Hi
I have been trying to trace a Richard Dowd. All I know about Richard is he married in Liverpool on the 20th January 1851, a Mary Mason, stating he was a Mariner and his father was called John, who was a Provision dealer. I cannot find Mary or Richard on the 1851 census(England), I pick Mary up again in 1861, saying she was a widow BUT in the 1871 census she has a 3 year old boy Joseph Thomas Dowd, who appears in the Mormon Family History site, saying he was baptized on 20 Jan 1868, parents Richard and Mary Dowd!(cannot trace Joseph's certificate)
So, Richard is a mystery, Did he come from Ireland?, Did he die? Any help please. I live in hope that my father is really a Dowd and this Mary didn't just cover up Joseph's birth, as Mary married again in 1872 a Nathaniel Morris and Joseph became a Morris, but went back to Dowd for his own marriage.
Thank you atticus
I have also put this on the England General