Can anyone help

[JacobusV]

Hi Neale1961

I'll have a go at my lunch break. My Great Grandfather Eli was born I beleive in Alderney, Channel islands, would his details potentially be there also or do the Channel Islands have a different set up?

J

[Neale1961]

Yes. Different for the Channel Islands - not so straightforward. As it is your direct ancestor, worth pursuing.
Details posted in my reply #14 on this thread.

[JacobusV]

With my Great Grandfather born in the Channel Islands and his brother born in Dover, his Mother living in Calton, East end of Glasgow etc, it definitely seems to sound like the life of a military family, moving from a to b due to perhaps their father's deployment. I'm just spit balling to be fair. I'll have a look into it in more detail at my lunch break.

J

[Neale1961]

…. it definitely seems to sound like the life of a military family, moving from a to b due to perhaps their father's deployment.

Yes, I agree. However, most military men moved quite a lot between various regiments, so I am hoping the boy’s birth certificates might be helpful and reference the regiment.
As there don’t appear to have been any other children (at least I haven’t found any, at a time when Ellen would have been in her prime child-bearing years), one wonders if William died relatively young.

[KGarrad]

See the GenUki page for Alderney. https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/CHI/ALD
Note that Alderney is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey and so much of the Guernsey page is relevant.

Church records
The Church of St Anne (Anglican): Baptisms 1662-1902 with annotations copied from an earlier (missing) book commenced in 1628. 1902 to present day in Church only. Deaths from drowning and Burials 1652 to 1863. Succeeding Registers lost during the Occupation.

Catholic Church of St Anne & St Mary Magdalene: Baptisms March 1849-Oct 1952. Deaths January 1859 to April 1940 and two entries in 1946. Marriages from February 1852 to July 1924.

The Priaulx Library, in Guernsey, have photocopies of Baptisms 1822-1832, Private Baptisms 1819-1821. Burials 1809-1812, 1853-59. Marriages 1841-1886 .

Civil Registration
Births, Deaths from 1850, Marriages from 1886

Try Alderney Court Office
https://courtofalderney.gg/article/159869/Searching-the-Registers

Contact details for all enquiries:
Postal Address: Court Office, Queen Elizabeth II Street, Alderney GY9 3TB
Email Address: Court@Alderney.gov.gg
Telephone number: +44 (0)1481 820050

[Neale1961]

The 1877 birth of son George, is the last we know of William Webb, so that is why it is important to look at it, to see if there is information to guide further research.

It is available for instant download for only £3.


WEBB, GEORGE  HENRY                  Mother - MCWHINNEY
GRO Reference: 1877  M Quarter in DOVER  Volume 02A  Page 951

[JacobusV]

Hi Neale1961

Please see below, birth certificate for my Great Grand Uncle George Henry Webb. I'm not much clearer, it seems they were living in Dover, seems likley that his father was the same man who deserted in Dover?

[JacobusV]

As you mentioned Neale1961, It was a William Webb, 6th of foot who deserted in Dover and it would seem my Great Great Grandfather was a William George Webb, 6th of foot who was living in Dover in 1877. It seems very likely they are one and the same man? Which would mean that the William Webb, born in Holcolme in Somerset would be our guy?

J

[Neale1961]

I'm not much clearer, it seems they were living in Dover, seems likley that his father was the same man who deserted in Dover?

Welcome back JacobusV !  I thought you might have deserted. 

That birth cert. is an important primary source document. The information on it came directly from William Webb, the father.
It confirms his name as “William George Webb”.
It confirms he was with the 6th foot regiment.
It places William George Webb with that regiment in 1877 in Dover. (There has been a military garrison in Dover for many hundreds of years.)

Yes, it does seem quite probable now that the man who deserted from there in 1877 was your “man”.
We can now move forward - really exciting!