Jane Stanistreet is the sister of my 4 x great-grandmother (Maria Stanistreet, 1798-1849 - matrilineal ancestor of the two ladies in my userpic, in fact).
In 1841, Jane was living with her parents on Devon Street, Liverpool (Thomas Stanistreet, 1758-?, Jane née Redfern, 1761-1842).
In 1842, aged about 36, Jane married William Carter. He was a coachman, of Dingle Head, Toxteth Park, son of William Carter, a shoemaker.
But that's all I know. I've tried various gyrations in searching the 1851 census, and although some Jane Carters turn up, they don't seem to be the right ones. I've tried going backwards to see if I can find William Carter on the 1841 census, and it's possible he's the 35 (ish) year old male servant of Margaret Foster on Park Road in Toxteth Park (not born in Lancashire). I'm assuming a coachman might count as a "male servant" on the 1841 census?
I found a William and Jane Carter on the 1851 census, but they had a 13 year old son, so I don't think that was them (unlikely to be William's son from a previous marriage as he was apparently a bachelor on his marriage - could be wrong, of course!). There's several baptisms of children of William and Jane Carter in Wavertree Holy Trinity, but I tracked them down on the census and the mum is too young to be my Jane (and other trees suggest her maiden name was Parker anyway). So that's two William & Jane Carters out of the picture.
Of course, both of mine might have died by 1851....
Part of my interest is that Maria is my dad's matrilineal ancestor, so she had the mtDNA haplogroup J1c1c. It would mean Jane did too, and I'm curious as to whether there's any matrilineal descendants from Jane. Of course, I'd also just like to know so I can fill a hole in my family tree!
Their brother, Thomas Christian Stanistreet, had lots of children, and seems to have produced lots of descendants.
