Sue I'm once again impressed at your researching skills; thank you so much for the Quales..
I'm still trying to figure out whose daughter Emily Ceggin (Keggin?) was.. she was 15 in the 1881 census record, living with them as a daughter. I;m sure I located a record of her birth to Mary Jane Shimmin in 1866, but darned if i can find it again, due to file shuffling when changing over to new computer. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it...
Yes John Thomas was 3 months in the 1851, at least that is how I read the original too. L.