrigan was fined twenty pounds, and had his house and stage burnt. Also fined with Landrigan were Darby Costley (Costello), Robert (Finn), Michael Mooring and Robert McDonald. Their finesw varied from teh pounds to two pounds each and theywere ordered to quit the Harbour at the same time as Katen. On September 21, the court again sat at Harbour Main and , acating on information received, charged another group of Harbour Main men with attending Mass. The official document reads: "At a court held at Harbour Main, September 20, 1755, at which you Charles Garland was Present, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, at which time did appear before us, Martin Donnelly, John Sennot, John Devereaux, Robert Tobin, John Gusho, William Welsh, Tom Ryan, Mick Hanlon, William Murphy, Michael Hannigan, Thomas Connolly, George McDonald, John Rossena, Tom Holden, John Welsh, John Clancy, Robert Breman, all of which are Roman Catholic and servants to Michael Katen and did all join in celebrating public mass in his fish store for which we think proper to fine viz: M Donnelly 1 pound, John Sennott 2 pounds, Devereaux 2 pounds, Tobin 1 pound, Wm Welsh, ryan and Hanlon 2 pounds each, Wm Murphy 3 pounds, Connolly 1 pound, McDonald 2 pounds, Holden 3 pounds, J. Welsh 3 pounds, Clancy 3 pounds which fines the above persons do pay to Michael Katen or order towards making good the damages he received by demolishing his fish room. To Michael Katen of Harbour Main, given under my hand at Harbour Grace 20th of September 1755." The magistrate also ordered that the fines from Michael Katen and the Harbour Main men convicted in the first case should go towards the building of a goal at Harbour Main. This goal would be for securing any vagabonds that should desert from any part of the island. Pedley says that a warship which was at Holyrood came to Harbour Main and hauled Katen's store out of the harbour where it was burnt. Judy Corbett Barker, St Petersburg, FL Genealogy research. Ireland, Newfoundland and the Channel Island of Jersey http://members.aol.com/judyb3753/index.html