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It's hard I know and as we have said Castlebar could mean a who area and I would still wonder re both Mayo - presumably they didn't enter place of birth in any other census.
Funnily enough I live in Oldham with Mayo family too- it was my dad though so later times than censuses.
Sorry to harp on about it but do the witnesses not give clues?

They signed with a X One was Patrick Smith and I can not read the other name, but there is no other details.

I have gone back to the 1841 Census looking up Patrick Costello (or near name) and there are two or three had daughters called Bridget, but not near her DOB. I have done thesame for Bridget, with father Patrick, but no luck.
So if they married ages 21 in Rotherham, why did they not marry in Ireland?, if they lived in England why do not any links come up on the 1861 census, and both fathers were dead by 1871, so I can not trace their family in England in 1871.
So both families could have left Ireland in/after1861, they must have lived in the rotherham area to marry there, and met in the mid 1860s and married in 1868.

The strange thing is, the witnesses did not have their names, so the families may not have come over from Ireland?. As they say "more questions than answers. !!!!

Do you live in Oldham, or Heywood? I worked there in the 60s.

At least you have something - their marriage record. are the witnesses family at all- would they give any more clues? No one called Smith !!

Does it say on the certificate that they are from Castlebar ?  NO


Realistically it is going to be difficult now- Castlebar could mean the town itself or the wider area. I look on Google, and it could be any one from about 60 villages in that area
regards

It does not help that they keep changing the spelling of their name.

We are coming over next summer, and see if we can trace anything before then that could help us.

I have the copy of the Marriage Cert.
Bridget Costella father was called Patrick, so it is not the one I found as that was John.

Martins father was called John Byrne, both were dead in 1848.

I think I am now up a blind alley as I do not know just where they came from except Castlebar, and born about 1848.

Thanks for the help.

Hi thanks for that.
I have sent off for the marriageCert, and it may show me something, as on one of her sons it says from Mayo Ireland for Bridget.

We were told they came over from Ireland and were married in Ireland.

It will show me the fathers names, so i will know if it is the ones I asked about on my first post.

On the English census they changed their surname every time !!!
from Burns, to Byrne, to Bines, and back to Burns.

Thanks for the help, and will report back when I get the Cert which they are posting on 19th Aug.