Hi Jennifer and Carole,
I really appreciate both your efforts in finding my Mary Jane. She still seems to be pretty elusive after 1881 don't you think? I might have to dig around a bit more to try and find whether she met someone from Lancs through her father's family up north, although you were unable to find her on the 1891 census as Mary Mellor Carole. By the way, thankyou for pointing me toward the full GRO index - I had no idea it was anything more than what we get from free BMD.
(By the way - if you want a REAL mystery, my cousin and I were both told by different relatives, that Elizabeth Scholefield, nee Smith, was French!!) With a name like Smith??!
Thankyou both once again,
Warm regards,
Pauline in Oz