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Hey everyone, thanks for all of your input. I guess I may never be able to prove that they are the same person, but having been part of other tintypes my family has passed down I will still preserve it.  Thanks for all the guesses though. The certainly seem to share facial features, I believe.

I wanted to follow up with a full version of the tintype for everyone to see if it helps in any way. Not sure when this is taken but I would assume 1860's-1870's because it's a tintype but I could be wrong.

Thanks again everyone. (had some fun resizing the image, hope this upload's correctly)
 

You may already have noticed these census entries
Your family in

1861 3373/45/14
Bryan and Cicely with children plus two Conway visitors
John Conway 18 yrs and Honora Conway 16 yrs

Then there is
1851 2320/480/3
Leeds
Michael Timlin 30 yrs
John Timlin 25 yrs
William Timlin 80 yrs
Sarah Timlin 63 yrs
Timothy Conway 36 yrs
Margaret Conway 28 yrs
John Conway 8 yrs
Michael Conway   7 yrs
Honor Conway 5 yrs
James Conway 1 yr

The Conway children have mmn Timlin (variation if spellings) and the Conway/Temlin marriage was 1842

Unfortunately, I can’t see Bernard/Bryan in 1851

This is really amazing heywood. Thank you for finding this and posting it here. This helps expand the Timlin family further in Europe for me. I'm happy to find that my Timlin family appears to be in Leeds at the time of the Irish famine, having left Ireland early I suppose.

I had actually never discovered that 1851 Leeds Census. It's a lot to think about and particularly interesting as you point out because the records have Margaret Timlen and John Conway marrying in 1842 in Leeds. I'll likely order that marriage record as I did Benrard/Bryan and Selina's. I'll have to see if Margaret's father is also listed as William Timlin on her marriage record too. I am certainly beginning to believe that John & Honor(a) Conway have more than a visitor relationship to Bryan/Bernard, because by comparing 1851 and 1861 census I would imagine that Bryan/Bernard is an uncle of John & Honor(a) Conway or some other type of relative.

William Timlin is listed as 80 years old in the 1851 census. If William is the father of Bernard/Bryan cited in his marriage certificate and possibly of Margaret. If so that means that William had them quite late in life, in his late fifties. I'm not ruling out the possibility, but maybe he is another patriarch of the family. This Timlin family seems big, but their living in Leeds gives me a better chance at finding out more information about them.

Thank you all again for everything and all of the information you've provided me. I appreciate the miracles that happen on rootschat. 

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Wonder if 'aunt' died in Phildelphia did her death registration list any parents?

Exactly, Mary only seems to appear in this 1910 census.  A death record would likely unravel that information about parents as you suggest, maybe even city directories. And yes, all the spelling variations are an extra twist, I believe that my ancestors name was Bernard, but since it's such a unique name the records call him Bryan and Bryand in an effort to simplify.

Hi everyone, it's been quite a while since I've made a post on rootschat, but lately I've been pulled back into my genealogy research and I remember what a great resource and how friendly everyone here is, so I have come back to ask for assistance.

I'm trying to find out more about Mary Clarke, aunt of Thomas Timlin. I haven't been able to get anywhere. She appears in the 1910 US Census in Philadelphia living with her nephew Thomas, his wife Mary, and their 9 children. Being an aunt, she has to be a sibling of either Thomas' mother or father - Bernard/Bryan Tim(b)lin or Selina/Cecelia Filbin. I'm curious to uncover the mystery of which.

Mary, according to the 1910 Census Mary Clarke was 65 years old, born approximately 1845 in Ireland. She is widowed and immigrated to the US in 1870. Bernard/Bryan and Selina/Cecelia lived in Leeds, England before immigrating to America and living in Philadelphia. According to the marriage records Bernard's father was William Timblin, a farmer. Selina's father was Patrick Filbin a laborer.

I'm hoping that finding some information about Mary could help lead me towards the early records and information regarding the families of Bernard and Selina before they were ever married. I'm going to take a guess that Mary is related to the Tim(b)lin family, and that she likely didn't have any children but I could be wrong. If anyone has access to any records or can point me in the right direction I appreciate the help.

I've been thinking about researching naturalization records for members in the Timlin family, does anyone know how I would go about the process of researching naturalization records of Philadelphia residents in the late 1800's?

Thanks again. Glad to be back

I never knew, and neither did my parents, or their parents. It just so happened that I am named the same name as my great-great-great-great grandfather Jeremiah Devine.

When I contacted a distant relative, she gave me his name, and the information she knew about him, which was not much. I have been trying and trying to track Jeremiah down and learn as much as I can about him. I was wondering if anyone here may be able to find anything new, as another pair or two of eyes always helps

Jeremiah was born in Ireland in about 1843 in Ireland. He came to Nova Scotia and married Mary Harriet Gough. My ancestor, their daughter, Margaret Ann Devine was born January 17, 1865 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Margaret had a brother John, who is assumed to have been born around 1872, according to a death certificate for John.

Without knowing many of the details inbetween, Jeremiah ended up in Boston, Massachusetts in 1893. According to cemetery records, he is burried at Mt. Benedict Cemetery, West Roxbury, Massachusetts beside his wife Mary. From the cemetery records, he was burried on November 28, 1893. Mary, his wife, died in Boston years later on April 13, 1904.

I do not know much about what happened inbetween his years in Nova Scotia, and his death in Boston years later. I was wondering if any of you experts may be able to find more information, or point me in the direction of how to obtain more information of the man for which I share the same name.

I thank you all for the time you put into research,

Jeremiah