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That looks very good to me thanks. None of my subsequent census records that I have for him suggest that he was born in Brighton - I will see if I can track him down in 1841 using Sussex as the research area
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Having received some extremely valuable help from this site before I thought I'd try again on a different topic namely my great great grandfather Edward Baker. He was born c1833 in Southwark, Surrey according to census returns of 1861, 1881 and 1891 where he is variously described as a shoemaker and a fish curer  and married in 1855,  the marriage certificate shows his Father as being of the same name (Edward Baker)

Ideally I would like to trace Edward Baker c1833 in either 1841 or 1851 ie prior to his marriage, as this may show him living with his parents. I have had no success in trying to trace him during those years. There is an Edward Baker that I have been able to locate on the 1841 and 1851 census living in the Southwark area with a father of the same name but it gives his birth year as 1839 which would make him only 16 when he married in 1855. The marriage certificate gives his age as "full" and also gives an address of 4 William Street, I'm not sure what "full" means, 21?

Does anyone have any thoughts on this as to where or how I might track down further information regarding his earlier years?  Would appreciate any help.


     

It looks like accessing the 1911 census could be an expensive business. I had rather naively assumed that it would be possible to access it via Ancestry, of which I am a subscriber, since they already have all the others from 1841.       

The birth certificate for Emily Winch born 1861 arrived on Saturday it gives the mothers maiden name as Meacham. I have searched bmd for a marriage between an Emily Meacham and an Edward Winch with no success.

Emily Meacham is easily traceable on the 1841 and 1851 census living in Beccles in Suffolk. How do I establish for certain however that the Emily Meacham shown on the 1841 and 1851 census living with her parents Sophia and Charles is the same person that had a daughter christened Emily Winch with Edward Winch and the same Emily shown in the 1871 census shown as Emily Bradford and living with James Bradford?

I did some further research on this and have found a possible marriage on freebmd between James Bradford and an Emily Sparrow in 1871 in Epsom. I was hopeful of this in that if you look at the census return for Edward Winch in 1841 admittedly when he was only 4, the Winch family were living with the Sparrow family. I am sending for the marriage certificate.

It's difficult to tell at the moment if I am making any progress at all. You have helped me a lot thus far and any further thoughts or comments would be gratefully received.
Mark