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That's the same info though, right? Charles Jackson and Ann Evans?

Just because somebody states her mother's "married name" on a document, it doesn't mean she was actually married. ;) The daughter would likely not have known that her parents weren't married anyhow, if that was the case.

If I have the right people in 1861, and it looks pretty sure they must be -- he's the Charles with the right parents in 1851 and 1841 -- then they would have to have married in England, since that's where they were in 1861 when they had a child already.

(Whether the other children were born in England, I wouldn't bet; it's too easy to put dittos on census returns.)

And there just is not a Jackson-Evans marriage. Even allowing for mistranscriptions -- no missing brides or grooms or such, as far as I could see.

So a pre-existing marriage, with Charles and Ann merely shacked up for life, seems a plausible option.


This might be a good bet for birth of son William:


Births Jun 1865
Jackson William Barnsley 9c 123


but I don't see one that matches Lucy c1868. Perhaps she was born after the move to Scotland.

Now ... the page with the Charles Jackson and Ann Oxley marriage in Q1 1859 does only show two names -- possibly an indication of missing names.

The list of Ann Evans-s who married in Q1 1859 has several that were illegible, and for which no link is given to an image. How useful.

So I downloaded the pages at Ancestry, and looked for an Ann marrying in Barnsley. The page is all perfectly legible, and there ain't none.