Yes I have a copy of the actual marriage records and since have been sent e-mail a census return for 1861 listing Mary and John with Malachy and Bridget along with 2 children John born 1855 and Margaret born 1859 who do not appear with this family in 1862 in Illinois USA. They appear in 1861 with the family. Apparently when I did some searches on the internet on Google and Ancestry.com I have come up with the fact that a John Hyland born about 1854-55 married a Julia Charlotte Brown Kensington Chelsea Middlesex and a Margaret born 1859 married either a Joseph MILTON or James Mayler. I have yet to find or obtain copies of each of these records. Johns' parents were Thomas and Catherine Hyland when he married my Mary or Mary Ann Dwyer in Stepney Middlesex England. SO if I can prove by the marriages for John and Margaret I can place them as children of my ancestors. I have been working on this family for about 20 years give or take. I am going to need to find the marriage record for Malachy and Bridget to see if indeed he is or was the brother of my John and the Uncle of John son of John and Mary or Mary Ann.

> Yes I have a copy of the actual marriage records and since have been > sent e-mail a census return for 1861 listing Mary and John with Malachy > and Bridget along with 2 children John > born 1855 and Margaret born 1859 But this is not what appears in the census entry, which has John and Mary and the two children and his unmarried sister, Bridget. Where did Malachi spring from? If he later married Miss bridget Hyland, then was his name actually Malachi something else? EVE Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society