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Thomas Laird McCausland was born to William & Sarah Dunne Laird-McCausland in 1891 in Castlederg, Urney Parish, Tyrone Co, Ireland

1901 resided in Castlederg, Urney Parish, Tyrone Co, Ireland

*Religion Protestant
height: 5' 3"
*Hair color Fair
*eye color Fair
*His middle name might have been Alexander.

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*Thomas'a's mother Sarah died at early age, children were ages 5 to 11.Thomas was about 10 years old.

*As per a letter written by his sister Ida in 1965 before she passed away in 1967:" My poor her father had a hard during his widowed years, and thought it better to emigrate and take the boys out later, as at first they were to young".

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**Emigrated to America arrived 3 May 1909, Manifest for California - Sailing from Londonderry

Name: McCausland, Thomas
Gender: M
Age: 17y
Married: S
Ethnicity: British
Place of Residence: Irish Tyrone, Ireland

Thomas Laird McCausland age 17 in 1909 line 28. Thomas was on his way to his fathers house. His father is William Thomas, McCausland living on Market St and it was an Aunt who paid for his ticket

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WW11 Draft Registration: April 26, 1942

Name: Thomas Laird MacCausland
Address: 552 Berlin Road
Clemeton, NJ
Age: 45
Born: Ireland
Date born: July 4, 1896
Lives with : Nora Mae MacCausland
Employer: Baldwin Locomotive Works --Eddystone, PA
Address: Baldwin Locomotive -Eddystone, PA

Race: White
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 120 Lbs.
Complexion: Ruddy
Physical Characteristics: Scar, right leg from shrapnel wound

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Markings on Headstone:

Thomas L. MacCausland
Pennsylvania

MU 1 CL
20 Division
World War 1

July 1, 1897
April 23, 1943

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