Teeling Family Histories

Welcome!

I’ve owned the domain Teeling.com since the early days of the Internet. I worked in Silicon Valley for decades, so I secured the URL way back in 1998.

This page has a bit on my family history for those fellow Teelings from around the world that have made it to this site. Then you can read messages from some of the fellow Teelings who have reached out to me over the years.

My wife’s name is Amy and we have two wonderful children, Gwendolyn (b. 2003) and Aidan (b. 2005). I've lived in California since 1988, shortly after graduating from Boston College.

I was born in Beverly, Massachusetts in August 1966 to Brendan J. Teeling (1938-2021) and my mother Doris. Both were born and raised in Salem, Mass. My grandfather was named Thomas W. Teeling (1900-1988) and his wife was Rose. My great grandfather was also Michael Teeling, and he and his wife Bridget came to the U.S. from Dundalk, County Meath, a town north of Dublin, Ireland and settled in Salem. Michael had a hard life shoveling coal into furnaces of office buildings. My granddad Thomas was the youngest and only child to be born in the U.S., so they must have emigrated in the 1890s.

My granddad was the first in the family to go to college and then became a high school teacher for 35 years in Salem’s public schools. My dad was an M.D. in ophthalmology with his practice on Cabot Street in Beverly for 30+ years. My dad had one brother, Thomas (also a school teacher), who married but died without heirs. I have two sisters, both with children, but no longer named Teeling. As I am Brendan's only son, I felt a duty to keep this little branch of our Teeling family tree alive. Soon it will be my boy Aidan’s turn!

I would love to hear from you about YOUR branch of the Teeling clan, so please add your (short) history below!

Thanks for visiting.