Looking for information for family history & finding living relatives of CATHERINE PRENDERGAST, born 1820's, married Great-grandfather Mathew O'Keane (Keane, Kane, Cain, etc.) in Accony & Roonah Point regions, between Louisburgh & Clare Island of County Mayo, Ireland. Mathew's family origins unknown. A son, George, was said to have been left behind with PRENDERGAST parents when Catherine & Mathew left for America in May/June of 1848. George was said to have joined army & killed in Crimean War. James PRENDERGAST, a nephew or cousin of Catherine's came to America a generation later to marry a widowed daughter (Mary Jane) of Catherine and Mathew. Catherine & Mathew were teachers (?). Still living in same region in Ireland, Margaret (Gibbons) Scott, her son, Tommie, and other Scott children are distant cousins since, Richard Scott, deceased husband of Margaret, was said to have been great-grandson of Catherine's sister.