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Assuming that William Chadwick was his step-father:

Marriages Mar 1860 (>99%)
Barker Mary Burnley 8e 315
Chadwick William Burnley 8e 315


William Chadwick
in the 1861 England Census
Name: William Chadwick
Age: 56
Estimated Birth Year: 1805
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Mary Chadwick
Mother's name: Betty Chadwick
Gender: Male
Where born: Cliviger, Lancashire, England
Civil Parish: Cliviger
Ecclesiastical parish: Holme St John
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England
Registration district: Burnley
Sub-registration district: Burnley
ED, institution, or vessel: 54
Neighbors:
Household schedule number: 54
Piece: 3074
Folio: 53
Page Number: 9
Household Members:
Name Age
William Chadwick 56
Mary Chadwick 52 - Extwistle, Lancs
Betty Chadwick 83
Thomas Barker 15 - stepson
Sarah Barker 4 - step-daughter

Banns of Mary's first marriage ?? Though she would only have been approx. 16:

Mary Todd
in the Lancashire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936
Name: Mary Todd
Gender: Female
Event Type: Banns
Event Date: 21 Aug 1825
Parish: Burnley, Lancashire, England
Phillimore Ecclesiastical Parish Map:
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Spouse: Robert Barker
Register Type: Parish Register

Robert Barker, labourer, bachelor, of Worsthorn.
Mary Todd, spinster, of Monk Hall, within Extwistle.

???


Mary Barker
in the 1851 England Census
Name: Mary Barker
Age: 42
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1809
Relation: Servant
Gender: Female
Where born: Briercliffe, Lancashire, England
Civil Parish: Cliviger
Ecclesiastical parish: Holme St John
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England
Registration district: Burnley
Sub-registration district: Burnley
ED, institution, or vessel: 2b
Neighbors:
Household schedule number: 15
Piece: 2251
Folio: 26
Page Number: 4
Household Members:
Name Age
James Walton 59
Mary Barker 42 - married
William Stuttard 23
Henry Grimshaw 42
Susan Hartley 52

BUT -

Frederick William seems to have been illegitimate (assuming this is the right birth):

BARKER, FREDERICK WILLIAM - (no mms)
GRO Reference: 1843 D Quarter in THE BURNLEY UNION Volume 21 Page 198

So how does that fit with Mary being married?
Maybe Robert wasn't his father - or had already died - and Mary considered herself single, while still using the Barker name ??


And if that's the right Mary in 1851 above, where's FW ?

Aha! So Mary was already "with" William Chadwick, although living-in as a servant at a different address:

William Barker
in the 1851 England Census
Name: William Barker
Age: 8
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843
Relation: Grandson
Father's name: William Chadwick
Gender: Male
Where born: Worsthorne, Lancashire, England
Civil Parish: Cliviger
Ecclesiastical parish: Holme St John
County/Island: Lancashire
Registration district: Burnley
Sub-registration district: Burnley
ED, institution, or vessel: 2b
Neighbors:
Household schedule number: 40
Piece: 2251
Folio: 29
Page Number: 11
Household Members:
Name Age
Elizabeth Chadwick 74
William Chadwick 46
Henry Barker 4
William Barker 8