I have a puzzle from a family I'm looking at and wonder if anyone can shed light on it? It is touched on in another thread
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=881212.0NB Wayland appears transcribed variously as Mayland, Magland, Hayland, Wagland.
Jan 3 1856 - St Pancras. William Robinson Wayland son of Abraham, gentleman, married Charlotte Harriette Croft Ryland daughter of Octavius Ryland, dead (although he wasn't as he had earlier been transported to Australia for life for blackmail). This marriage failed as Charlotte is in later censuses as a widow living in a household in Highbury New Park.
Flora du/da Costa WAYLAND first appears in the records when baptised on 12 Sep 1861 (birth stated as 10 Mar 1860) in St Paul's chapel, Marylebone. William Robinson Wayland (a govt clerk) and Charlotte Harriette Croft Wayland (1831-1883). Abode. 7 Park Place, Clarence Gate, Regent's Park. I couldn't find her in the GRO records.
Flora then appears in 1871 census at a school in Richmond (Apsley House?) as F Wayland scholar (transcribed daughter) age 11 born Jamaica. Head of household was Anne Haywood.
In 1881 she appears at Ismeer, Willesden, as a visitor, 21, born Kingston, Jamaica, in the Machin household. Her name transcribed as Flora de Costa Mayland.
On 19 Oct 1882 she married Harry Machin, age 22, stating father Walter Ransom Wayland, govt official. Harry son of Frederick - both wholesale confectioners. Her abode is Highbury New Park (the home of Charlotte H C Wayland in the Broome household, and where Charlotte died).
A newspaper report states:
Machin-Wayland Oct. 19 at St Mark's, Hamilton Terrace, N.W.,by the Rev. G. Colesworth, M.A., Harry,eldest son of Frederick Machin, Esq., of Ismeer, Willesden to Flora Da Costa, only surviving child of the late Walter Ransom Wayland of Jamaica.
Meanwhile Isabella Augusta Joliffe (nee Wayland) was born 15 Jul 1860 (in the 1939 register according to Bethanyyd96 - although I have a sub I couldn't see this dob). Her marriage cert 27 Nov 1880 states her age as 21 and William Robinson Wayland, gentleman, as her father.
If Isabella's and Flora's birth dates are correct, then was Isabella actually the daughter of Ada Matilda WOODS, who William Robinson eventually married in 1878. They had five children - four of these GRO records show Woods as MMN. The first, Ada Rebecca Wayland in 1857 has no MMN given.
In the 1871 census, Isabella and the other children are listed in the same household as William R Wayland and Ada Matilda Wayland. So Isabella probably was Ada's.
What was the Jamaica connection? Ryland or Wayland or both? Was William Robinson Wayland in Jamaica at all, or Charlotte HC Ryland (the one born in 1831) and where does the Du Costa middle name come from for Flora. The name of her mother, father or godparent? Did Walter Ransom Wayland actually exist?
Comberton found a Jamaica connection in a Dec 1883 newspaper report for the Rylands - Charlotte HC Ryland. As Octavius Ryland’s daughter married Wayland in 1856 this reference is presumably to John Croft Ryland’s daughter of the same name born 1820 and I think never married. She's single in the 1911 census.
Hope someone can help unravel this!