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Thank you so much, I will work through them.
The photo on ancestry is mine which I shared, the only picture I have of Adam and Maria together.
As for Eliza I have also found her listed as niece but Adam might have been a bad lad with one of his sisters-in-law I'm still trying to solve that one!!
Very grateful to you for the help
Kathryn

Thank you for the information. I did take everyone's advice and buy the book and what a book!!
I still haven't found anything on John William Thornton's (granddad) role in the war. My Aunt keeps saying he enlisted and was injured in the stomach but I haven't found any military records for him at all. He was born 1899 and at the time of WW1 lived at the same 26, Annfield Plain address. I am surprised they don't seem to have joined the same unit.
Again any detectives out there who can help I'd be very grateful.
Regards,
K

Hi,
I still wouldn't consider it very safe. I am working at St James's and there was someone assaulted in the cemetery a couple of months ago in broad daylight.
I wouldn't recommend going without a male friend or 2 and don't take a bag or anything obvious that people might want to steal.
I make it sound awful don't I. I promise not all of Leeds is like that!!! The cemetery is a favourite haunt for people with substance abuse issues though.
Kate.

Hi Polly,
Thank you again, that's fantastic progress. I really am grateful for all your help.
Best regards,
Kate.

Hi Wendy,
I have dug out the Francis Robert Kane and Elizabeth Revington marriage cert and it makes things more confusing!
On the cert it lists fathers as Francis kane a cashier, deceased and George Revington a Tailor now deceased. Francis Robert is described as a mariner aged 27 which would make his birth year 1863 not 1858. They married at St Michael's catholic church. Elizabeth's address is given as 5 Dee Street West Derby and Francis as 14 Farm or Fann Street, West Derby.
Grandma's birth cert gives Elizabeth as Kane nee Rivington of West Derby and the place of birth as the workhouse, Walton. Francis is desribed as mariner, merchant services.
I found a birth record for a Francis Robert Kane in 1858 which I sent for and just got, his parents were Francis Kane a cooper and journeyman and Mary Ann Kane nee Burlinson. The address given looks like 16, Back Rathbone Street, Liverpool.
I also found out from someone on GenesReunited that Francis Kane and Mary Ann Burlinson married 13th March 1848 at St Michael's both of full age and Francis described as a warehouseman. His father was daniel Kane a soldier and Mary Ann's father was Robert Burlinson a victualler.
I wonder if this is the right Francis Robert Kane or if I need to look for someone born closer to 1863 which would cut the age difference down between him and Elizabeth who was listed as 22 years in 1890 when they married.
Confused of Yorkshire!!!!