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Doris is his wife.
By “no idea who she is” I meant which birth is hers, and who her family is.
I don’t think anyone has yet explicitly warned you.
Do not assume the trees on Ancestry are correct. ALWAYS check each step.
Some steps can only be confirmed by buying certificates.
Do check the galleries on other trees, sometimes you strike it lucky and find they have posted the relevant documents (sometimes the document proves the tree owner has it wrong but haven’t noticed!j.
Eg. I have no idea who Doris M Hughes is. Even though we know her actual birth date from the 1939 register. There are no Doris M Hughes in the births for that quarter, and no Doris, no M, Hughes in Darlington.
So...you will have to buy her marriage certificate, and hopefully she had a father (ie wasn’t illegitimate) who she named, so then you have a chance of finding her on the 1911 census with parents.
Buffalo Bill visited Manchester in 1903
https://images.manchester.gov.uk/Display.php?irn=4914&QueryPage=%2Findex.php%3Fsession%3Dpass&session=pass&QueryName=BasicQuery&QueryPage=%2Findex.php%3Fsession%3Dpass&Restriction=&StartAt=1&Anywhere=SummaryData%7CAdmWebMetadata&QueryTerms=buffalo+bill&QueryOption=Anywhere
Quote. I have searched Ancestry, but can only find a Mary Wrightson which is showing she had a daughter called Sarah J?
Search using John Marshall WRIGHTSON
I’m desperately trying not to spoil your fun, but if you are looking at trees on ancestry you can see there are two schools of thought for the parents of Mary HEDLEY
However, here is the marriage licence as she was under age, consent is given by her uncle Richard Paverley
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-67L3-M68?i=125&cc=1675690&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQ2CY-TL94
Confirms her parents must have been.
her father Richard, a blacksmith and her mother Sarah nee Paverley who had both died (1845 & 1846 respectively). Notices in newspaper for both those deaths.
Here is France’s birth
WRIGHTSON, FRANCES HEDLEY
GRO Reference: 1859 S Quarter in DARLINGTON UNION Volume 10A Page 12
Yes, that Ambrose/Barker marriage IS theirs, we have confirmed that with the subsequent working.
That question was just us getting going, and it was conceivable that you might have already had that information.
To confirm for sure you would need to buy one of their children’s birth certificates.
Is this their marriage?
Marriages Mar 1942 (>99%)
Ambrose William Barker Darlington 10a 84
Barker Dorothy Ambrose Darlington 10a 84
Either could be a bit out.
They weren’t as fixated on their ages back then. Many people only knew their approximate age. Often in censuses you can see a huge variation in estimated age.
Eg 37 in one , then say 41 in the next. (If only we could age as slowly)
1859 v 1861 is VERY close.
Added, I usually work on the earlier census being more likely to be correct, or closer to the truth anyway. Especially if a lot of children.