X00188 Solved! Part 3

For the next step, I first looked at the burial record for Mary Slater to see if there was any connection there. I first found the burial record:

Mary Slater died in 1903 at an age of 63. She was married to a George Slater and was living in a workhouse at the time of her death. That would suggest a birth year of about 1840. She could have been Henry Rothwell's daughter, Mary who was born about 1836, but not exactly, so I did some further investigation.

First thing that I found was her death certificate:

Unfortunately, the death certificate doesn't give much in the way of information that I didn't already have. It confirms that her husband's name was George and she died at age 63 in a workhouse. Additional information found was that she died of senile decay and that husband was deceased and was a cotton weaver. No maiden name however, or any definite proof to link her to Henry Rothwell. So, the next step was to find a marriage record between George Slater and Mary. I managed to find this one:

The marriage is between a George Slater and a Mary Rothwell on 13 December 1854. Her father is listed as Henry Rothwell, a carter, which is a good sign. Her age is give as 19, which would coincide with a birth year of about 1835, which also fits. One of the witnesses was James H.R. Rothwell, which also fits. So, the marriage record definitely fits with it being Mary Rothwell, daughter of Henry Rothwell.

Next step - to investigate the record for Martha Bass.