Mary Jane Vickers Gale as Mary J Vickers on 1861 census with her father James Vickers
living 2 Naisby Court Little Bolton
James Vickers Head 42 Bolton twiner & setter
Jane Vickers wife 32 Preston
Jonathan Vickers son 16 Bolton
Mary J Vickers dau 2 Bolton
Piece: 2823 Folio: 73 Page Number: 35
This might be Jane's baptism, assuming that her maiden name was COURT which is so far unproven.
22nd August 1828 St John, Preston
Jane COURT child of John & Margaret
Abode Turkshead Yard; occupation labourer
Her siblings:
Henry 1823; Mary 1825; Ellen 1832. All baptised at St. John's church. Abode for all was Turk's Head Yard or Turk's Head Court. Father's occupation changes; 1823 housekeeper, 1825 coachman, 1832 warehouseman.
1833 burial of Margaret aged 40, abode Turk's Head Yard.
1836 burial St. John, Preston, John Courte age 46
Marriages:
1845 St. John, Preston
Wiliam Crook, abode Bolton
Agnes Court age 27
Bride's father late John Court, warehouseman
1846 St. Mary, Lancaster
Henry Court
Elizabeth Lishman
Groom's father John Court, warehouseman
If this is correct family, Mary and Jane were orphaned as children. They may have moved to Bolton with Agnes when she married.
Btw Turk's Head Yard was already known to me through researching my Preston ancestors. A 3xGGF was lodging in the next yard but one on the night of 1851 census. Both were unsavoury places in more than one sense of the word. The Turk's Head got a few mentions in "Preston Chronicle". There's a website about old Preston pubs.
