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Title: Ordered Birth Cert...unearthed more questions than answers! MANNING/STEPHENS
Post by: shauniibd on Tuesday 25 April 23 11:25 BST (UK)

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Title: Re: Ordered Birth Cert...unearthed more questions than answers! MANNING/STEPHENS
Post by: louisa maud on Tuesday 25 April 23 11:41 BST (UK)
How about going forward on the census if you haven't already done so

LM
Title: Re: Ordered Birth Cert...unearthed more questions than answers! MANNING/STEPHENS
Post by: wivenhoe on Tuesday 25 April 23 11:47 BST (UK)

" all of my reseach until now points to her name being Maryann "Mary" "

What is the information that records mother as Maryann/Mary?

When was 1838 birth registered?  Who was the informant? What occupation or father?
Title: Re: Ordered Birth Cert...unearthed more questions than answers! MANNING/STEPHENS
Post by: emeltom on Tuesday 25 April 23 11:51 BST (UK)
Do you have Caroline's marriage certificate - does she give a father's name?

Secondly, are you certain you have the correct birth for Caroline? You seem surprised that the family is in Kent - where were you expecting them to be?
Title: Re: Ordered Birth Cert...unearthed more questions than answers! MANNING/STEPHENS
Post by: Dundee on Tuesday 25 April 23 12:00 BST (UK)
STEVENS, CAROLINE
Mother's maiden surname: MANNING     
GRO Reference: 1838  S Quarter in WESTBURY UPON SEVERN UNION  Volume 11  Page 445

This is more likely her birth.  She says she was born in Gloucestershire.

Debra  :)
Title: Re: Ordered Birth Cert...unearthed more questions than answers! MANNING/STEPHENS
Post by: Dundee on Tuesday 25 April 23 12:36 BST (UK)
Her baptism was 22 July 1838 at Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, daughter of Robert and Mary.  Robert is a collier, abode Harry Hill.  Perhaps this is it, although this says it opened in 1880.

https://www.mindat.org/loc-378093.html

Debra  :)
Title: Re: Ordered Birth Cert...unearthed more questions than answers! MANNING/STEPHENS
Post by: Dundee on Tuesday 25 April 23 13:13 BST (UK)
This is probably her mother's death.

Churchyard of Drybrook Holy Trinity, Forest of Dean
Mary Ann STEVENS
Aged 34
Buried 14 Sep 1842
Abode Harry Hill

STEVENS, MARY  ANN
Aged 34 
GRO Reference: 1842  S Quarter in WESTBURY UNION  Volume 11  Page 345

Debra  :)
Title: Re: Ordered Birth Cert...unearthed more questions than answers! MANNING/STEPHENS
Post by: Annette7 on Tuesday 25 April 23 13:14 BST (UK)
Caroline Stevens bp.22/7/1838 Drybrook, Gloucestershire, dau. of Robert, collier, and Mary.

Robert Stevens married Maryanne Manning 19/11/1832 Abenhall, Gloucestershire, witnesses George Manning and Emma Manning.

Annette
Title: Re: Ordered Birth Cert...unearthed more questions than answers! MANNING/STEPHENS
Post by: Mabel Bagshawe on Tuesday 25 April 23 21:16 BST (UK)
Was she definitely born in England? There's this family in Amesbury (Wilts) in 1841

Robert Stephens             35    R ? ? Drill sergeant b Ireland
Mary Ann Stephens   35   not born in county
Latitia Stephens                8    b Ireland
Eliza Stephens                7      not born in county
Caroline Stephens           4       b Ireland
Charlotte Stephens     3      b Ireland
William Stephens        1      b Wilts
Title: Re: Ordered Birth Cert...unearthed more questions than answers! MANNING/STEPHENS
Post by: CaroleW on Tuesday 25 April 23 22:12 BST (UK)
Re 1841 census in previous reply

Birth reg for son William shows him as William St Ledger Stephens b Dec qtr 1839 Amesbury mmn was Reynolds so different family
Title: Re: Ordered Birth Cert...unearthed more questions than answers! MANNING/STEPHENS
Post by: Mabel Bagshawe on Tuesday 25 April 23 22:15 BST (UK)
But if the Kent birth cert is incorrect, how do we know her mmn is Manning?
Title: Re: Ordered Birth Cert...unearthed more questions than answers! MANNING/STEPHENS
Post by: Dundee on Wednesday 26 April 23 01:59 BST (UK)
I assumed that Caroline's marriage cert named her father as Robert and that led to the census and then to the baptism and marriage of Robert STEVENS and Mary Anne MANNING in 1832.  I can see at least one person with an Ancestry tree who claims to have all certificates but has not uploaded them.

Debra  :)
Title: Re: Ordered Birth Cert...unearthed more questions than answers! MANNING/STEPHENS
Post by: Dundee on Wednesday 26 April 23 02:06 BST (UK)
Robert is a collier, abode Harry Hill.  Perhaps this is it, although this says it opened in 1880.

https://www.mindat.org/loc-378093.html

Debra  :)

Worked this out with the help of Wiki, Harry Hill = Harrow Hill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_Hill,_Gloucestershire

Robert and Mary may have lost a child in 1834 named Maria.  She was buried on 28 Nov aged 10 weeks, abode Harrow Hill.

Debra  :)