Hi Kazwald,
Further to my previous post, I have now found that my g-grandfather, William Henry Marshall b. 1857, was the son of Mary Marshall b. 1835; he was born at Barnsley Workhouse, and Mary never named the father in the birth cert. Mary was the daughter of Thomas Marshall, b. about 1808 and Sarah Smith. If you go to the Barnsley list, you will see the whole story there. Mary was working as a servant in the house of Joseph and Elizabeth McLintock in 1851; Elizabeth died in 1852 and as I have not been able to find a death in Barnsley for Joseph, I am assuming he was still alive in 1856/57 and that Mary was still working for him then. I have been in touch with a McLintock descendant (as you will see) and we are trying to work out if there is a connection.
Send me an invite and I will let you have a descendency chart for our Marshalls - there must be a connection somewhere!
Cheers,
Tisy