Hello Everyone!!
Thank you Pampoen!! ,for advising Raymond to make posts re James Edward Ryan xx
Hello Raymond!!
Apologies re my delay in replying to you. My PC has been in repair and I have just collected it.
Re James Edward Ryan b 1862 without the Edward as a middle name. I have an image of his birth certificate & also his marriage certificate to Mary Rose Knieser in 1897

I am willing to share them with you.
May I ask which child of their children is her grandparent please ?
James Edward Ryan is my Grt Grand Uncle & his younger brother Joseph Edward Ryan b 1867 is/was my MATERNAL Grt Grandfather.
They were born both in the same town in Seacombe Wallasey aka Poulton cum Seacombe UK & they both added the name " Edward " as a middle name but I dont know why ?
I have no photos of my Ryan family at all. Not even my maternal Grandmother May Agnes Hannah nee Ryan as she passed away 10 days after my Mum was born in June 1921.
Re James Edward Ryan also had a called son James Henry Ryan who to came to UK & married my paternal Great Aunt Laura Kate Cooper but later separated or divorced, but that's another story.
I have no photos of J H Ryan either grr but I know he returned to SA as a joiner with his son Rex Harry Ryan. They lived according to records near James Edward Ryan.
I am hoping too that maybe your wife my newly inherited cousin, would have a photo to share of any Ryan please?
If its any help too I also have done my DNA with Ancestry and have the kit number.
I noticed you mentioned that he was may have been administrator for a Lord Townsend ??
There were a few of them but may I ask which one just for curiosity.
Hope to hear from you both soon and so sorry for the tardiness.
Maureen