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Very exciting stuff, wish I'd asked more questions when my parents were both alive, but at last I'm finding out loads thanks to you guys. 

Can't wait to find out more.  I just wish I had more to tell you, I'll catch up with my brother and my uncle Christy soon (William's son) and see what I can find out.

Thanks Shane for your good wishes.

It turns out that GillyBW and I are doubly related.  Our Grandfathers, Thomas and William Beahan actually married two sisters Catherine and Brigid Flynn from Mallow, Co. Cork. We've exchanged photos of our grandmothers and the similarity is amazing!

Hi GillyBW

My mam two brother's are still alive, Harry who lives in Essex and Christy who lives beside my grandparents family home in Camac Park, Bluebell, Dublin, your mam might remember it. Charlie, Breda and Liam have all passed on.  Whereabouts is your mum living now?

I never met either of my granddads and my grandmothers on both sides passed when I was 6.  I also lost both my parents very young, so finding all this info out now is fantastic, it's stuff that's been a mystery for years. 

Thanks Obbie for all the info, and GillyBW, nice to meet you.... cousin!

Hiya, thanks for your reply, yep, seems we're related alright!  That's the same William, my mam Olive was William's daughter, she passed away in 1994.  I keep coming up against a brick wall trying to find out what Thomas' wife Mary's surname was.  Also, any idea why he was born in India? Who his father was?

wow, thanks obbie, great info your sending through