The 1862 marriage record says that John was a carter. Maybe this is why he’s hard to find in the 1861 census? He could have been on the road in a different town. If he’d been staying the night in an inn, the innkeeper might have been hazy about John’s age when giving the information to the census enumerator, or they might not even have known his full name.

Heths

Ann Elizabeth Wariner of Cluster (sic) Lane age 5 buried at St Mary Bramall Lane 9.2.1870

Maria Warriner age 7 of Malin Bridge buried 21.3.1876 in 27 Row 3 at Loxley Cong Chapel.
George Warriner age 14 mths of Malin Bridge buried 23.6.1876 in 27 Row 3 at Loxley Cong Chapel.

Dave

Thank you Dave, I have already the burials. It is their baptisms that curiously and frustratingly cannot be traced.