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Thanks so much for your help!  I have contacted the owner of the tree who put up William Morton Lane Morton's birth certificate. His mother was definitely Mary born in Catcliffe.  He also has the birth certificate for Doris and it looks like Mary has put her brother William Andrew, who was a musician down as the father, probably to make her legitimate.  The certificate says mother is Mary Morton formerly Smith. No marriage for them at all and on his Navy record around the same time he puts his next of kin as sister Mary (not Mary his wife if you believe the birth cert for Doris) William Andrew had previously moved to Scotland but walked out on his family in the 1890s.

The 1911 census has them down as man and wife with Doris the daughter.  I think once the birth was registered they just told Doris he was her father.

The 3 of them moved to St Helens where he was a clarinet player in an orchestra, and they all died there between 1930 and 1961.

A very complicated family I've been told!!

That is fantastic thank you so very much !!

Thanks for clearing that up, I will definitely report it !

My great great grandparents Eliza Ann Hudson and Joseph William Daniels were married in All Soul's Church in 1878.  I have recently found another entry for them in the same year at St Edward The Confessor, Brotherton.  The All Souls entry just says November, with no day.

Was the Brotherton church a different religion? I have never found a baptism for Eliza Ann who was born in Halifax, nor her father Phineas who was born in Northowram according to the census.  I recently met up with a cousin who told me our aunt once said that Eliza Ann was Jewish but non practising, no one in the family had heard of that before!

The church itself has a numbering plan, in the "office" area.
Your reference is from the transcriptions done by Calderdale Family history; I don't know what numbering they used, but at least you know that there is/was a headstone.

It's a considerable acreage; they were clearing it about 2 years ago, but I've not been down since.

What you may be able to do is narrow down the area by looking at photographed (with GPS) graves on find-a-grave and see what numbering the family history gives the same plot. It might at least get you to the correct section. I think section 2 is on the opposite side to the public highway

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2373474/all-saints-churchyard

eg you know the number of this chap; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115341462/aulay-macaulay
search the database for the surrounding grave numbers and work out which way the rows/ numbers are going. I think it was 26 rows counting away from the building, so yours should be nearer the woods.

Pauline

Thanks so much a great help!!