Birth Registration - HENRY LIONEL DAY

[burnswebber]

My grandfather Henry Lionel Day first marriage 01/02/1901 and  Lionel Henry Day according to his second marriage certificate was 37 on  01/02/1913.  His father was Henry Lionel Day, deceased, and a sawyer on both marriage certificates.  Census return says born Ipswich.  There are a lot of Henry Days on the Ipswich census'.  My grandfather was orphaned aged + - 12.  I would be grateful if anyone could help me to find the right Henry/Lionel and advise me on how to obtain the birth certificate to further my research into my paternal forbears.

[CaroleW]

There is only one entry on freebmd that it possibly could be  March qtr 1877

Henry Lionel Day     Ipswich  4a 713

Certs can be ordered online at www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/

[crisane]

Using the birthdate c1876 +/- 5 years from 2nd marriage cert this census entry  looks good. He is the only one born Ipswich in that time period.
1881 RG11/1871/58/8
Henry Day 28 wood sawyer born Ipswich
Sarah wife 28 Westleton Suffolk
Henry 4 Ipswich
Sarah 2 Ipswich
Mary Ann Bennett Boarder widow 72 Halston

Using the reg info found by CaroleW you can specify the names of the parents if you wish, when ordering the cert..

[crisane]

You have Henry Lionel with his uncle and aunt George and Maria Steggell in 1891?
RG12/1471/10/14 
ancestry has him as Leonel H Day! I have put in a correction.

It looks like his sister Sarah was in the orphanage RG12/1470/118/33

[burnswebber]

Yes this is the information I had found, I had wondered about the Leonel H Day too.  Would you buy the birth certificate on this information? Also how would I find which orphanages were in the Ipswich area? Could it be a poor house do you think?

[Keziah2]

Hi

If the details given by crisane prove to be correct then:

Henry DAY, a Sawyer of Fore Hamlet, Ipswich St Clement, died on 15 Aug 1884 & was buried Ipswich Cemetery 19 Aug 1884 age 32. (Source:  Suffolk Burial Index).  This ties in with his abode on the 1881C - 117 Fore Hamlet, Ipswich St Clement.

Sarah DAY appeared to be alive in 1891 (RG12/1469/21/36
living Willoughby Road Railway Mews Coffee Rooms, St Mary Stoke, Ipswich.  Widow age 39 born Westleton.  Manager of a Refreshment Room.  Living with her are daughters Elizabeth 16 (Assist in Refreshment Room) & Margaret 7 (Scholar) both born Ipswich.

Elizabeth is also on the 1881C age 6 with parents Henry & Sarah, siblings Henry 4 & Sarah 2.

Perhaps Henry was with his grandparents in 1891 because Sarah was busy working.

At a quick glance I couldn't find Sarah in 1901 though so she may have remarried, died, etc?

Marriage:  Henry Day Dec Qtr 1873 Ipswich Ref 4a/1429 & on the same page Sarah Hakon.

1861C Westleton - RG9/1179/57/21:
Sarah HACON age 9.  Parents John HACON 47 & Maria 43

Keziah

[Keziah2]

In 1891 a Sarah Day age 12 was a boarder at the Hope House Orphanage, Foxhall Road, Ipswich St Clement.

K

[burnswebber]

I have Henry marrying 03/02/1901 Elizabeth Ann Hodgson in the Peckham area of London. A witness at their marriage was Daisy Ann KEZIA Marsh. I had never heard of this forename before seeing the certificate. Now a Kezia is offering me information. Wow.

[Suffolk Mawther]

Lovely old name Kezia/h.

I have just missed a talk to the WI on Hope House. 

I am hoping  that another local group will invite the speaker so that I may get to hear all about Hope House in Ipswich.

Pat ...