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Trying to find birth record of joseph moughan died 1Q 1945 aged 54

Have you looked on free BMD? -
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/

hi

the only one I could find was a bit wrong age wise

Joseph Mougham born 1896 West Derby Lancs 8b page 469

Ann

For Ref.?????
Irish 1901 census only Joseph Mounghan, not found on 1911 census.Age slightly out.
Patrick Moughan (head) Farmer aged 32 years.
Margret " " wife Aged 34 years.
Joseph " Son Aged 4 years.
Patrick " Son Aged 3 years.
John " Son Aged 0 years.
R.C. Living at No, 1 Killavally, Newtown, County Westmeath.
Lily.

Do you have any idea of where he was born?

I do not have access to the 1911 census and have not found a Joseph Moughan in the 1901 census.
My late father in law, son of the said Joseph Moughan spoke of his grandmother as being Irish therefor it is possible Joseph was born in Ireland.

Ah.
In that case, both the 1901 and 1911 Irish census are both free and the site contains a wealth of interesting information here:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/

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Happy hunting :-)

And Irish civil registration indexes are here -
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails&c=fs%3A1408347
An index of Ireland civil registration including births, 1864-1958, marriages, 1845-1958, and deaths, 1864-1958.

Hello Malcolm

Nice to find someone else researching the Moughan name!

Mine have been variously mistranscribed as Maughan, Mougham, Manghan, Monghan etc.

I'm thinking this is your father in law:

Births Dec 1914 (>99%)
Moughan Joseph Midwood Selby 9c 1964

If you can confirm that ??????......................then these appear to be his parents:

Marriages Dec 1913 (>99%)

Midwood Mary A Moughan Selby 9c 1875
Moughan Joseph Midwood Selby 9c 1875

Which could well mean that Joseph is around in the England 1911 census & finding him might help to pin down
his place of birth as already said. You can do free searches on the 1911 & then some kind person with a sub (which I don't have) might look at the transcript for you.

Any other snippet of info you have would help -any idea of siblings or parents names?

Got to go now but will look in tomorrow & see if I can help anymore.

Julie

Thank you for the information I will try this.

Thanks but I do not believe this is whom i am looking for.

Did you search the free Irish sites that I gave?

I have tried searching the irish sites you gave.
Only Joseph Moughan I have come across was born around1897 there for would appear to be 6 years younger
than the Joseph Moughan I am looking for.

Sometimes six years is close enough. With death registrations, the information given is only as accurate as the knowledge of the informant.

Thank you I will Try and find other links.

Sorry I didn't come back before now - been offline for a while. Malcolm I did see your post confirming the details I posted (presume you deleted your post as it was personal information).

The best thing you could possibly do now is to get the marriage certificate of Joseph Moughan and Mary Midwood. This will give you their ages & place of birth & Joseph's occupation plus their father's names & occupations. All that info will help to find Joseph in the Census' and hopefully then his birth record.

Julie

Thanks,
I plan to do that.

Malcolm

Do come back to this thread when you've got the certificate Malcolm. Post all the details & we'll help you try and find him!

Julie