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There is a little more info I could give (eg moved to Wales) but it's stuff you'd already know. Below is a link to a site from which...

I think the trees found by Fearny relate to the Terence born in 1942 not the one we want.

Sorry about that then, I thought it might be after the info Faerny gave. Your mother was Philomena Sheehan? There do appear to be a...

A few things don't seem to match so I may have steered you on to the wrong path. Is the obituary posted definitely your dad's?

Obit. is in the Bham Mail 27 Feb 1995.

It's amazing what you can find out when you start looking. I noticed that the Wells name was passed down as a given name in the...

Many thanks to all of you who helped me fill in a huge gap in my family history…when I started I had no idea that Birmingham played such...

Terence David O'Neill born 1 Nov 1942. Obit. is in the Bham Mail 27 Feb 1995. Irish births are online up to 1925 and marriages to 1950...

Thank you MWS. that gap and my grandparents lives is what interests me. The turbulence of the times they endured.

So it seems you have to bridge the gap between your dad's birth and his dad's. Do you have access to your dad's marriage certificate or...

Tracing Irish ancestors can be a little tricky, there are a far fewer records available than there are for England/Wales. The problem...

A few more views.

There was a mention in the Bham Daily Gazette 10 Apr 1926. Inquest recorded a verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind."

Besides soldiers or sailors, merchant seamen and civilians were detained as prisoners of war. Officers and 'gentleman travellers' on...

The trees I found on Ancestry seem to have him born in Somerset and there is a record of a William Stagg in a Somersetshire regiment...