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Thank you all so much for your help. Kew it is then!

Yes, they would normally give place of birth.

Thanks Janice, this is him and his family as my grandmother is his daughter Aileen. The thing is, I cannot go back any further than him as the census only says he was born in Ireland. When I emailed the priest in the church where my grandmother got married, he told me that he had no record of her father John in his parish records. Mind you, Kilkenney has a few parishes! There are so many John Tierneys in Ireland and I have no way of knowing precisely where he came from. Would his military records show this do you think?

Thanks, Janice

Can't see an obvious candidate on Ancestry pension records. His records may be at Kew - for WW1 if he served, or in ref W097 for his previous service. These records aren't online - you would have to go, or get someone to go for you.

looks like them in 1901 image looks like gunner 31 coy.R G A (ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY)
Name: John Tierney
Age: 28
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1873
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Ada Emily
Gender: Male
Where born: Ireland

Civil Parish: Plymouth
Ecclesiastical parish: St James the Less
County/Island: Devon
Country: England
Name: Ada Emily Tierney
Age: 26
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1875
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: John
Gender: Female
Where born: Isle of Wight

Civil Parish: Plymouth
Ecclesiastical parish: St James the Less
Name: Aileen Tierney
Age: 1
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1900
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: John
Mother's Name: Ada Emily
Gender: Female
Where born: Chatham, England

Civil Parish: Plymouth
Ecclesiastical parish: St James the Less
Name: Edward Tierney
Age: 4
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1897
Relation: Son
Father's Name: John
Mother's Name: Ada Emily
Gender: Male
Where born: Ireland

Civil Parish: Plymouth
Ecclesiastical parish: St James the Less
County/Island: Devon
Name: Ellen Tierney
Age: 2
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1899
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: John
Mother's Name: Ada Emily
Gender: Female
Where born: Ireland

Civil Parish: Plymouth
Ecclesiastical parish: St James the Less
Name: John Tierney
Age: 6
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1895
Relation: Son
Father's Name: John
Mother's Name: Ada Emily
Gender: Male
Where born: Aldershot, England

Civil Parish: Plymouth
Ecclesiastical parish: St James the Less
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Eileen

There are 26 John Tierney on Ancestry entitled to an army pension ( British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920).

Have you found him on the Census records - do you know what regiment he was in.

Have you looked at TNA http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm

There are a number of John Tierneys on the Ancestry pension records - some born around the right time. Do you know what regiment he was in, in the 1890's? What was his wife's name and his childrens names?

John Tierney born 1873 in Ireland. Of his 4 children, 2 were born in Ireland but the others were born in Chatham in Kent in 1899 and Aldershot, Hants in 1895. He was in barracks on each occasion. When in Ireland his family's home was in Kilkenney where he married but we don't know if this is where he came from. All we know is he was Irish. Does anyone have access to military records that might tell us more about him?