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Quote from: thearobin on Sunday 20 June 21 09:57 BST (UK)

I can't find any children to Bridget and Thomas Mannion

Slight possibility?
MANNING, PATRICK       
Mother's Maiden Surname: LAFFEY 
GRO Reference: 1856  M Quarter in SHREWSBURY  Volume 06A  Page 627

Excellent find - I've just spent quite a bit of time looking at him and searching for his parents on the 1861 and can't, nor does Gro show any more children that I could find either!  So I can't yet discount them...

As John was older, I wonder if he was previously married and that is she we can’t spot a marriage for them.

Eeek!  I'm not sure how I'd ever work that one out, but it's certainly a theory.  I did find a marriage to a John Cavanaugh and a Jane McEnrue/McEnrough and I've sent off for the marriage cert to rule it out but it's in 1856, Bilston and I figured that perhaps John and Bridget were never married, married other people and occasionally got back together to have children... it's one of many theories obviously!

I did wonder if the 1835 Bridget married in 1858 Aughagower, Tuam, Mayo, Ireland 

Is that the one to John Staunton?

thanks both - I had Betsey and John and then there was a Mary Ann in the USA who named her parents as Richard Aylward and Mary Gorman and I started late yesterday to look at them but then found the wife was from Newfoundland so assume I probably tangled two families and needed to look properly.  Once i had Mary's MN I assumed they were work colleagues (Richard and Thomas) rather than related.

I can't find Luke Comer the other witness but I did find that a Bridget Comer married a William Cavanagh and had a child Cecily who died aged 1 in Bilston, Staffs

I'm not discounting the Mannions yet as I can't find them anywhere after the marriage in 1855 and because their address is Oxford Street in Bilston and my Bridget Laffy and John Cavanagh are also in the same road in later censuses I want to make sure she didn't marry someone else briefly.. although I must admit I'm starting to think such proof doesn't exist and I may as well accept it was a different Bridget!

Quote from: bbart on Sunday 20 June 21 09:28 BST (UK)

Patrick's surname is written as Laffey.  On looking for a Bridget Laffey there is this:

Name:    LAFFEY, BRIDGET   
Age at death (in years): 25
GRO Reference: 1857  D Quarter in DUDLEY  Volume 06C  Page 84

Might not be any of the Bridget's you are looking for, but with all the various spellings you are faced with, it's something to keep on the back burner!  The age does match the Temple St. Bridget though.

This Bridget's burial says she was the wife of Andrew Laffey.

Excellent spot as per usual