Looking for birth confirmation for Tom Kennedy

[heywood]

There is another family at that 1921 address - maybe that is why he is a ‘Boarder’ and not necessarily ‘something going on’.
Do you have the birth certificate of the son born in 1921 to compare addresses?

[davidkennedy]

The witnesses were Gertrude Daisy Waters - my grandmothers sister - and her husband John. The marriage took place in the registry office so no joy there I'm afraid. My grandmother, Dorothy May Lewis had 3 sisters. Violet married and moved to Coulsdon and her great grand-daughter is also researching the family tree but has likewise come up against the same barrier.

[davidkennedy]

Although, I've also discovered that he left Ireland when he was 14. It's unlikely that he has a great deal of cash to finance his departure and I know also that he was in the army at the time of the Boer war so it seems likely to me that he lied about his age and joined up to get out of Ireland as 1897 was another bad year for the west of Ireland and he (apparently) left sometime the following year.