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Just adding:  there may also be another earlier baptism,
as it is close to the area & date they were married 
John Fletcher  b. 24 Jan 1823   Chr: 2 Mar 1823
Winwick, Lancashire, Eng U K  Parents Daniel & Martha
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J9JY-75H

Adding: Here's the image...Buried in a mixup of jumbled together dates.
and he is listed as occ: Husbandman...Thus the more rural abode!
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6SGQ-VSC?i=55

  I know this isn't your direct family, but I looked into the 1921 census. The Military papers EileenWilson found say he was in Smoky Falls in 1919 & tried all versions of forename with just surname L* in Nipissing. Makes me wonder if they didn't get out to some of the norther logging camps to enumerate. Saw that his cousin Honore was still a soldier in Simcoe 1921.

  I did find a sister may have had a son's birth (registered) there in 1925
Délia Lacoursière & Ferdinand Charron- son R* Charron b. Dec-28, 1925  Smoky Falls, Ont.
https://www.gazaillegenealogy.org/tree/gazaille/individual/X3169/Romuald-Charron

His sister Blanche Lacourciére married Albert Dubuc , 28 Dec 1920 in Smoky Falls
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:27D2-Q4L

Lots of the family & off-shoots also lived near many of the waterfall towns in Ontario which would have welcomed back the men to employ in logging camps, millls & log driving. While looking for Omer I found this lovely family page, & will share for others searching the surname.
 https://storiesmymothertoldme.weebly.com/photo-gallery.html

Sadly, that night raid had one of the most losses of the war up to then...

Scroll down to just before the image.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ssa/

Didn't find much about the night raid other than targeting resources/rail junction. 
Previous recent bombardments would have put some heavy defences into motion.
Losses are listed in number of "aircraft" only.
https://www.northlincsweb.net/103Sqn/html/magdeburg__21-22nd_january_1944.html

This site still has him as "missing" rather than K.I.A.
https://www.bombercommandmuseumarchives.ca/canadaairwar/canadaairwar1944.pdf

 Adding: The aircraft itself has more information on the sortie than of the men themselves.
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/231277
Approximate map of above locations  http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ss9/

Looking at that entry for the dismissal of Thomas I found a whirly-bird of entries
that somehow fit but they don't? Are there two of each Thos. & James or mixed up entries?

1850 Thomas Earl   30  c.1820 England  Parma Township, Cuyahoga, Ohio
   Household Identifier  1768    House Number 1636  Line  19
    Mary 1820 Eng.     Isabel J Earl  1843 Eng.       Sarah L Earl  1850 Eng.
1860 Tom Earl   c. 1815  England  with James & MaryAnne  in Oxford, Erie, Ohio
   His discharge says he was 35 in 1865 & born Cambridgeshire ( so c.1830)
Next he appears in Oxford, Erie, Ohio in 1866-Oath of Identity
  https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-J382-CQCQ

???Robert Earl 1860 Greenfield Township, Huron, Ohio, United States
   Birth 1830 England, United Kingdom    
???another? James Earl 1860   Ridgefield Township, Huron, Ohio, United States
Birth 1820 England, United Kingdom (Grocer?)   Alice Arnold F    27  b. New York

1870 a Thomas with family  Monroeville, Peru, Huron, Ohio, U.S.
  Oddly it also says New York on results
 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M62P-QK6
 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6GYQ-NYQ
   Thomas Earl c. 1827 England    Jane c. 1826 England
   married before ? as  children are John Young 8   Jane Young 3
    an Elizabeth b. 22 March 1873, parents Thomas Earl & Jane Press
   marries Huron, Ohio, United States
Then, a Marriage of Jane Earl at res. of Mrs. earl June 30 1873 to Mathias Hiers or Hiess
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9396-FNVG-B
However:
1880 census Peru Township, Huron, Ohio, United States
   Jane Young 47  c. 1833  England   Widowed
   Jane Young 13  c.1867  Ohio   Daughter   At School
   Elizabeth Young 8 c.1872  Ohio Daughter attended sch within yr.
    all say Parent's Birthplace England
   https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M89C-YKN

Elizabeth Earl Haas, (wife of Wm)  - death Norwalk, Huron, Ohio
b. 22 March 1873 says mother - Jane Prell or Press/ father Thomas Earl
  John Young Age 10 born Peru / death  Peru, Huron, Ohio  May 9 1872
Then I found - Elizabeth Earl   Birth  22 Mar 1871 Peru, Huron, Ohio, U.S.
?  Father: James Earl ?    Mother: Jane Pierce 
    https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X6JG-MX2

Wonder if this is a bad rewrite of (?James) the father, 3 mo later
but on the same page just above the son???
 Lamier Earl  Age 50 Residence  Peru, Huron, Ohio Married
 Occ Farmer Death 30 Aug 1872  Peru, Huron, Ohio, U.S.
 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99ZR-J98H-6?i=79

adding+++
Just found the marriage of Thomas Earl & Jane Young 1 Feb 1870 Huron, Ohio, U S
 Just as he said on the census

   Hello Erato!  If you read the page,  each entry is a different name...as are the pages before & after with perhaps one or two names repeated only a few times more. Rathbun didn't identify as JP.
   Just read that "The marriage must then be solemnized by a judge, a retired judge or by an ordained person “in good standing with his or her religious denomination…” There are no requirements for an ordained person to register in the County or the State of Illinois in order to marry people, nor does the County or State keep track of officiants’ credentials. "   
   Religious groups may license or ordain people to perform marriages, but the state does "not" require that the officiant be ordained.  Public notaries aren't authorized, though...and this is today.