Mary Ann BENNY

[mickawinn]

I have previously posted under the name Mary Ann UREN but it now appears that she might have been the daughter of Francis BENNY and Mary Ann UREN. She married William Joseph HADDEN in 1880. I had assumed from her marriage certificate that a) she was a widow and b) that her father's name was Francis UREN but a search for confirmation has proved fruitless. The BENNY family appear on the 1861 census and can explain the marriage discrepancies, ie the maiden name and possible confusion over her father's name or is this too greater leap.
I have found her brother William's death but haven't been able to trace the rest of the family after the 1861 census. Can anyone help?

[Kay99]

In 1871 Joseph Benney age 13 born St Austell was a cook on a boat called the Brenton?

G10 Piece 2261 Folio 61

Kay

[Kay99]

You may have found a Mary Ann listed as Binney born 1855  and living with her grandparents William and Grace in 1871 in Bideford?

Kay

[chempat]

Is this the marriage that you are referring to, in Islington?

Marriages Sep 1880
xxxx  Benney    Mary Ann        Islington   
BOWMAN    Frederick         Islington   
Dudley    Annie         Islington   
xxxx  Hadden    William Joseph         Islington   

[mickawinn]

Yes that's the one.

[chempat]

So just to get sorted, this is them in 1881:

1881 Census RG11/269/94/ p 1
18 Herslet Road

Joseph Haddon Head 31  Foreman In A Dairy  Lincolnshire?
Mary Ann Haddon wife 26 b St Austell Cornwall
Edith Haddon 20  sister   Cornwall
Elizah Haddon 14  dau  b Stockton, Durham
Mary. I. Haddon    6  b   Middleboro, Yorkshire
Joseph Haddon    1 b  Islington, Middlesex

[CaroleW]

The 1880 marriage cert does show her as a widow aged 25 - father Francis Uren occ miner

[chempat]

I thought that mickawinn thinks the information on the marriage certificate is wrong, and she gave confused information as to her father's name and any previous marriage.

Mickawin,
Have you got any birth certificates of children, for her maiden name?

[CaroleW]

There is no marriage 1841-1861 for a Francis Uren

The Uren/Benney marriage was in 1851 so no question of illegitimacy

Completely baffled as to why she would use her correct birth surname but show herself as a widow and use her mothers maiden name for her fathers name

It was either one heck of a hen night or she was totally confused