You might be pleased to know that I have another query regarding this family, or at least the other side of the CANNON links!
Emily CANNON ended up marrying John Edward BEARDSHALL in 1903; a marriage at last, you might say!
But it seems as though the Beardshalls were 'at it' too. I have no idea who was the grandfather of John Beardshall, but I can guess ...
His father, James (Mason?) Beardshall (b.1841 Thurgoland) was a child of Mary Beardshall who appears on both the 1841 and 1851 censuses as the unmarried daughter of George and Sarah HAGUE. I think that the key to this is that when George Hague married in 1818 he married Sarah Beardshall, although I'm a bit flummoxed as to how Sarah would be a Beardshall rather than a Hague if she was born in 1818/19? I suppose that she could have been born just before the marriage and so kept the surname Beardshall. I really think her father was William Hague, but can't be sure.
Anyway, she is defo unmarried in both 1841 and 1851, with children.
UPDATE: Clementina definitely born illegitimately. See HEREANYWAY, my REAL question surrounds the 1841 census return (HO/107/1325/14) and one of the names on it.
As far as I can ascertain, the details are as follows ...
In the 1841 census George and Sarah HAGUE are living in Thurgoland with their children Joseph, Timothy, Joshuah and William, together with their daughter Mary BEARDSHALL and her children Edward, Mariah, James and another child whom I cannot identify. This final child seems to be 11yrs old and is another Beardshall.
So, does anyone have access to the transcript and can tell me who this is, please?
Whoever it might be, he/she does not appear with the family by 1851, although it's quite possibly that by the age of 20/21 he/she would have moved on.
Thanks again,
MT