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Thanks! I've only just discovered this connection, and am intrigued. My grandfather had Melton as his middle name, and we'd been trying to find out where it came from. It was a bit of an eye-opener that it was his mother's legal husband's name, and that he and all his siblings were illegitimate! She had always projected an image of stiff respectability and as far as we had always understood, was married to my great-grandfather. We had known nothing of a previous marriage, let alone that she had got away with bigamy!

Thomas Melton 33 labourer bn Scarb.
Eliza 34 bn Everley? ??

It's Everley, Hackness, nr Scarborough.

Hi! I'm looking for a family called Ward, possibly in Kiltimagh area.
I have a Margaret Ward, born in Mayo c. 1831.
Her father's name was Francis Ward, labourer.

By 1851, Margaret was living in Ebenezer Street, Leeds, West Yorks. She was a domestic servant. She married William Flinn (b. Kidderminster, Worcs, 1830) on 25 Oct 1852. Their first child was born in Leeds, but then they moved back to his home in Staffordshire, where he worked as a puddler in iron forges. They moved to Wortley, Holbeck, Leeds, c. 1864. William was dead by 1881. Margaret was still living in 1891, and in the census gives her birthplace as "Kiltarmock", which I think is a misspelling of Kiltimagh. The Flinn children were:
Mary Ellen, b. 1853, Hunslet, Leeds
Walter, b.1857 West Bromwich
Margaret, b. 1860 West Bromwich
William b. 1863 West Bromwich
Annie, b. 1865 Leeds
Elizabeth, b. 1868 Leeds

I should be grateful for any information on Wards in Kiltimagh and area, especially if anyone can identify Francis and his wife.