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I’m trying to find where my great great grandfather Benjamin Simpson born in England possibly around 1820 and my great great grandmother, Hannah Smith Simpson also born England. They married and had 14 children. First born was Elizabeth Ann born 5/28/1843 then Benjamin John born 10/19/1844 then Emma Francis born 6/15/1846 then William Henry born 12/27/1848. I have the family bible that lists all children with births so trying to find where they came from. Benjamin and Hannah supposedly moved to Ireland at some point. Having difficulty finding Benjamin and Hannah’s birth, maaarrige and death certificates
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This is all I can find at the moment
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2J9Z-JVT GRO search shows age as 0 so infant death
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Births September qtr 1848
SIMPSON Emma Frances Stepney 2 464
But mothers maiden name was Fearne and there is a marriage on freebmd - not Benjamin & Hannah
There is no marriage and no birth registrations matching the children listed in your post. Was Hannah's maiden name Smith or is Smith a second christian name?
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A tree on Ancestry shows Benjamin born 1820 Celbridge, Kildare, Ireland and the children born Northern Ireland
Hannah is Anne on the Irish baptism of son Theophilus Hare Simpson
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Is this a possibility in 1901?
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Kildare/Celbridge/Big_Lane/1436453/
Benjamin died shortly after:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1901/05728/4616568.pdf
The son Louis shown in that census return was born in 1866, the mother recorded as Anne Simpson, formerly Smith:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1866/03529/2299151.pdf
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Maybe the death of Hannah?
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1904/05628/4583382.pdf
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From the Dublin Evening Post of 31 May 1867: MARRIED March 29, at Donnybrook Church, Mr. George Henderson, Thomas-street, Dublin, to Elizabeth Annie, eldest daughter of Mr. Benjamin Simpson, Celbridge, county Kildare
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1867/11497/8226994.pdf
Edited to add: Then George died and Elizabeth remarried in 1870, to Peter Tyrrell: https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1870/11393/8183271.pdf
Then this from the 'Deaths' column in the Dublin Weekly Nation of 13 September 1879: Tyrrell - Sept 7, at 16 Basin-lane, Elizabeth, beloved wife of Peter Tyrrell, and eldest daughter of Benjamin Simpson, Celbridge, county Kildare. R.I.P.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1879/06499/4871094.pdf
A daughter Hannah Tyrrell born in 1874:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1874/03162/2160023.pdf
A son Patrick Ernest Tyrrell born in 1876:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1876/03070/2125414.pdf
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From the Dublin Evening Post of 31 May 1867: MARRIED March 29, at Donnybrook Church, Mr. George Henderson, Thomas-street, Dublin, to Elizabeth Annie, eldest daughter of Mr. Benjamin Simpson, Celbridge, county Kildare
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1867/11497/8226994.pdf
George Henderson's full address in the 1867 marriage registration was no. 72 Thomas Street Dublin, this is the same address recorded in the following 1869 civil registration for John Simpson marrying Adelaide Norman, John's father recorded as Benjamin Simpson:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1869/11410/8190413.pdf
The couple went on to have several children, John died in 1889 and by 1892/3, Adelaide was placing notices in newspapers to say that she was leaving the country and therefore selling her farm at Clonshanbo, in the event, an online family tree indicates that she ended up in New Jersey USA.
An Emma Simpson (father Benjamin) married a Peter Connor of Clonshanbo in 1870 ...
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1870/11402/8186652.pdf
... and went on to have the following family:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Kildare/Balraheen/Clonshambo/1436997/