Hello there, Valda and Jan!!
sorry I have been unable to reply to these excellent replies before now, but I have been at work. Still, having gotten home and looked at your replies they do help a little for me. I'll try and reply to all your points and questions as they were raised:
1. I do have a copy of the marriage certificate for Albert Ashley HANLON and Sarah Ann Reynolds at the Parish Church of St Augustine, Newcastle upon Tyne, on 4th May 1903. Albert is aged 24, and a photographer. His father is shown as John Ashely HANLON, photographer (deceased). Sarah's father's details do tally with her birth on 20th June 1878 to Thomas Reynolds and Mary Meyrick at Mainstone, Bishop's Castle.
2. Albert's name on the marriage certificate does look as though it is hyphenated, hence the multiple entries in the register showing possible variants.
3. In the 1881 census there are only two Albert Hanlon's. One is born 1860 in Stafford, and is in Hospital there. The other is born 1880 in London, the son of a waiter.
4. In the 1901 census there are two Albert Hanlon's again - the same one in London, aged 20 and a fitter's mate. The other this time is aged 24, born in Kirkdale, Liverpool, and is a "commission agent". He is staying at his father-in-law's house (Mr ASHLEY - most interestingly!!) at Berriew in Montgomeryshire.
5. In BMD's, there is an Albert Warburton Hanlon shown born at West Derby, Liverpool, in Dec quarter of 1880, volume 8b page 401. The only death I can find in this time-frame is Albert Richard Hanlon, aged 48, death registered at Salford, Vol 8d, page 11, March quarter 1907.
6. The births you show for Ethel and Norah at Atcham are indeed my gran and her sister. Those at Forden I have not been able to link back to my gran's father Albert Hanlon.
7. I have a copy of my grandmother's birth certificate which shows her being born 3rd March 1904, workhouse Berrington R.W. Father Albert Hanlon, photographer. Mother Sarah Hanlon, shown resident at workhouse Berrington.
8. Sarah Ann Hanlon later married Pryce Roberts about 1910, and had a daughter Ivy Roberts born about 1912. I haven't succeeded in finding these events yet!
Concerning Sarah, I have not been able to find her on the 1901 census. Sarah has a brother John G Reynolds, who in 1901 was living in Liverpool, having married a girl (Margaret E Daley) in 1890, who was born in Newcastle! I have a pet theory that Sarah may have moved to Liverpool to work, perhaps staying with John and Margaret initially, but perhaps then getting a job in Newcastle through her sister-in-law's family?? Incidentally, both Albert (Ashley) Hanlon and Sarah Ann Reynolds are shown as living at 133 Wingrove Avenue on their marriage certificate.
That's all the information I can offer! I am unable to find Albert Hanlon or his father on any census return, I have tried searching BMD's for births but to no avail either. So this is why I want to find out more about this pair!!
Concerning the Berrington workhouse records, I'm trying to find out if Albert was also resident there, and what dates the family were there between. Also any hint of what happened to Albert Hanlon.
One theory I have is that Albert Hanlon may be the same one as is married to the ASHLEY lass at Berriew in 1901? Did he perhaps desert her and commit bigamy??
Jan, I'd really appreciate it if you can spare time to look at the Berrington workhouse records in Shrewsbury for me. I have been meaning to make a visit myself, I have yet to do so because of poor health recently. But I wasn't sure if the records were held there or not!!
And thank you again Valda for the assistance!
Best Wishes,
Garry Brookes - Preston, Lancashire (UK)