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I'm hoping that someone might be able to recognise my great x3 grandfather Patrick O'Neill's place of birth from the 1871 census in the image below; on the 1861 and 1881 censuses, it just says "Ireland", and I'm not familiar enough with names in the area to decipher the handwriting.

I'm posting on the Antrim board because his wife Rose's place of birth is Belfast, and their first four children were born in Belfast too, so I wondered if he came from somewhere nearby.

Some time between 1853 and 1855 they moved to Liverpool, and are there on the 1861 and 1881 censuses, although they appear in Salford in 1871 and two of their 12 children are born there.

I'd be very grateful for any help and also to hear from anyone with connections to this family

(the image of the place name taken from image which is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk)

My great-grandfather, Cornelius John Townsend, married Sarah Thompson in 1902 at St Luke's, Weaste, Salford, aged 21; I have a copy of their marriage certificate, and I know that this is the right couple (other family members are sure she came from Penrith, and this is given as her birthplace on the 1891 and 1901 censuses). She does age rather rapidly on marriage, going from 16 in 1901 to twenty in 1902, however..
The problem is, I can't find a trace of him anywhere else. I can't find a birth for him, nor find him on any census. On the marriage certificate, his father is given as James Townsend, deceased, a manager, and his address is given as the same as that of his wife's family. I can imagine him escaping a couple of censuses, but registration of his birth as well?
 
I'm not sure where to go next with this, and the older members of the family don't seem to know anything of his origins. He was an extraordinary man, a steel erector who went from going round with a wheelbarrow and ladder to founding a very successful firm which erected a lot of buildings in the Manchester area after the war ; he was a mayor of Salford, and got the OBE. I just about remember him from when I was very small, a formidable little man.
I've managed to trace other branches of the family back to the early 17th century in some cases, and it seems daft that I can't even start with someone I actually knew! Can anybody help?

I'm looking for the burials of my great x3 grandparents, John and Jane Hurtley. They appear with their three children on the 1851 census in Skipton, where John was a tallow-chandler and china seller, then John and the children appear on the 1861 census for Burnley, where he became a cotton manufacturer. Jane is not there, and as her unmarried sister Elizabeth Shepherd appears to be keeping house for John, I imagine Jane must have died in the 1850s, either in Skipton or Burnley, although I haven't found her death yet in the BMD records.

John died in Burnley in 1881, but is not with his extended family in a very large plot in Burnley cemetery, and neither of them is anywhere else in the cemetery, so I wondered whether he had been buried with his wife, possibly back in West Yorkshire - he never married again. Their children were baptised at New Market Street Zion Independent Chapel in Skipton. Does anyone know whether the chapel had a burial ground, and if so, are there records of burials for this period and is Jane buried there? If there wasn't a burial ground, where else in Skipton would she have been buried?

Jane and Elizabeth came from Gargrave, and I would be glad to hear from anyone researching this Shepherd family too.

Thank you to all the kind people who offer to look things up, by the way. It is much appreciated!

Looking for descendants of Thomas Kay, (born Ramsgreave 1822) married Mary nee Sharples (born Dilworth 1819), lived at Carr Wood House, Hothersall, near Ribchester, between 1851 and 1881.
Thomas was the son of Elias Kay, another farmer, born Ribchester c.1792 (or possibly 1789, meet my brick wall!)

Children Rodger (b 1847), Ruth (b 1849,), Philis (b 1850), Abel (b 1852), Martha (b 1855), Jabez (b 1857), Elias (b 1859) and Samuel (b 1861).

Rodger married Phoebe Bourne, and farmed in the area, Ruth married John Scott, a postman, and also stayed in the area; Abel became a mason and moved to Whitehaven in Cumbria, Martha married Robert Kerfoot and ended up in Bury. Jabez was my gx3 grandfather, and Samuel and Eli became insurance salesmen in Manchester. All except Phylis had several children

I would be very glad to get in touch with descendants of any of the above, as we have a large album of  photographs c. 1850s - 1900s from the Kay side of the family.  All the photos are digitised, and I would be very happy to share them with anyone who can help identify them!