What was the name of his father on his marriage certificate and the baptismal record you found?
Here is the marriage to Emily Timson
Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
19th February 1881 at St Bartholomew, Salford.
John Carroll, 32 years, a Private in 8th Regt. Bachelor of Salford Barracks. Father Bernard Carroll deceased a Sergeant in 25 th Regiment
Emily Elizabeth Timson, 21yrs Housekeeper Spinster, 12 Irwell View Father James Timson, deceased a Painter.
Witnesses Henry Saunders and Agnes Carroll.
The 1895 marriage to Annie Murphy shows his father as John Carroll deceased, labourer
