Missing the obvious or not?

[Horsley2016]

do you mean this one!

Marriages Jun 1870 
Kennedy    Mary        Liverpool    8b   318    
Smith    Samuel         Liverpool    8b   318

Ah! I see my mistake!!! 

[candrjm]

This might be worth a closer look!

Birth (no mother's maiden name recorded so possibly illegitimate child of Ellen McGrady):

MCGRADY, JAMES        -      
GRO Reference: 1874  D Quarter in LIVERPOOL  Volume 08B  Page 177    

Is this the family in the 1881 census:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27L-MPVR






 

[Millmoor]

Following on from the above post  there is this baptism:

St Nicholas ,Liverpool

Born 23 Dec  1874 Baptised 24 Dec 1874

Jacobus McGrady Mother Helena McGrady (No father shown).

(On the same page of baptisms it looks like she is recorded as a Godmother of Joseph McDonell, baptised the following week).

William

[navarrom]

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