Hi David

I have the answer to the "Golding" puzzle: George Leng and Margaret Caley named their daughter Elizabeth Gowland Leng because George's parents were Thomas Leng and Elizabeth Gowland. This comes from a Leng tree on Ancestry. I've contacted the tree owner with the new info on GL and MC's 1854 marriage and the tree has been updated.

Finding George, Margaret, Matthew and Sophia in 1851 is probably going to be impossible----I found the following by googling "Manchester 1851 census":

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Manchester's "Unfilmed" 1851 Census
Family historians with ancestors in mid-19th century Manchester face a particular difficulty. Following transfer of the enumeration books to the Home Office in London and analysis of the contents, the area where the books were stored was flooded and the books were badly damaged. Some of the books were in such poor condition that it was not considered worth filming them. Others were filmed but much of the image appears blackened and the writing is not decipherable. Since the original books were considered too fragile to permit public access, the returns relating to over 200,000 people were effectively unavailable.

Recovering the Lost Souls
In 1991 Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society secured the agreement of the (then) Public Record Office to access the damaged returns and transcribe such information as might still be legible. This was the start of a 14 year project which concluded in 2005 with the publication of the final transcripts. Despite the damage, details of some 82% of the 217,717 persons whom the statisticians had counted had been recovered.

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Jean