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16/07/2021 The 1901 census records Thomas as 4 years old. The family is living at Annaloughan, Augher. Thomas senior was a farmer.
16/07/2021 The 1911 census does not list Thomas as living with the family at house 8 in Annaloughan, Augher. His mother was a widow and now a farmer.
16/07/2021 Thomas James Kernaghan was the oldest son of Thomas and Sarah Kernaghan. Thomas Kernaghan and Sarah Cooke were married on 4th June 1895 in the district of Dungannon.
16/07/2021 Thomas Kernaghan was born on 12th May 1896 in Augher, County Tyrone. He was the oldest of at least seven children, all born in the Clogher area.
16/07/2021 Thomas’s father died in the Clogher area on 12th February 1905. He was 50 years old. Thomas would have been nine years old.
16/07/2021 The CWGC record Private Thomas James Kernaghan as the son of Thomas Kernaghan of Annaloughan, Augher, County Tyrone.
16/07/2021 The 1911 census has a possible listing of Thomas, aged 14, living at house 14 in Main Street, Augher. He was working as servant for the McLaren family in Augher.
16/07/2021 Thomas Kernaghan enlisted in Omagh.
16/07/2021 Private Thomas Kernaghan arrived in France with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on 29th August 1914.
16/07/2021 Private Thomas James Kernaghan was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he died on 4th December 1915. Because he is buried in Rouen, which was a ‘hospital’ town, it seems likely that Private Thomas Kernaghan died of wounds received.
16/07/2021 In his will Thomas left all to his sister Charlotte.
16/07/2021 Private Thomas Kernaghan is buried in St Sever Cemetery on the outskirts of Rouen in France. His inscription reads: EVER REMEMBERED BY HIS LOVING BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND BROTHER IN LAW
16/07/2021 Private Thomas James Kernaghan is commemorated locally on Clogher War Memorial, listed as being from Annaloughan.
16/07/2021 Known family: Thomas Kernaghan, Sarah Kernaghan, Thomas James Kernaghan (born 12th May 1896), Charlotte Kernaghan (born 21st July 1897), Mark Kernaghan (born 27th July 1899), Maria Kernaghan (born 31st March 1901), William John Kernaghan (born 4th January 1903), Robert Kernaghan (born 23rd November 1904), Sarah Kernaghan (born about 1909).
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30/12/2015 Last Will and Testament of Thomas Kernaghan:
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30/12/2015 'In the event of my death, I give the whole of my property and effects to my sister Sharlotte. Thomas Kernaghan. No 10660, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. 5th September 1915. '
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