I have struggled for many years with this brick wall and hope you can help.
I have John McKenzie/Mackenzie/McKursey b c1819- 1821 born Kendal or Standish in Westmoreland according to the census's and died in North Shields in 1884.
I have him in census's except 1841 - he married Hannah Brown from Berwick on Tweed and they had their first child in Berwick in November 1945. I haven't found a marriage except possibly in Glasgow nor Hannah in 1841 census. Hannah was RC.
1851
https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bi...55&usePUB=true
1861
https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bi...55&usePUB=true
1871
https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bi...55&usePUB=true
1881
https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bi...55&usePUB=true
I haven't found anything for him in Kendal, Standish or Westmoreland.
Now ancestry hints have come up with - Could it be him? or am I clutching at straws?
There is this baptism in Berwick on Tweed around the right date
https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bi...55&usePUB=true
This is a 1841 census
https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bi...55&usePUB=true