Dear Darryl, I guess I am not able to help you further. I understood that births, marriages and deaths registration began in Ontario in 1869, not the 1880's. In the first few years, the indexes on microfilm lump circa 1869 to 1874 all together as not all citizens complied initially. One other thought of what I have found occasionally. Sometimes a child in the family (eg perhaps Christina McDonald aged 6 in the 1841 census) has a different surname than the family. And sometimes this is because a teenage daughter of the family had a child out of wedlock, the child bears the father's surname, but the mother's family is raising it. I have found this two or three times. Happy New Year. All the best. Elizabeth.