If the age of 18 years given for Anthony Corvan in the 1841 census was correct,he was about 21 years old when he married in 1844.The age on his marriage certificate was "Full age", which simply means he was over 21.His bride Mary Healy was a 'minor', and ages given on two census returns suggest that she would have been about 18 years old when she married Anthony Corvan.
Mary Torsa Healy was the daughter of London undertaker David Healy and his wife Ellen. Like the parents of Anthony Corvan, they were Irish-born Catholics, and lived in Broad Street, St.Giles, not far from Buckeridge Street where the Corvans lived for more than twenty years.All information on census returns and other sources suggests that Mary Torsa Healy was born in 1826 in London.She had an elder brother James Healy, and an unknown brother who must have died pre-1844 as Mary's father David Healy mentions two Healy granddaughters in his will that do not belong to Mary or James.
The Healy family have been a very difficult one to trace, particularly because of the common surname.I can not locate the maiden name of Ellen Healy, nor the names of any other children apart from James and Mary.I only know that she was born in ireland in c. 1782, and my last sighting of her was in the 1851 census when she was living with her daughter Mary Corvan.
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