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In genealogy, the assumption is that when children, especially under age say 14, are living with adults, those are parents and their children. LIkewise, when a man and woman are living with children, the couple are assumed to be married and assumed to be the parents of those children. We don't tend ...

Hi, Ashdene, I have just reread your question. I noticed when you said John was 59 at death and said that that put his birth in 1811. Bill Harrison had "about 1812." And you gave as your reason for thinking James was the father to be that James had a son born in 1811. Remember that once Jo...

Hi, Ashdene, Good question about John's father. Your John is person #25 in the book by Bill Harrison, Harrisons of Gisburn. The book gives a birth year of about 1812, and that another sibling William is born about two years after John and sister Mary was born four years before John (with space for l...