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all i know is he was a foreman working for international alloys norfolk then went to oxford in the 1940s any info would be great thank you.

What connection have you ??

The surname sounds Irish . Have you looked though for his birth on FreeBMD

do you know when he was born was he born in norfolk

Nothing showing on the 1939 register for Norfolk.

Roy have you a rough idea of his age ? edit is the 1920 you have for him on your tree accurate or just a guess please?

Roy, to the left of these boards is a link under "Tools" called "Help Clinic" - follow the advice on there and give us whatever information you already have on Thomas Morahan. Doing that helps us to help you.

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1356658
To which I'd added.

Now that RRose has highlighted this one, the PM received from Roy
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Possibly born 1920s, name suggests he could have been born in Ireland.
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How certain are you of the spelling, or is it phonetic? How did come by his name? Is he someone's presumed father or is there some other connection such as a 'marry-in'?

hopefully someone has advised Roy to reply in the thread :-)

Roy, reading between the lines, was he possibly someone's father?

searching at http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

there is no record of a Thomas Morahan born, married or died in Norfolk or Oxford or anywhere near

the help you will get at this website involves tracing people through records like births, marriages and deaths, electoral rolls and the like ... public information rather than private knowledge about a person

it's possible that someday, someone who knows him will do an internet search for the name and find your message, but it is not probable

if you give any formal info you have about him ... his age when he was last known, and where, anything you know about his parents or brothers and sisters ... how sure you are of his name and the spelling and what the source of that info is ... someone may be able to help

there are two members at this site who have a Thomas Morahan born 1917 in (one says in Londonderry) in their family trees

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/tree/results/morahan/thomas

you could try to contact them to ask whether he worked in Norfolk

one of those members was born in the 1940s ...


that birth actually seems to have been registered as Moraghan

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FBBF-553

Name Thomas Patrick Moraghan
Event Type Birth
Event Date Oct - Dec 1917
Event Place Londonderry, Ireland
Registration Quarter and Year Oct - Dec 1917
Registration District Londonderry
Volume Number 2
Page Number 142

and that name matches a marriage in Birmingham in 1946

death registration:

Name: Thomas Patrick Moraghan
Birth Date: 8 Sep 1917
Date of Registration: Jun 1982
Age at Death: 64
Registration district: Birmingham
Inferred County: West Midlands
Volume: 32
Page: 0838

very likely not the right man but this shows who the man in the family trees at this website was

three members here have Thomas Moraghan born 1917-1918 in Londonderry in their trees as well

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/tree/results/moraghan/thomas

one person is the same as the one I mentioned who has him in their tree as Morahan ... several people (whom records show to be closely related to that Thomas) have the wife in the 1946 marriage in their tree, but some, including that person, do not ... this suggests that that Thomas may have had children before that marriage ... so he might in fact be of interest ...


a Thomas Morahan also recorded as Moraghan married in Londonderry just a little earlier in 1917 ... very possibly the father of the Thomas born in 1917

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FYX7-5YC
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FYX7-5YZ

Yep. Roy was advised about his replies way back in November - and he has opened the message. I'll send another note. :-D

Roy - rather than send people PM's please add to the thread

'that's all the info I have'.

i apologise for the mistakes i have made i am new to this i will try and get it right thank you for the help

Roy - Anything that appears in blue on the boards is usually a hyperlink. JoonieCloonie has included several in her post.

In particular, click on the one repeated below and select the Thomas Moraghan born 1917-1918 in Londonderry to send the tree owners a message.
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/tree/results/moraghan/thomas
As long as they still have the same linked email address, they will receive your message

You could ask them if they know if 'their' Thomas ever worked in Norfolk or Oxford. Do bear in mind if he was the reputed father to a child outside of his marriage, assuming the one found by JoonieCloonie is correct, they may not be aware of the existence of the child.