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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Marriage of Benjamin James Gregory and Emily Townsend 1892
« on: Saturday 13 July 24 10:33 BST (UK)  »
Thank you all for the information. I now think that I have the wrong birth certificate for Emily townsend. All the information I have from her marriage to Benjamin James is correct. I found her in 1911 in the hospital census which led me to find the child that had died. I will have to start again on the Townsend branch of the family. Thank you all once again.
regards Allan

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Family History Beginners Board / Marriage of Benjamin James Gregory and Emily Townsend 1892
« on: Friday 12 July 24 22:13 BST (UK)  »
Grandfathers birth certificate shows his father as Benjamin James Gregory (railway signalman) and his mother as Emily Gregory (formally Townsend). Censuses from 1871 to 1891 show Henry D Townsend having a daughter Emily Townsend (born approx 1870). BMD shows that Benjamin James Gregory born 1870 and married Emily Townsend 1892 (West Bromwich Dec 6b 1235). I have Emily’s birth certificate showing her birth on the 28/10/1869 and father is Henry Daniel Townsend. I sent for that marriage certificate. All of Benjamin James’s details are correct. Emily’s name and age are correct but her father is named as George (a bricklayer). I cannot find any George Townsend living in Warwickshire or Staffordshire but there is a Henry Daniel Townsend. On Ancestry, all the trees have Emily as the daughter of Henry Daniel and Benjamin James as her husband. I must have either the wrong birth certificate for Emily or the name of her father is wrong on the marriage certificate. Can anyone help unravel the mystery?

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Missing child of Benjamin James Gregory and Emily (nee Townsend)
« on: Saturday 22 July 23 17:50 BST (UK)  »
I assumed you meant 'if' and not 'as'. Thank you I think it is more likely than not that Martha is the missing child. I will have to get the birth certificate to confirm. Thank you for your help.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Missing child of Benjamin James Gregory and Emily (nee Townsend)
« on: Saturday 22 July 23 17:26 BST (UK)  »
Why do you think that the birth and death were in the same quarter? We don't know if the child was a boy or girl. Could one possibility be that Emily had a still birth but counted that as have a child that died?

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Missing child of Benjamin James Gregory and Emily (nee Townsend)
« on: Saturday 22 July 23 17:05 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for the web link, very useful. It can't be the other location, too many other children!

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Missing child of Benjamin James Gregory and Emily (nee Townsend)
« on: Saturday 22 July 23 16:50 BST (UK)  »
Using freeREG, the only Martha Gregory baptims that comes up is in Deryshire with the wrong parents.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Missing child of Benjamin James Gregory and Emily (nee Townsend)
« on: Saturday 22 July 23 16:47 BST (UK)  »
Yes I was just about to post that
They married in 1892 (West Bromwich Dec 6b 1235).

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Missing child of Benjamin James Gregory and Emily (nee Townsend)
« on: Saturday 22 July 23 16:36 BST (UK)  »
I have done that using BMD but there so many that it could possibly be.

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Family History Beginners Board / Missing child of Benjamin James Gregory and Emily (nee Townsend)
« on: Saturday 22 July 23 16:24 BST (UK)  »
They married in 1892 and had three children (that I have found).
John Willie  b 2/3/1895  (Dudley Jun 6c 63), Benjamin James jnr.  b 1897 (Dudley Jun 6c 90) who died 3/6/1913 (Wolverhampton Jun 6b 704) and Reginald  b 16/9/1904 (Wolverhampton Dec 6b 646). The 1901 census shows the whole family of five. The 1911 census shows Benjamin James snr. with his three children whilst Emily is on a hospital census where it states she had four children of which one had died. Can anyone please help me find their dead child?

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