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Wow!, Thanks for all that effort on my behalf! Much appreciated. Let's see if I can give a bit more information to go on:
Joseph Markland had a son Henry Markland.
I have Henry's marriage certificate: Married to Mary Elizabeth Collinson on 25th October 1873 in Saint George's Church in the Parish of Chorley. His father Joseph is shown as an Engineer. Henry was twenty at the time so Jospeh was married before 1853. And we know his name was Joseph MARKLAND. Now a complicated bit. A probable surname miss-spelling in the records:
When looking for Henry Markland's birth certificate I found no Henry Markland born around 1853 in Chorley. However, there was a Henry Markley born on 25th April 1853 in Chorley. That Henry's father was a Joseph Markley: I suspect that Joseph Markley and Joseph Markland are the same person. There are dozens of Marklands listed in the Vital records for Chorley in the 1800's, however, there are only two Markley's recorded. One is Joseph Markley and the other is his son Henry Markley. The birthdate of 25 April 1853 for Henry Markley corresponds to the birthdate of Henry Markland calculated from later certficates in my posession. Joseph Markley's occupation is given as Engineer on Henry Markley's birth certificate, and later certificates tell us that Joseph Markland was also an Engineer. Though I have no evidence, I feel that joseph Markley and Henry Markley are none other than Joseph Markland and Henry Markland. That Henry's birth certificate gives the mother as Jane Robinson.
In summary: His name may be Joseph Markland or Joseph Markley. He married Jane Robinson. He was an engineer in Chorley in 1853.
The only Jane Robinson marriage I can find that is close is to a Joseph Martland, but, as noted by a researcher here, the names of the children do not match so possibly not our Joseph.
Thanks for all your efforts.
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