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Thank you Janet for your interest. It has been a while since I first posted this topic. Since then my friend has been able to find out about what happened to his (now deceased) mother after he was adopted. The clincher came with the help of a paid researcher local to Wimborne who found his mother and her new husband in the 1956 and 1958 electoral roll living at the address known to him. That gave her new married name which then allowed him to trace his half brothers. Happy to say that after writing to them they are now "united" after all these years. He still has to find the address "Fernleigh" in that area so I will pass on to him your ideas.
Thanks again, Dave.

Thanks for that info.
This is what I have gleaned, is it correct ?
James Summers died 20th October 1922, at 50 Smeaton Road, Blyth
His death was registered Tynemouth by E. Summers, his widow.
Her address is 10 Hamilton Street, Blyth
His age is 58 years and he lived at Bowes Street, Blyth UD
He was a Merchant Seaman and died of Pulmonory Tuberculosis
Death was registered 23rd October 1922
Information taken from birth certificate copyright General Register Office.

Good to hear you have his death certificate. If you could post your transcription that would be interesting and may give more clues to his birth and help find him in the missing census.

Ive sent for a death certificate for William james summers,to make sure its him.

Did you get a death certificate? A transcription would be interesting and might have a clue to finding his birth.

Hello All

I'm still looking for Henry.  Any ideas?  Is there anything else to try?

jbj63

I have been following this post with interest and would like to offer a suggestion.
The findings so far by the Roots Chat Members have been impressive and have
helped to narrow down the birth of your Henry Simmons. Unfortunately he is hiding
somewhere in the records and is proving difficult to locate. It is possible his birth
was registered but not as Henry. Often a child was registered without a first name
and entered into the registers with the first name as either Male or Female.

Henry's date of birth is stated as 16th June 1889. So if his birth was registered
correctly it would have been in the June or September quarters 1889.

There are :
about 160 entries for Male (all surnames) registered London, June September Q 1889 and
about 160 entries for Male (all surnames) registered Middlesex, June September Q 1889
I didn't count them exactly because they are in a list so it is my best estimate.

As you are not 100% sure of his surname it might be worth looking at the entries to see if
anything stand out and looks promising with your knowledge of the family.

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I also noticed an entry that might be of interest.

Births Sep 1889
SIMMONS,  Jenny
St. Geo. East (Registration District)
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I have looked at the image of the General Register Office (GRO) index and it is Jenny.
If the handwriting of the GRO certificate was very bad is it possible that Henry has been
mis-transcribed as Jenny. The H for a J and the r for an n.
J e n n y
H e n r y
Is it possible that the writing in the quarterly entry from the registrar submitted to the GRO
was so bad that it was entered into the indexes incorrectly?

I have tried to disprove this by looking at census entries but have not been able to do so.
Maybe someone else can disprove this?

If this is to be proved/disproved a certificate from the Local Register Office would be preferable.

Sorry not to have anything definate but maybe food for thought.

Regards, Dave.