William Harris Devenport

[Siely]

I haven't been able to identify the colliiery where he worked and so cannot check for a mining accident (s)

[CaroleW]

His death cert is unlikely to give you that type of info.  See reply 6 last month which also suggested downloading the death cert.

How do you know it was a mining accident if you don't have his cause of death?

You have not answered the earlier questions re 1871/1881 details

[Siely]

Looking for clues about his working life (only 42 when he died)

[CaroleW]

See reply above.

Re his working life - Look him up on the censuses like we all have to do to get info about our ancestors. 

Where is his "son" Robert in 1871 & 1881?  You have already been told that Robert was iillegitimate so have you considered the possibility he made up a fathers name when he married & that William doesn't actually exist?

You have already said in earlier replies that Roberts m/cert shows father as William DAvenport so why are you researching William HARRIS DEvenport?? 

Roberts children have surname Davenport

[Siely]

For very little effort the poster could have found out that Robert was illegitimate, mother Mary Ann. As for marrying Kate Silvester that takes the biscuit.

SS

I haven't found it "very little effort" ,  I still haven't seen a Mary Ann

[CaroleW]

Suggest you read all the replies in this post again

[Siely]

okay, no problem

[heywood]

Isn't the mother Margaret Davenport?

https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1867/03490/2282712.pdf

This birthdate is the same as the 1939 record for Robert in Birmingham.

I don’t think he has sny connection with Wigan, although he gives various places as his birthplace in the censuses.

[heywood]

Another child, James, born to Margaret ‘Devenport’, Clonlum, Meigh, Armagh
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1870/03327/2219743.pdf

Death of Margaret Devenport - 1883. She may be the Margaret, mother of Robert James
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1883/06356/4823771.pdf