I have a line back to Robert BOYES, bapt. 31 March 1827 at Gainsborough, son of John and Jane BOYES of Morton, father a sailor. John and Jane had 6 children bapt. at Gainsborough up to 1833. I cannot find any birth or bapt. of this John BOYES. When Robert BOYES, b. 1827, married Jane HIRD 27 Nov. 1848 at Hull his father is John BOYES, deceased mariner. Jane HIRD’s father is also ‘deceased mariner’. So there may have been some confusion here? In the 1851 Census of Hull/Sculcoates John’s son William, b. 1831 at Gainsborough, is living with Sarah Ann BOYES, b. 1833 at Gainsborough, daughter of Robert BOYES, b. 1794 at Gainsborough Workhouse. This infers that John BOYES the Gainsborough mariner is brother to this Robert BOYES, b. 1794, bapt. 1797 age 2 ½ at Gainsborough Workhouse. 1850 marr. of William BOYES, b. 1831(brother of Robert BOYES b. 1827) father is John BOYES, mariner [not shown as deceased]. 1851 second marr. of Robert BOYES, b. 1827, father John BOYES, mariner [not shown as deceased]. 1864 marr. of John BOYES, b. 1833, father late John BOYES, mariner. John BOYES and his wife Jane appear to have avoided the Census of 1841 and 1851. The Death Cert. of John BOYES of 1855, age 63 a journeyman cooper, was, from 1851 Census, born at Walkington, East Yorks., a cooper and sloopman. Bob Jennings