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Have done a look up could do with knowing his dob and where he fits in to the tree. here is the look up and info.... m can we find him on census pre marriage in 1854 and his parents etc Hi Whatever your name is His father's name and his and father's occupation would be on his marriage certificate s...

Hi Jay

Is there a query hidden in that or are you just informing?

ron555 wrote:
Incidentally, CHARLES R PHILLIPS & MARY ANN GOODALL, 1871 census, lived in Kings Norton, Worcestershire.

Census coverage of Kings Norton, Birmingham

Hi Alec Sorry, absolutely no excuse for doing that, except perhaps that I have so much stuff that I cannot get myself straight and am making silly mistakes in my haste. Ron We all do it Ron and it does sort out eventually even though it seems like going round in circles I wouldn't be surprised if C...

Hi Ron Understood -I thought you were looking to prove without a basis of either but as I now understand it, you have one proved and are looking to see if the second traces to the same origins. I take it "CHARLES R PHILLIPS 31 ( Not my Grandfather) Longmore Street, Kings Norton in 1871" i...

Hi Ron

You appear to be working from the wrong start point

You should be starting with a 'proved' person -yourself even -and 'prove' back from then.

To start with what you believe/assume/hope and try to come forward to a proven point creates a tangled list of confusion and possibilities!

Hi Ron

Perhaps that was not Alderminster but Aldershot Hampshire wrongly transcribed
-also army & navy families traveled around and children were often born in different areas

Hi Jane was obviously illegitimate and Elizabeth Powell unmarried with a father invented by Jane for her marriage and as there's no evidence of here living with her mother it is doubtful Elizabeth married the father I can't see where you find the link between Thomas and Elizabeth as father and daug...

Hi Jimmy

It was often a hospital or birth bedside christening of a child not expected to live

Hi Could this be mother of Hubert and sister to Emma who adopted? Births Sep 1849 HUMPAGE Harriet Birmingham 16 285 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marriages Jun 1895 Humpage Harriet W. Bromwich 6b1144 Holyhead John Thomas W. Bromwich 6b1144 Malsbury ...

Hi Jimmy

Yes it rather seems as if EMMA was the mother not Harriet Is this the birth certificate you have?

Births Dec 1887

Povey Hubert Birmingham 6d 168
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Something doesn't quite add up 1881 Joseph Humpage 35 Bessie Humpage 35 Emma Humpage 13 Alice Humpage 9 Thos. Humpage 7 Elizth. Humpage 4 Edward Humpage Younger Than 1 year ------------------------------------------------------------------- Births Dec 1887 Povey Hubert Birmingham 6d 168 -----------...

the birth certificate gives his mother as an Harriett Povey from West Bromwich (I have found who I believe to be her) but no father is on the birth certificate so im more inclined to believe he was illegitimate even though on his wedding certificate he gives his fathers name as Arthur Povey It appe...

I understood coroner's reports to be public records -anyway I got mine from the County Council so that would be a good place for you to enquire http://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/home/w ... -index.htm