Help Please

[tiggi]

I was going to add that John Darks senior on 1871 Census
on A........... is trancribed wrong, he is actually 84 and says unemployed labour... bed ridden

John Darks junior is his grandson aged 45
so in 1871 census you have grandfather & grandson
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There is another family above them on Census record :
Darks - Edwin is a boatman :
Edwin 41 Sarah 40 fredrick 17 alfred14 Albert 8

I then went back to 1851 Census
 John Darks 67 Sarah(wife) 84 John 26 grandson

but this was interesting :
next to them is a family of Smith
John Smith 45 Mary 45   -  John Carter 4 ( grandson)

I went back and checked 1871 and the Smith family are there on page before Darks !! & were in same place in 1861
I could not find Darks in 1861 ......... but no mention of John Carter

[Lauz]

Thank you eveyone my family is confusing. think i'm going to have to have a long think on this one!

[dcarter1976]

Hi Lauz,

I too am a Carter and have just started a family tree on ancestry.co.uk. I too have reached the John William Carter brick wall. I have ordered his birth certificate to clear up the issue of his parentage, but I wondered if you managed to clear this matter up yourself. If so, did you manage to trace the Carters even further back? My Dad (Victor Carter)'s cousin (not sure of her name) said there were a few children born out of wedlock. Scandalous. Those Carters!

Dean