Michael & Mary Keady - my grandparents- had 10 children. They were next door neighbors in Furbo. Michael's family farm was in the Ballynahoun townland & Mary's in Shaunarihogue townland (my spelling is not exact) but the two farmhouses only a few minutes apart so they grew up together.
The Gibbons, (Mary's grandmother) owned a tea/coffee house in Galway city in the later part of the 19th century but everyone else, Clancys & Keadys were farmers. The Clancys were originally from County Clare but the story was, they were evicted from their land in the 19th century & moved to farm in Furbo. There was a story that there are Keadys in Moycullen, county Galway are related to the Furbo Keadys. My great grandfather was John Keady who I think was the first to farm in Furbo. I think he died in around 1933
Michael & Mary had, 10 children, they were;
John 1915 -lived on the farm in Ballynahoun nearly all his life, bachelor died in the 1980s
Michael 1916 - same as John, took over the ownership of the farm when my grandfather Michael senior died I think in November 1955
Peter & Patrick (twins) 1917- Peter was a carpenter & married & raised a family in Ballybrit, Galway City. Pat was also a carpenter & moved to Hanwell, west London & raised a family there
Briget/Delia 1919 - married Owen Coyne in the early 1950s & raised a family in County Galway
Thomas 1921 - moved in the 1950's to Evanston, Illinois & raised a family. He was a builder
Catherine 1923 (my mother) moved to London in the 1950s & married & raised a family
Mary 1925 -moved to the USA in the late 1940s, married Don who had a French Canadian background & raised a family in Connecticut. I think Mary spent her last years in Utah
James 1927- moved with Tom to Chicago in the 1950's & raised a family there, His last address was in Lake in the Hills which is on the outskirts of Chicago city
Theresa 1936- The baby of the family. she was convent educated in Galway, & moved to England where she ran her own hotels near Southend in Essex & later in Cornwall. She & her husband Tony (who was Danish) had a bad car accident in about 1993 & she later bought a home in Spain for retirement. She had no children
I never heard of a baby in 1938, I don't think my mother ever heard of such a pregnancy. The only way that could happen was if Delia got pregnant while living at the farm & the baby was put in my grandmother, Mary's name & then adopted. But my mother would most likely notice the physical signs of pregnancy even if the matter was top secret & not discussed in front of the rest of the family. My mother, Catherine, often talked about events when she was growing up & something like that would have been one of her stories if it really happened
