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Hi all,

I'm looking for information on Thomas Curran of Dublin, a veteran of the Irish War of Independence and Civil War (1919-23). He was a member of the Irish Volunteers and later the IRA during those years. He later fled to America in the late 1920s before returning a few years later. Thomas William Curran was born 1881 in Dublin and died 1963 in Dublin.

He was married to Anne Power (Annie Power) (1880-1941) in 1902 and they had several children:
James Curran (or Anthony Curran) (1903-1964), William Curran (1905-1977), Robert Curran (1910-?), Thomas Curran (1914-?), and Margaret Curran (1907-1981). Margaret lived in Long Island, New York, and had daughters called * Birdsall and perhaps * Birdsall. She seems to have died in 1981, possibly in Greenlawn, Long Island. Some of the Curran boys in Dublin seem to have become cabinet makers.

Thomas and his family lived at different times in Brian Avenue and Shelmalier Road in Dublin. Any information on Thomas Curran or his family would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Brian


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Thanks for getting back to me Gerry. That's right, my Farrellys were COI, but I'm not too sure how exactly that stood for previous generations. Certainly my great-grandmother, though baptised a Protestant, practised as a Catholic and was married to a Catholic - I think it was the way her mother was COI and her father was Catholic so the boys were brought up Catholic, the girls Protestant. I'll have to do more research to get the ins and outs of it! Hopefully I'll get the certificates this weekend or the start of next week and be able to bring it back a generation or two, perhaps get a link in between the two families. Luckily the government started registering Protestant marriages in 1845 in Ireland, nearly 20 years before they started registering Births, Deaths and Marriages for everybody in 1864, so might be able to go a bit further back.