Kilmallock Union workhouse

[Sinann]

I thought they may have been in the work house because she was a single parent maybe. I’m guessing there is no way of finding out who his father was. Or even if Nora got married later on. As I thought she must have got married for her name to have changed to Buckley.
I really appreciate all your help thank you

I assumed she was a single born Nora Buckley when I saw the birth cert but if she is Nora Shanahan daughter of Michael etc than she married William Buckley.
It just doesn't add up
Did anyone ever say what happened to Nora Shanahan's husband, did he join the army perhaps? If he was away when William was conceived and born it might explain how she came to be having a child with no husband/father named.

[Sinann]

Did William ever get married, it would be interesting to see who he put as father (if any) on his marriage cert.
If he married in Ireland before 1944 the cert should be online.

[Natalie89]

Yes he did get married to Margaret Charley on 30th November 1943 in limerick

[Sinann]

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1943/08793/5178527.pdf
father's name blank.

Apart from your family information that Nora Buckley was Nora Shanahan there is no evidence that it's the same woman.
It is interesting that she should call her son William, the same name as the marriage between William Buckley and Nora Shanahan.
It all begs the question why is there no earlier children to the marriage of William and Nora, where were they at the time of the 1911 Census, and if it is the same Nora what became of her husband.
Assuming it is the same woman something significant must have happen between husband and wife.

Do you know if William lived with his mother?
You have family who remember her, did she live as a single/widowed woman?

[Natalie89]

I can’t seem to find anything on nora Buckley Or Nora shanahan like her death or marriage certificate My mum remembers a grandad figure but it wasn’t William Buckley’s real father she remembers him saying his surname could of been Allen

[Natalie89]

Also Nora had a daughter called Nancy Buckley but I can’t find anything about her

[Sinann]

I posted Nora Shanahan's marriage cert earlier.
If Nancy was born after 1919 her birth cert won't be online yet and there is a good chance her name is Ann.
I don't see a death for Nora Buckley.
Where did William and Nora live?

[Natalie89]

Sorry I must of missed that il look now and they lived in Charliville