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What age was he on the 1861 census.  He might have been baptised as a child with other siblings.
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He was listed as 50 on the 1861 census which would match with the baptism record I have. It is interesting on the burial records it says ‘abt 1806’ for the birth date rather than having an exact date same as the death date ‘about 1870’.

I cannot find my Great x 3 Grandfather George Girdlestone in the Civil Registration Death Index.. he died in North Walsham (Erpingham district) in October 1870. I have found his burial records and I wanted to find his death certificate after finding two news stories on the British Newspaper Archive which reported a George Girdlestone dying in the same year and place as my Great x 3 Grandfather as a result of a tragic accident being buried by a large quantity of gravel which had been undermined too far. I am assuming this is him but just wanted the certificate for confirmation. I have searched with different spellings, searched with just the surname/first name and cannot find anything. In over 20 years of family tree research, I have never come across a relation I couldn’t find in that index (if I knew when they had died that is). Can it be possible he isn’t in it?.

Many thanks!

Angela

  I'm easily confused, Angela...this could be a bit of a rabbithole ( Can't choose an emoji as they all look the same with Xmas caps)
   Your query states "My Great x 5 Grandfather was born in c1746 " but also that you're looking down the wrong branch for your Wm./ as you had the parents "completely wrong". So, to confirm... it is the parents you're not sure of... ?
   What did you discover that proved William’s parents, brothers and sisters "completely" wrong?

Thanks ever so much for all your help, I read a copy of Robert Baker Girdlestones published genealogical notes and when I found William Girdlestone my 5 x grandfather (who I believed to be my relation) on a family tree diagram included in the notes, his wife's name did not match my great x5 grandmother’s name. I looked at my tree and I had him married to my relation and the lady on the family tree diagram but the marriages and children crossed over so it cannot possibly be right. My Great x 4 Grandfather also called William did not descend from Williams wife as mentioned on the diagram.Many people have the exact same mistake on their tree on Ancestry and have one William Girdlestone married to two women and having children with both at the same time. so I am trying to discover who my William’s parents actually were as they are not Zurishaddai and Sarah. I have my William’s children listed as Sophia, Mary, William, George, Harriet and Elizabeth. I actually found an old post on another family history site with someone else with the exact same issue whose post might explain it better than I can… it is so hard to put into words 🤯

https://www.british-genealogy.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-75440.html?s=ffd9fbf0a2a8a01bebb168998b3698d9

Brilliant! Thanks for that. i did see the photo of the cemetery sign but I didn’t look at it close enough.

Thanks again!

Angela

Thanks ever so much for that! Certainly looks like him 😀👍🏻