Skating ever farther out onto the thin ice:
Birth?
There is a possible birth/baptism but I myself can't see what Ancestry is seeing on that image and I don't know how I would ever prove that this is him.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...=&pid=10916886
Name Birth Date Event Date Event Type Father's Name Mother's Name
John Laycock 12 Nov 1786 17 Jan 1787 Baptism Laycock Hannah Laycock
Moreover, when I click over to the second page I see another entry listed under February (I'm assuming 1787):
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/...w=John+Laycock
John son of John Bottomley Laycock & his wife Susan
daughter of Nathan Bailey
born 19 Jan 1787, bap 14 Feb 1787
(Ancestry has mistranscribed this as John Bottomley with father John Bottomley and mother Susan Bottomley. I put in a correction.)
There is also
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...=&pid=10916849
John son of Joseph Bailey Laycock & his wife Mary
daughter of James Moor[???]
born 23 Oct 1786, bap 29 Nov 1786
And possibly
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...&rhSource=8767
08 Aug 1784 John Son of Benjamin Laycock of Glusburn Weaver and Eleanor his Wife 18 Jul 1784
(Glusburn, Sutton and Crosshills form one community.)
Death?
He is with Hannah in April 1861, but no longer with her and probably gone in 1871. So from freebmd:
Deaths Jun 1861
Laycock John Keighley 9a 144
Deaths Sep 1862
Laycock John William Edward Keighley 9a 100
Deaths Sep 1866
Laycock John 77 Keighley 9a 117
Deaths Dec 1866
Laycock John 37 Keighley 9a 123
Deaths Jun 1868
LAYCOCK John 82 Keighley 9a 139
Deaths Jun 1870
Laycock John 19 Keighley 9a 131
Of these, the only one I can tell would be the right age is June qtr 1868, age 82.
I can't tell about the June 1861. The census was in April, so it's possible.
I think I can rule out the fellow with the multiple middle names.