G2G: I need some help tracing the parents and earlier family of Mary (or Mary Ann) Hurley from Leeds, Yorkshire, England.

Question

I need some help tracing the parents and earlier family of Mary (or Mary Ann) Hurley. The name is sometimes spelled Early. I know she had a younger sister called Bridget. Her father is given as Thomas on her marriage certificate. As far as I know her family were originally from Ireland and moved to Leeds, Yorkshire, England, circa 1840.

Answer 1

I found a census from 1861 in Leeds.  Father, Thomas, was a hawker.  Sister, Bridget, was a cloth sorter.  She worked in a factory.

I added the record in the research notes on her profile for you to look at.

Comments

Thank you very much for your reply. I had seen this census record on Ancestry but there is another record in 1861 for Thomas ?Harley living in Brussels St. with his wife Bridget and daughter Mary. I just don't know which, if either, is the correct record. On Ancestry I have indicated that the family living on Marsh Lane is more likely to be mine, especially as that Mary had a sister Bridget, but I can't be sure. Do you think I could do the same on Wikitree? I have plenty of records from the times of Mary's and Bridget's marriages but would ideally like to trace their family back to Ireland.