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I believe this lady may have died in Ellmesmere in either 1979 or 1989. She has spent her childhood in a childrens home in Dublin and moved to England in 1952 or 1953. If anyone know anything about this lady please contact me.

Is this one possible?

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005
about Mary Theresa O'Regan
Name: Mary Theresa O'Regan
Birth Date: 10 Oct 1931
Death Registration Month/Year: Jan 1986
Age at death (estimated): 54
Registration district: Chester and Ellesmere Port
Inferred County: Cheshire
Volume: 35
Page: 10

Do you know that she didn't marry?

Why do you think the death was 1979 or 1989?

Yes this is the person I was looking for
I didn't know is she had married or not, but had a feeling from the history that I already knew about her that it was possible that she didn't get married.
I am now trying to find anyone that may have known her.
Thank you very much for your help - I was her daughter.

Hi Gemma, but you said she died either in 1979 or 1989 and the one I have found died in 1986. So how do you know I have found the right person? I don't want you to make a mistake. If this is your mother, it is pretty important to be sure you have the right person.

I assume that you have your own birth certificate, and your mother is Mary (or Maureen?) O'Regan, unmarried at the time.

I think you need to get the death cert - the one I have found could have been the wife of an O'Reagan, and not the one you wanted. The death cert will also tell you who registered the death, and that might then give you a hint as to who knew her. It could have been a sister or brother, for example.

This is the one, I suspected that Maureen had died between those dates.
I was adopted at one years old, she had wanted to keep me but due to her religion and the fact that she had no family, she was given no choice. I did not attempt to search until after both my adoptive parents had died.

The birth date was correct, the name correct and it is the information I had already found.

It is so sad that she never married, therefore never had relatives. I hope that she had a happy life. Oddly enough I only once went to Ellsmere Port a few years before she died - it is such a shame I didn't know then what I know now.

Thank you very much for your information and help.

Oh that is so sad, Gemma. Would you like to search for a grave? Although she was likely cremated at that time. Did she have siblings?

It might be worth finding out if she was on the electoral roll, and who she was living with. To get a better picture of her life. There are people on here who can look up electoral rolls for you.

I don't want to appear pushy, but you might find something that indicates what her life was like.

Kind regards

Margaret

Thank you Margaret for your help. She did have a sister, but unfortunately she died in a fire when she was young. The history of Maureen was very sad to say the least. I intend to try to piece her life together - as far as I can tell there is no living relative on Maureen who would have known her.

Thank you for helping me -

I wonder if there might have been an obituary report in the local paper? Or even the report of a funeral, and who attended.

I intend to contact the local churches where I feel sure ,due to her back ground, and letters that have been handed onto me, she would have attended. Hopefully there will still be someone who can either remember her or be able to give information from parish registers. I will also look for local papers at that time where a mention of a funeral might be, and as you suggested the obituaries of that time. What I would really like is to find someone who has a photograph, I would love to know if I look like she did - I am now older than she was when she died. I will hopefully find her memory.
By my adoption she gave so much to me, but I have often wondered what it did to her.

I know I keep thanking you for taking an interest, but my current family think I am interested only in medical records, it is far more now, and just the last few days has made me realise how important it is to just find where and who she was.,
Jacqui

Perhaps she was a Catholic?

www.catholic-history.org.uk/cfhs