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hah! Janice

You were finding 1891 while I was finding 1901.
(Oops, I see you have 1901 too.)

Yes, I think we've nailed it. ;)

Here's a possibility for John in the 1901:

McCabe, John 23148, Trooper 81st Coy., 21st Bn. I.Y.

http://www.britishmedals.us/
http://www.britishmedals.us/kevin/impyeomanryl.html
http://www.britishmedals.us/kevin/iyhistory.html
http://www.britishmedals.us/files/iym.htm

Missing young men in 1901 often turn up in the Anglo-Boer War. That is from Kevin Asplin's list of men in the Imperial Yeomanry.

The service record would be available at Kew. I can recommend a researcher who did that search for me, if you're interested.

Now, that would have been cutting things very fine for the marriage and birth after that, so it may be unlikely. I'm not seeing him elsewhere either though!

Just to note -- it might well have been when he married that he adopted his father's surname. Having to name a father and all.

Matilda in 1871, for info:


Name: Matilda Mc Cabe
Age: 10
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1861
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Thomas
Mother's Name: Hannah
Where born: Marylebone, Middlesex, England
Civil Parish: St Marylebone

Town: London
County/Island: London
Registration district: Marylebone

Thomas Mc Cabe 43 - born Hampton, paper hanger
Hannah Mc Cabe 40 - born Norwich
Thomas Mc Cabe 8
Matilda Mc Cabe 10
Ellen Mc Cabe 5
Emily Mc Cabe 2


Matches with John having the name Thomas.


Births Dec 1860
McCAB Matilda Marylebone 1a 365