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Thanks for the answers, much appreciated.

Does anyone know the difference between the two? I was looking at an ancestor's entry in the church records and he was married by license whereas others on the same page were married by banns.

Yes, I see what you are getting at now. My mistake, I'm getting confused between the Andersons. Senior moment.

William Anderson & Jane Hanson 17 Apr 1815 in Bingley, Yorkshire. Interesting, where did you get that from? You'll have to excuse my clodhopping, I'm still working out what is possible in terms of research on the internet after so long away. It was a day in the local archives and microfiches the la...

Now you are saying "George's mother Jane with the Liverpool connection" George of the Faith Anderson clan, not George who married Faith. There's a link to a marriage in Liverpool between Jane Sampson, widow age 21 and William Anderson, mariner in 1800, this would fit in with Faith's mother's age. I...

I was thinking of George's mother Jane with the Liverpool connection although thinking about it it's pretty tenuous.

Indeed. I have Silas's birth certificate, he was in fact born in Blackpool whereas all his siblings were born in Wilsden. Blackpool not being far from Liverpool I'm wondering whether there is some connection with the William Anderson, mariner and Jane Sampson, widower who were married in Liverpool i...

Thanks Mike, each day is a learning day!

Just noticed also that as you say in '51 census they are 34 and 32. In the '61 they are 46 and 44 and in the '71 they are 55 and 53...and yet Silas their son (my GG Grandfather) stays constant with ten year increments.

Excellent work Mike, can't thank you enough. What was throwing me I think is that I have family A in the 1841 census with George as being 20, not 25 so I've been looking for someone born in the late 18 teens. I don't know if it's a print error but if George is 25 in family A then what you have sugge...

Thanks for that David, that certainly sheds more light on the subject. Aren't adopted siblings prevented from marrying though?

Stranger and stranger. I've been pondering this for years, have been through all of the possible permutations and can't work out what their relationship was at all (other than brother and sister) unless by some incredible coincidence they both have mothers and fathers with the same Christian and sur...

No, I have his baptismal records too, his mother and father have the same name as Faith's.

Incest only became illegal in the UK in 1908 upon Googling the subject, so maybe it wasn't common but did happen.

I would have thought it would be illegal but I have two ancestors who were living (unmarried) with siblings at the same address in the 1841 census, George and Faith Anderson, father William Anderson. In 1842 they were married and on the marriage certificate their father(s) have the same name of Will...