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Title: Albert STOKES - Birth Certificate
Post by: auntie mandy on Monday 20 July 09 08:54 BST (UK)

Hi everyone,

I cannot find the birth certificate for my Great Grandfather Albert Stokes.

I have found a baptism entry for him :
Baptised   : 10 Jan 1864 in St. Decumans, Williton.
Baptism, Page 13 entry 99, Albert, son of William and Arabella Stokes, Watchet, Labourer

Any help or advice would be very gratfully received.

Mandy

Title: Re: Albert STOKES - Birth Certificate
Post by: lizdb on Monday 20 July 09 11:46 BST (UK)

Have you found the family on any census?

He might not have been a baby at baptism.

Title: Re: Albert STOKES - Birth Certificate
Post by: lizdb on Monday 20 July 09 11:51 BST (UK)

But no, 1871 indicates a birth around that time:

1871
RG10 2355 45 12
Old Cottage Bicknoller
William G 43 Cutler and grinder bn Nottingham
Arabella 32 bn Watchet
Mary 15 bn Watchet
William Beauford 10 bn W
Arthur 9 bn W
Albert 7 bn W
Francis E 5 bn W
Henry G 3 bn W
Gowen 5mths bn Bicknoller

Title: Re: Albert STOKES - Birth Certificate
Post by: auntie mandy on Monday 20 July 09 12:02 BST (UK)

Hi Liz

That's them - from the this information and the baptism it makes me think he was bron in the latter part of 1863.

I have the birth certificates for all of his siblings, but I just can't find him (the one I really want!).

regards

Mandy

Title: Re: Albert STOKES - Birth Certificate
Post by: tannie anna on Tuesday 09 March 10 02:05 GMT (UK)

Goodday Aunt Mandy
I have a marriage certificate of Arthur Albert Stokes born in 1864 to Daisy Edith Mary Rolls born in 1878 and his death certificate 1949. He was my great grand father. He come from England to South Africa to come and install the first street lamps in Johannesburg.