Thank you very much for your help. I knew that one of the two Hugh's who died in 1850 or 1851 had to be the son and other the father from what I could access from my location, on-line but guessed wrong as to which year was for which. I didn't find the peculiar typed transcription for Coyne as Caris (probably scribbled as Coine--having seen this type of scrawl before in U.S. census records, where a's and o's are alike and r's and n's ditto, and e's can be confused for "s's". Oddly I'd looked for spellings as "Coine, Coin and Cain" on the census records but it didn't occur to me at that time to look for n transcribed as r, in addition to an a for an o. What I have found for Maryann Coyne was she was on the 1851 census as "Mary Coyne" a servant to an innkeeper and his family, John Bickley of the Roebuck Inn at Upper Penn civil district of Wolverhampton. By 1861, when her oldest son John was born she was married to Michael McInerney and they had been married in England. There is only one marriage record thus far found that might be hers: for a Mary Ann Langford to a Michael McInerney and it was Q1, in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England. McInerney wasn't in Wolverhampton on any other records, but there was a Langford family and some went from Wolverhampton to Northhamptonshire and two died by 1860. A John Thomas Langford/Longford died in Oundle in Northamptonshire, Q1, 1857. A Thomas Langford died in Wolverhampton, Q4, 1857. A Thomas Langford was married to an unknown person by the registry entry I found, in Q2, 1857. Was this the same Thomas Langford who died in Q4 of that year? I don't know. My best guess is Maryann (she went most often by Maryann in the U.S.--as per later marriage and other records) was married briefly before she married, Michael McInerney, the only husband by whom she had children. The couple then went northward, but what year, I do not know. I know that they emigrated, separately, arriving on ships that went from Liverpool to New York City and when she arrived he already had a position, with the help of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) in Northumberland County, PA. He had to work for a few months in the U.S. to earn passage for her and their children. When she arrived, they did not stay in New York. She, and her two oldest sons arrived in January, 1866 and by October, 1866, her oldest daughter by Michael McInerney, Harriet, was born in what became Locust Gap and baptized at St. Edward's Church in Shamokin (baptismal record), Northumberland County, PA. Maryann lost an infant son, Michael, soon after arrival in New York, born premature, probably from the stress of the voyage. Michael McInerney was not originally a miner--he and his father and brothers had been farmers. Maryann told her children that they had learned that mining paid well and it was possible to save up and buy a farm after spending a few years in the coal mines in Pennsylvania. The area where he was a miner was regarded as generally better for workers because the AOH was strong and aggressive there (this was one of the headquarters towns of the "Molly Maguires") and the mines had multiple owners competing for workers, unlike some other areas where one mining company controlled all the mines, the town stores, etc.. Regarding other family deaths, here's what I've found that might be family members: Michael Coyne aged 35 (born about 1835/6) died Q1, 1871, in Wolverhampton; James Coyne, aged 58 (born about 1826) died Q4, Stafford in Staffordshire; John Coyne aged 37 (born about 1835/6) died Q4, 1882 in Wolverhampton. It looks like Denis Coyne, the twin brother of James went to Durham--to mine coal, by 1861. In 1851, he was a lodger at 54 Barry Street South, St. Peter Parish in Wolverhampton, working as a common laborer. Then, Dennis Coyne, aged 48 (born about 1825/6) died Q3, 1872 in the Aukland District of Durham, England. For marriages I have two possibilities for John Coyne (maybe his first wife died in childbirth?--who knows?) to Bridget Conroy, Q4, 1860, in Wolverhampton, and then to Mary Finnety, Q2, 1862 in Wolverhampton. I have a Michael Coyne married to Margaret Magowan, Q2, 1861, Wolverhampton. I'm guessing at the wives' names since they were listed separately in the on-line index, but the same page of the same volume, same quarter and year. There is also a possibility that the widow of Hugh Coyne remarried? I have found a record of a Mary Coyne who married Q2, 1853 in Wolverhampton to possibly a John Belton (same vol, page, quarter and year). The identity of the second wife of Hugh Coyne as a McNichols/McNicholas definitely helps place the family in Ireland. Again thank you very much for your help. If this reply allows people to find more on this family, I'll be doubly grateful. We've been trying to find my husband's Coyne cousins for several years now.
