Hi again
Well, I never discount any possibility, but I have no indication of it. As far as I can see , the line down from them were all married in C of E churches until one got married in an RC church in the late 1940s - as far as I know she was the only one in the family up till then to do so and she remained C of E, it was her husband who was RC.
If you aren't terminally bored with my puzzle, I would be interested in your opinion on a straw I found floating by (that I have yet to follow up properly).
The only reference to Mary Ann's father is on her marriage certificate. John Brown, a tailor .
So far I haven't found anything in directories available on the web for a tailor of that name. I was ferreting round the 1841 census for something totally different though and spotted a tailor in Pilgrim Street in Newcastle - name of John Brown, with a wife called Priscilla ( or Prefrilla as Ancestry has transcribed it in their own inimitable way) . Neither of them were born in the county of Northumberland and it looks like Priscilla was born in Scotland.
Class: HO107; Piece 845; Book: 3;Folio: 16; Page: 25;
Its a fragile wee straw, but they were of the right age to be her parents.
If you have access to the images, do you know what the letter after the word tailor ( it looks to me like a J) signifies? It appears again a few lines down for another tailor.
Boo
Boo,
Is there a possibility that her parents were Roman Catholics ?
MD