Daniel Patrick F. O'Keeffe
1909-1944

 Information on this page is provided for research purposes only.
Current copyright holder information is attached to each full sized image.
For information on reproducing any of the text or images please see the  Copyright  page.

• Daniel Patrick F. O'Keeffe
• Arrangement of naterial
• About the Geelong Lawyers' Collection
• Lawyers and law associations in the collection

Daniel Patrick F. O'Keeffe by Vivian Hill
Text copyright held by Vivian Hill. For more information see the Copyright page

Dan O'Keeffe died at a young age.  He left behind a widow, and two small children.  His daughter, Gabrielle was only 6 months.  He also left records of his legal practice, a practice he had built up rapidly by his skill as an advocate in court.  He kept a cuttings book of some of those cases.  In 1994 his daughter thought there should be some record of her father at the Geelong Court.  She saw the Court's Registrar who referred her to me.  From this chance meeting developed the Geelong Lawyers Collection at Deakin University and the display of photographs of earlier Geelong Lawyers (including her father) at the Court House Geelong.

The cuttings book is part of this collection.  Most cases were during the Second World War.  They are a valuable record of a society with different concerns than those of peacetime.  Crimes were still comitted but there were new ones such as those related to wartime controls on petrol or other breaches of National Security regulations.  Some citizens required the services of an advocate in applications for exemptions from military service because of a conscientious objection to war.

Arrangement of material

The list below describes material held in the Daniel Patrick F. O'Keeffe archive box, which is located at 340.099452 Okeeff Hil/Dpf on the shelves in the Geelong Lawyers' Collection within the Special Collection at the Waterfront campus.  The material has been arranged in date order. 

Date	Title	Item no.
1929?	Photograph at Law Picnic Anglesea when a law clerk [Click on image to enlarge it.]	DO1
1930?	Photograph at Law Picnic Pt. Lonsdale when a law clerk [Click on image to enlarge it.]	DO2
1/3/1938	Photocopy of "The Herald" newspaper report of admission to legal practice	DO3
1940?	Photograph in wig and gown [Click on image to enlarge it.]	DO4
2/11/1940	Photocopy of letter from H.V. Evatt	DO5
2/12/1944	Photocopy of "The Herald Sun" newspaper report of his death	DO6
4/12/1944	Photocopies of "Geelong Advertiser" newspaper cuttings of his funeral and obituary	DO7
9/11/1955	Photocopy of Entry in a Register of Deaths	DO8
2/3/1995	Newspaper cutting from Geelong Advertiser of death notices of D.P. O'Keeffe's wife, Kathleen	DO11
	Photocopied list of Counsel and Solicitors referred to in Daniel O'Keeffe's scrap book	DO9
	Scrap book of newspaper cuttings of court cases in which Daniel O'Keeffe appeared, sample page [Click on image to enlarge it.]	DO10

Additional note:

• Daniel Patrick O'Keeffe is also mentioned in the following archive boxes

            R. Dobson
           - re. statement of Roy Dobson prepared by V. Hill

[Top of page]

Deakin homepage | Library homepage | Geelong Lawyers' homepage | 
Geelong Lawyers' copyright | Library Catalogue

Last updated: 06 May 2002
Page owned by Learning Services and maintained by Learning Services Web Group
Copyright © Deakin University 2002, all rights reserved.

Please direct comments or suggestions regarding this site to lsweb@deakin.edu.au
Deakin University has used all reasonable endeavours to ensure that material contained on this web page (and this website) was correct at the time the page was created and last modified.