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I think you are looking at the correct Flanagan couple. I see only one William/Wm Flannigan/Flanagan family in East Greenwich 1860, 1870 and 1880. They are all the same family despite the variation in ages (all depended on who was giving the info-could have been a neighbor giving his best guess if nobody was home when the census taker arrived)
You say you have a birth record for an Honora born 1852, but that birth year corresponds with the child Henry on the 1860 census. If these people had a thick Irish accent it isn't out of the question that the clerk couldn't quite get the name right. Or maybe the census taker in 1860 misunderstood and wrote Henry in error? Anyway, one of those records could have the wrong name if something was lost in translation.
You already have all the census info, but what jumps out at me is that William Sr is a gardener in 1870 and then again in 1880. By 1880 his son William Jr is already married to "Ellen". That matches info you have on his wife's name. Ellen is listed under her nickname "Nellie" in 1900. This is a common nickname for Ellen. The name Ellen is also very often entered on census records as Helen. Their two oldest children in 1900 match the ones from the 1880 census. They were Ellen/Nellie and William H./Henry W those two census years.
William Sr's daughter Elizabeth is written as Eliza on some census and Lizzie on another, but both of those are very common nicknames for Elizabeth. Her age varies wildly on the census, but I can't tell you how often that happens. She gets younger on every record (must be nice). If she married a younger man she might have fudged her age on purpose.
I did note that William Sr is still alive on the 1900 census and living with his son William Jr. I wonder if there is an obit for William Sr in the local newspaper between 1900-1910. Maybe the town clerk can help you narrow down his death year and you could find an obit (could be priceless in this situation)
Could William Sr have been married more than once? If he married in 1852, but he already had children it's possible maybe the first wife died? I do see a William "Flanegan" in North Kingstown 1850 who is age 27 and born in Ireland. He's boarding and working as a laborer. No children with him, but if his wife died they likely were staying with someone else for a while.
These are just some ideas you might want to follow up on. I've found obits to be very helpful in my research. Oh, When I look at the 1860 census it definitely says Mary "A".
The children Henry and Richard (of William Sr) both disappear after the 1870 census, but I see from the RI cemetery index that they both died before the 1880 census. That is probably why only William Jr and "Lizzie" are living with William Sr in 1880.
by the way, if you have the 1852 marriage of William and Maria, what does it say for parents or other info? Just curious.
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