We are looking for Mary Ann Laycock's father John Laycock, so named on her marriage cert.
In 1881, my direct ancestors Thomas Berry and his wife Mary Ann (nee Laycock) have her sister Hannah Walton with them in Sutton.
I think I can use her to find Mary Ann's father.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...=&pid=23897456
Thomas Berry 61
Mary Ann Berry 60
John Berry 34
Peter Berry 32
William Berry 23
Hannah Walton 64 sister-in-law
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Thomas and Mary Ann died in 1890 and 1887 respectively.
On the 1891, Hannah Walton is on the same end of town, now with the Heaton family as mother-in-law.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...c=&pid=4917500
David Heaton 44
Sarah Heaton 41
Spencer Heaton 13
Mary Heaton 8
Hannah Walton 75 mother-in-law
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I can find the index (but not any image) for the marriage of David Heaton to Sarah Walton (freebmd).
Marriages Mar 1877
Haggas Charles Keighley 9a 280
Heaton David Keighley 9a 280
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Walton Sarah Keighley 9a 280
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WILLIAMS Anne Agnes Keighley 9a 280
Working backwards now, I have Hannah in Sutton as head of household on the 1871.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...=&pid=25506442
Hannah Walton 56
John Walton 24
Sarah Walton 22
Caroline Walton 18
William Walton 16
In 1861 she is in Sutton, head of household, and has John Laycock, widower, as a "boarder".
I wish it said he was her father.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...c=&pid=9851842
Hannah Walton 47
Mary Ann Walton 16
John Walton 14
Sarah Walton 12
Caroline Walton 8
William Walton 6
John Laycock 75
Before that she is with her husband Richard Walton in Sutton on the 1851.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...=&pid=17397132
Richard Walton 48
Hannah Walton 38
Margarett Walton 19
Maria Walton 11
Mary Ann Walton 6
John Walton 4
Sarah Walton 2
And next door is John Laycock, born about 1786.
John Laycock 65
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Sarah Laycock 65
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Thomas Greenwood 29
James Wowell 24
[Wowell is not right, not the same W as elsewhere, so it's ?owell.]
I expect this is the marriage of Richard Walton and Hannah Laycock (freebmd):
Marriages Sep 1842
HIRD Abigail Skipton 23 413
LAYCOCK Hannah Skipton 23 413
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MASOM Elizabeth Skipton 23 413
METCALF Solomon Skipton 23 413
SMITH James Skipton 23 413
TOWNEND John Skipton 23 413
WALKER Grace Skipton 23 413
WALTON Richard Skipton 23 413
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And finally here we have Hannah Laycock still living with her father John Laycock who says he is a publican in 1841:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/...w=John+Laycock
John Laycock 50
Sarah Laycock 50
Hannah Laycock 24
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Martha Laycock 6
James Gill 50
This is Image 4. If you look at the top of the page you will see some Waltons just up the street.
The household is split over 2 pages, so if you go back to Image 3 you find Richard Walton right at the bottom.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/...w=John+Laycock
Richard Walton 35
Elizabeth Walton 12
Margaret Walton 9
Maria Walton 5
So I think I have made my case that this John Laycock is my Mary Ann Laycock's father. Does anyone agree?