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Hello! Having spent a long time in the cosy familiarity of civil registration, I've now hit the parish registers and met a brick wall almost immediately. I was wondering if anyone here might be able to help?

My problem is that my ancestor George Sharp appears in the 1841 census for Thomas Street, Mile End (with wife Mary and son James), but he shows as not being born in Middlesex. I can't find him in the 1851 census, so I have no indication as to where he was born or moved to Mile End from. A search at FamilySearch.org throws up many George Sharps but I don't really know how to tell which ones are likely to be my ancestor.

I've tried searching for baptisms of his other (earlier) children and then looking for them in the 1851 census in the hope that one of them might have been born elsewhere, but to no avail.

Is there really no way over a brick wall like this? Having traced this family back to 1841 and then to discover that this was the generation that 'breaks the family out ' of London and probably shows where that line of Sharps originally came from, only to then be unable to locate where that might be, is unimaginably frustrating! Can anyone help, please?

Thank you so much in advance.

About when was the son James and other children born.

Hello!
James was born in 1816, and the other children (from memory) between 1802-1810.
Thank you!

I don't know the London area is this possible,
JAMES SHARP.
Birth, 21 MAR 1816.
Christening, 25 AUG 1816. Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London.
Parents:
GEORGE SHARP.
MARY.

Thanks, Jimmy, but it's not James I'm looking for. I found his details and yes - they do match the ones you've just sent me, so thank you. It's actually George and Mary I'm now looking for. They're there in the 1841 census, which shows that they weren't born in Middlesex, but that census doesn't say where someone was born, and that's what I'm desperately hoping to work out. I just can't see a way of doing so.

EB post what census you have, have you a wedding cert for george and mary ? have you a birth cert for james

I think this may be them?
1841 Census
Thomas Street, Mile End Ild Town Upper
George Sharp, 65, Labourer, Not born in County
Mary, 55, Not born inn County
James, 22, Labourer, born in County

Is this still a Brickwall, or have you solved it?

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