William Harris Devenport

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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.

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[CaroleW]

Precisely🙄🙄

[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

Is Mary Ann's surname definitely Davenport ?

[mckha489]

Isn't the mother Margaret Davenport?

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

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It’s Robert James Devenport born - 1868 Wigan- no mmm . Baptism image online and appears with mother in 1871 census

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[Siely]

It’s Robert James Devenport born - 1868 Wigan- no mmm . Baptism image online and appears with mother in 1871 census

SS

Thank you.  Perhaps Robert's mother took him to relatives working in Wigan coalfield.

[Siely]

A tree on Family Search (but no sources given) gives Robert's father as William Devenport
Birth: 1838 Dublin, Ireland
Death: 1881Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
(ie he died 10 years before Robert's marriage to Kate Sylvester)

The corresponding GRO death record is
DEVENPORT, WILLIAM  HARRIS     42
GRO Reference: 1881  J Quarter in BIRMINGHAM  Volume 06D  Page 95

Does anybody have his cause of death available ? (he was a miner and was only 42 when he died, possible mining accident that might not be apparent on death cert.)

[CaroleW]

Download a digital image of the death cert for £3 or contact the tree owner to see if they have it. 

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/Login.asp

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Download a digital image of the death cert for £3 or contact the tree owner to see if they have it. 

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/Login.asp

Exactly