X00391 John Taylor born 1852 after 1871

John Taylor is the second son, and fifth child of John Taylor and Jane Whittle. He was born 14 December 1852. Aside from his birth and baptism records, I have also found him in the 1861 and 1871 censuses.

Both of his parents died in early 1861 and so at the time of the 1861 census, he was living with his grandparents, John and Ellen Whittle. At the time of the 1871 census he is living with his brother and sister-in-law, James Taylor and Alice Ann Rothwell. His profession in the 1871 census is listed as a cotton spinner.

But after the 1871 census, it gets a little difficult to find him due to his very common name. In the 1861 and 1871 censuses he was living with other family members so it is easy to positively identify him, but in the censuses beyond I haven't been able to link him to any other family member.

Ancestry hints suggest a marriage between him and a Martha Ann Bulcock, so I decided to have look into that. I did manage to find the marriage record:

Most of the other ancestry hints are based on this marriage record being the correct one.

The name and age in the marriage record match with this John Taylor. The profession is a cotton porter, loom weaver, which is different than being a cotton spinner, but he could have changed profession. The address doesn't create any links to anything that I can tell. The father's name of John Taylor matches, but the profession does not match any previous profession for John Taylor

Given that John's father died when he was about eight, there is the possibility that he wasn't aware of what his profession actually was and gave the wrong information. But there's not enough definite information to conclude that this marriage record is the right one.