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Where do you get his parents names from? Do you have his birth certificate confirming these and his date of birth?

Have you found him on the 1881 census?

The only one I find is:

1881
Wood Row, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex
Emma Day Head Wid 44 Essex Takeley
Charles son Unm 18 Agricultural Labourer Essex Hatfield Broad Oak
David son Unm 17             "                "           "               "
Ellen daur 9 Scholar                                         "              "
RG11; Piece: 1814; Folio: 9; Page: 12
Another family of Days living a couple of doors away

You can find these on www.familysearch.org.  If they aren't your family, perhaps you could give David's details from there and we can check again backwards.

I hope it was a tree stump that you used

 

I'm in total agreement with Emsworthy in that I've shared my tree willingly with people who, after a discussion, it's confirmed that we have a connection.  But as with Gensleuth, somebody who demands access would be refused.

The person who added my unconnected family to her own actually had over 10,000 entries - to my mind a clear case of being a name collector only.

I sympathise, that's as good as mine!  I contacted somebody as she had an exact match on her tree, but after a discussion it transpired that she was only researching this person in an attempt to find somebody else of the same name, so her tree was not linked to mine at all.

Then a real cousin asked me who it was who had MY family listed - there we were, my mother and father, even my own name.  I contacted her again, furious, and gave her two days to remove us from there before I got in touch with GR and really caused a stink.

I did get an apology and she agreed to remove her tree and prune it considerably before it was put back but she wanted to keep my branch, minus my close family, because of all the research she had done on it, as it might just help somebody else.

My response to this was truthful ..... her tree wouldn't help any other researcher since it had a major error in it!!  I think that stumped her.

Do you know what young Henry's profession was later in life?  Is this a possible for him in 1901?

District Army Service Corps Cleaning Area. Aldershot Military in Stanhope and Wellington Lines, Hampshire
Henry Edgar Ducat S 21 Driver A. S Corps Middlesex London
RG13; Piece: 612; Folio: 97; Page: 42

Gladys,

I ordered the Elsdon Heron/ Sarah Costello marriage cert.  I wonder why she is written as Costello if she was an Atkinson at the time?

Janis

Can only assume that there has been an Atkinson/Costello marriage, although she seems quite young to have managed to fit in yet another marriage.  This is why I'm interested in what her father's name was, hopefully to identify her maiden name, then you might have to search for Maiden name - Atkinson marriage, then Atkinson - Costello marriage, whew!!