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So that you’ve discovered a powerful candidate in your lacking ancestor, however have you ever gone the additional distance to show that they’re the particular person you’ve been searching for? Have you ever thought of tracing ahead all of the doable candidates to remove all bar one? Have you ever examined contradictory proof and tried to resolve it?

Within the closing a part of this case examine, I’ll dot these I’s and cross these T’s. These are important steps to show a superb case right into a stable genealogical proof.

Beforehand – I discovered a powerful candidate for Mary Jane Hyland, born in Liverpool in 1864 reasonably than in Eire in 1870. Aside from her 12 months of delivery, it matched all the things that I’d established about her origins and her father. I used to be very assured that this was my Mary Jane Hyland. However was it proof?

Partially 3 we accomplished the elimination of all different candidates for Mary Jane Hyland born in Liverpool by tracing all of them and eliminating them one after the other:

Many household historians would suppose this was adequate proof to definitively hyperlink the final remaining candidate with the ancestor below investigation. I urge warning. There’s an extra degree of proof gathering and evaluation that we should undertake first: forward-looking elimination of candidates.

Ahead-Wanting Elimination of Candidates

Ahead-looking elimination of candidates requires that we seek for all older candidates for Mary Jane:

• Are there another census entries involving girls known as Mary Jane Hyland after 1881?
• Are there another marriages involving a Mary Jane Hyland after 1881?
• Are there another deaths involving a Mary Jane Hyland after 1881?

As soon as we create an inventory of potential candidates we then attempt to remove them separately. With time and a little bit effort we hope to go away ourselves with just one credible future Mary Jane, the one who married John Bowers in 1894.

1891 Census

Candidate One:

• Tackle: Leigh Avenue, Warrington, Lancashire;
• Mary Jane Hyland, aged 21, approx 12 months of delivery 1869-1870, single, fatherland Liverpool;
• Dwelling as a home servant within the family of James West, a draper;
• No different members of the family or employees current.

Candidate Two:

• Tackle: Deysbrook Lane, West Derby, Bootle, Lancashire
• Mary Hyland, aged 29, approx 12 months of delivery 1861-1862, single, fatherland West Derby, Lancashire;
• Dwelling as a home servant within the family of William Howard, a grocer & cow keeper;
• No different member of the family or employees current.

1901 Census

No clear matches for Mary Jane Hyland.

GRO Marriages

I looked for all marriages of Mary Jane Hyland in England and Wales between 1881 and 1901, yielding 4 potential candidates.

Candidate Three:

• Title: Mary Jane Hyland
• Date: This autumn 1889
• Place: Ticehurst district, Kent, Quantity 2b, Web page 217
• Partner Title: John Henry Bray or James Herbert Foster

Candidate 4:

• Title: Mary Jane Hyland
• Date: This autumn 1891
• Place: Salford district, Lancashire, Quantity 8d, Web page 12
• Partner Title: William Barton or Herbert Dickinson

Candidate 5:

• Title: Mary Jane Hyland
• Date: This autumn 1891
• Place: Bury district, Lancashire, Quantity 8c, Web page 767
• Partner Title: Patrick Maloney or John Sherry

Candidate Six:

• Title: Mary Jane Hyland
• Date: Q2 1894
• Place: Warrington district, Lancashire, Quantity 8c, Web page 280
• Partner Title: John Bowers or John Ostle

GRO Deaths

I looked for all deaths of Mary Jane Hyland in England and Wales between 1881 and 1901, yielding a single candidate.

Candidate Seven:

• Title: Mary Jane Hyland
• Date: This autumn 1890
• Place: Liverpool district, Lancashire, Quantity 8b, Web page 89
• Age: 28, approx 12 months of delivery 1871-1872

Candidate Elimination

I’m assured that candidates 1 and 6 each confer with our Mary Jane (see components 1 and a couple of). So our goal is to remove as most of the different candidates as doable.

Candidate Two: Goes by the identify of simply Mary Hyland, not Mary Jane. We established by detailed evaluation of the timeline (see half 2) that my ancestor all the time makes use of her center identify Jane, generally utilizing simply Jane and dropping the Mary. I believe, due to this fact, that whereas this candidate has an analogous 12 months and fatherland, the identify proof in all probability excludes her. Eradicated.

