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Thanks Tuppie -- I guess Ill have to buy the cert. but at least I now know the place and his spouse.
Rick

Thank you Carole. I hadnt quite thought of it that way. Now-- how would I go about finding a baptism for him??  It would seem Ringstead is the likely place -- since Ann (his possible mother) claims birth there too.  Do you know if the Ringstead PRs exist?

Hello,

I am looking for information on the birth and origins of  Robert Sapy DEXTER.
Here is what I know.  From the 26 Mar 1851 St Margaret Kings Lynn marriage register image on FamilySearch, I discovered that he named his father as Thomas SAPY (fisherman). He married Harriet ENEFER daughter of John ENEFER Publican. Where did the DEXTER surname come from then?  I presume this indicates that he was the illegitimate child of a female DEXTER and Thomas SAPY.  Are there other explanations?

I cannot find the newly wedded couple in the 1851 census but can find Robert and Harriet in the 1861, 1871, and 1881 censuses.  In these he uses an age that is consistent with a DOB of 1823.  In two censuses he gives his POB as Ringstead (one time recorded as Rinkstet) and once as Heacham.  I also cannot find him as a SAPY or DEXTER in the 1841 census.

I have checked the Heacham records on FreeREG and can find no Bapt for Robert as a SAPY or DEXTER.

The Ringstead PRs do not seem to have been filmed by the LDS -- or at least they are not among the parish registers currently listed on the FamilySearch site, and they are not yet transcribed on FreeREG.  Do they exist?

Can any of you find him (them) in 1851 and him in 1841 censuses? If the PRs for Ringstead do exist could SKS see if there is a baptism that seems to fit? Are there sources other than baptismal records  that might help me determine why he calls himself a DEXTER?

Thanks for any and all help/advice you can give me.

Rick

Just to add  a few more bits of data to the discussion;

H DEXTER # 78,156 enlisted in the RFC on 01/01/17 -- From a copy of RAF muster roll on Asplin military pages. 

The birth of Marion Nelson S(mith?) DEXTER is indexed on Scotlands People for Leith South, in 1918

Herbert DEXTER lace warehouseman in NTT in 1911, is 35 yo.  Is it likely that he would enlist in the RAF in 1917?  There are two younger Herberts both in LIN in 1911 (Grantham and Louth born 1897 and 1892 respectively) who might be better fits.

Rick