Thanks, Roy, it was from the birth certificate of Jane Emily that I got via the CheshireBMD site that I could trace her mother's maiden name of Curphey.

In 1845 they were certainly living in Austin Street, Birkenhead.

Jane Emily's Dad was definitely of Manx birth and I am thinking her Mum must have been, too. Unless I come up with a birthdate for her Mum I can't get anything more than her marriage lines, which is all I have at the moment.

Is there an online copy of the 1851 census?

Pam