Candidate Three: I used the parish register knowledge on Discover My Previous to see the register entry for this marriage. It confirmed that the bride’s father’s identify was Thomas Hyland, not William Hyland. Eradicated.

Candidate 4: I used to be unable to seek out an internet register entry for this marriage, although on Lancashire BMD (http://lancashirebmd.org.uk/) I used to be in a position to uncover that the wedding was to William Barton (not Herbert Dickinson) and that it came about at Church of the Ascension in Salford. My solely possibility to seek out the bride’s father’s identify was to ship off for the wedding certificates. Eleven kilos and some days later I acquired the certificates which confirmed the bride’s father was John Hyland (deceased), a tailor, not William Hyland. Eradicated.

Candidate 5: As soon as once more I used to be unable to seek out an internet register entry for this marriage. Lancashire BMD proved that the wedding was to Patrick Maloney (not John Sherry). Once more, I needed to ship off for the certificates. The bride’s father’s identify was John Hyland, a labourer in a rubber works, not William Hyland. Eradicated.

Candidate Seven: Once more, I used to be unable to seek out an internet parish register entry for this occasion. Being a loss of life I used to be at the very least in a position to ship off for a PDF of the loss of life certificates through the GRO, costing solely £7 and arriving in my inbox inside a number of days. This confirmed that Mary Jane Hyland, aged 28, a hawker of 20 Banaster Avenue [sic], Liverpool, died within the Liverpool workhouse on twentieth October 1890. This was inadequate data to remove her, so I searched the 1891 census on Discover My Previous for anybody with the surname of Hyland residing in Banaster avenue. A household of Hylands have been certainly residing on a Banstre avenue [correct spelling], headed by John Hyland, aged 45, and Bridget Hyland, aged 43 and with two different daughters. It appears very seemingly that this candidate was their eldest daughter. Eradicated.

Nice! So, we’ve eradicated all of the alternate forward-looking candidates. There’s another step we have to take to essentially nail the case – study conflicting proof.

Analyse Conflicting Proof

Trawling via the timeline and my analysis log there are two points which have niggled at me all through this course of:

1. Mary Jane’s age diversified considerably, making it tough to make certain I had the identical particular person throughout all of the data.
2. Mary Jane’s fatherland diversified at completely different instances of her life.

Inconsistent Age

Evaluation of age knowledge: Whereas in Liverpool, Mary Jane’s age as reported by her mom is constant and correct. The Mary Jane residing in Warrington offers always differing accounts of her age. In 1891 she states her age as each 21 and 23 in the identical 12 months, but three years later at her marriage to John Bowers she continues to be apparently 23. On the 1901 census seven years later she has reportedly aged by solely 5 extra years. Her age apparently varies relying on who’s reporting it and even varies when she self experiences it, suggesting that being obscure or opposite about her age was a sample of behaviour all through her grownup life. I believe, due to this fact, that the proof of age variations in not adequate to say that the Liverpool and Warrington Mary Janes are completely different folks.

Inconsistent Place of Start

Evaluation of fatherland knowledge: When put on this context the 1901 census stands out because the inconsistent assertion. This will maybe be defined by Mary Jane having instructed her husband that her household/mother and father have been Irish. Regardless of the purpose, John precisely displays her actual fatherland as Liverpool within the 1911 census. It is going to be fascinating to see what her fatherland is reported to be when the 1921 census is launched in a number of years.

Conclusion

1. The Mary Jane Hyland who married John Bowers in 1894 in Warrington is the one particular person of that identify to state her father as “William Hyland (deceased)” in any data I’ve been in a position to uncover.
2. The daughter of William & Margaret Hyland, born on 18 December 1865 in Liverpool is the one candidate for the spouse of John Bowers of Warrington, and William Hyland was certainly deceased by 1894.
3. Though there are inconsistencies within the said ages of Mary Jane when she lived in Liverpool versus the data discovered for Warrington, there was additionally a sample of inconsistent age reporting in Warrington, so I don’t discover that this could exclude the 2 folks from being one and the identical.

I’m happy that my ancestor Mary Jane Hyland was born on 18 Dec 1865 in Liverpool to William & Margaret Hyland. Till and until new proof emerges to contradict this evaluation, this case might be thought of confirmed!