Possible death date for Britta Ann's husband, Mike Flynn

All the facts presented here are true and verifiable. I have strung the facts together to make a theory, but so far I have no primary evidence that definitively proves that the theory is correct.

My theory is that Britta Ann Green McGuire's second husband was John Flynn/Flinn, nicknamed "Mike" for short, and that he died between 1888 and 1900. 

Here's the background:

1. Mike Flynn married Brettie McGuire on December 19, 1868, in Bibb County, AL. Mike Flinn and P(endleton) C. Bean were the bondsmen.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-9819-57555-81?cc=1743384&wc=MMLN-K82:n1172654039

2. Mike was a pudler in the iron mills, as proved by the 1870 US. Census for AL.

http://search.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7163&iid=4257570_00851&fn=Mike&ln=Flynn&st=d&ssrc=&pid=13300726

3. A pudler or puddler is a wrought iron worker.

http://www.birminghamgenealogy.org/research/old_occupations.htm

One of my best and earliest correspondents (JR) said: 

"Mike Flynn would have been about fifty in 1870. He emmigrated from Ireland in 1836 aboard the vessel Harpeth (New York) He lived in Randolph (Bibb County) and worked at the Briarfield Iron works as a "Puddler"I later found him working as a Puddler at the Helena Iron Works in 1880. He had married Brittana Green Mcguire about 1872 and Maggie (Margaret Ann) resulted from the marriage. He was Step_Father to Brittanias other two children Douglas, and Ellen.I know absoultely nothing before or after the dates above. I feel sure thet he would have been married before Brittana." 

4. The family lived in Brierfield P.O., Randolph, Bibb County in 1870 (see above) and in 1880 they lived in Beats 5, 6, & 7, Tylers, Elliotsville, & Helena, in Shelby County. 

http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=6742&path=Alabama.Shelby.Tylers%2c+Helena+And+Elliottsville.124.1&fn=Bellie%20A.&ln=Flyn&st=d&pid=8231847&rc=&zp=75

5. There is no Mike Flynn or variation listed in Alabama in 1860. However, in 1866 there was a Jno Flin listed in Bibb County in the State Census. The male is either 20 - 30 or 30 - 40; Mike would have been about 40. Also in the household was a female 0 - 10 and a female 20 - 30. Obviously a wife and child. 

One page over lives P. Bean. 

http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=1576&iid=31075_174426-00611&fn=Jno&ln=Flin&st=d&ssrc=&pid=706183

6. By the 1900 U.S. Census for AL, Brittana A. Flynn is widowed and living with daughter Ellen N. and William Hill in Precinct 8, District 92, in Jefferson County. So obviously Britta moved to Jefferson County before the Census, and Mike died or disappeared before 1900.

http://search.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7602&iid=004119988_00599&fn=Brittana+A&ln=Flynn&st=d&ssrc=&pid=36669134

7. I JUST found a listing in the 1889 Birmingham City Directory that lists "J. Flynn, (works at) Birmingham Rolling Mills," "Occupation: Puddler." If you study directories, you will learn that the material is collected quite a period, up to a year, before, in order to be listed in the year published. So the material for the 1889 Birmingham Directory would/could have been gathered in 1888. 

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&MS_AdvCB=1&db=1890birmal&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=2&msT=1&gss=angs-d&gsfn_x=1&gsln=fl*nn&gsln_x=1&dbOnly=_F00027C5%7c_F00027C5_x%2c_F000279A%7c_F000279A_x%2c_F00027C9%7c_F00027C9_x%2c_F00027CA%7c_F00027CA_x&uidh=wy5&pcat=37&fh=5&h=17689&recoff=

8. FYI, Simon Eddins is listed in the 1890 Directory in the Avondale area, indicating that his family had moved to Jefferson County, too, around 1889. 

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&MS_AdvCB=1&db=1890birmal&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=2&msT=1&gss=angs-d&gsfn_x=1&gsln=eddins&gsln_x=1&dbOnly=_F00027C5%7c_F00027C5_x%2c_F000279A%7c_F000279A_x%2c_F00027C9%7c_F00027C9_x%2c_F00027CA%7c_F00027CA_x&uidh=wy5&pcat=37&fh=0&h=30743&recoff=

Combining all the material from Items 1 - 7, we come up with a circumstantial case that 

• Mike was actually named John Michael, or Michael John—not surprising, as he came from Catholic Ireland 

• Mike's first wife and child died; or they got a divorce between 1866 and 1868

• Mike and Britta and family moved to Jefferson County so that Mike could work in the Birmingham Rolling Mill

• Mike died or disappeared between 1888 (data gathering for the directory) and 1900 (Britta listed as a widow in the U.S. Census.)

and thus my theory:

My theory is that Britta Ann Green McGuire's second husband was John Flynn/Flinn, nicknamed "Mike" for short, and that he died between 1888 and 1900. 

So, whaddya think????