William Taverner-Cambridge

[bbart]

Don't have access to Marriage to see if it is him but he may have married Blanch Stocker 1870

!!!  I was just reading an article about Sarah Taverner, which also included James and Blanch Stocker!

The main article with all the details is too long to transcribe, and is in the Cambridge Independent Press of 25 August 1866 but here is a snip from a different paper.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/cambridge-chronicle-and-university-journ/161708870/

Edit: the full story here:  https://www.newspapers.com/article/cambridge-chronicle-and-university-journ/161708910/
Note Sarah has an alias surname of Faircloth.  She is on the same page as her parents' 1861 census, as a housekeeper living with Henry Faircloth.

[bbart]

Here is another news item on Sarah, which I think leads to the discovery of another brother (of William, son of James Sr.)

https://www.newspapers.com/article/cambridge-chronicle-and-university-journ/161708965/

At first I thought the Mary Ann in question was Mary, wife of James Jr., but it turns out that this Mary Ann was nee Dockrill, and married Thomas Taverner, who did die weeks before, as the newspaper stated.

All these Mary Ann's could explain why James Sr. put Sarah as a Mary Ann on the 1871 census, as Maddys noted earlier.  His wife, a daughter, and so far 2 daughter-in-laws were all Mary Ann's. He was probably at the point of calling any female relative "Mary Ann"!

I haven't found solid proof that Thomas fits in this family (yet!).

[bbart]

The Cambridge Chronicle and Journal of 04 June 1870 has a one line death announcement:

May 29 - at Doric Street, Mary Ann Taverner, aged 38.

[JakeMcGhee]

Thank you to everyone for the help provided, I really appreciate everything that has been contributed at the moment