Perhaps I am a tad old fashioned when it comes to fh researchings, but I do tend to go for the BDM certificates where I think I will find information provided first hand by the person I am concentrating on. Yes, I do have dc info, but usually I aim for marriage, or birth certs of the children, especially as so many of my ancestors were NSW settlers, in early colonial penal times.
So, NSW BDMs will give you the details about not just the child whose birth is being registered, but also information about that child’s parents, and quite often Dad was the one registering the births. So if you were to obtain the birth registration for the youngest child, you would get details for the older siblings, and their parents.
The details about the parents includes : where born (often the County, not just the overseas country), the then ages of each, the occupation of the Dad, and the date and place of their marriage, and the then address and relationship of the informant to the baby being registered. Fingers crossed that this information will allow you to determine if your chap was born in Lancashire or in Yorkshire.
He was born apparently in either Yorks or Lanc around 1853 and came to Australia in the late 1880s. He married Alice Maud MERRY in Qld in 1884. They had children in Enfield NSW, Silverton NSW, Summer Hill NSW, at the last, Valerie Gladys STANSFIELD, in Moruya in 1894. He died in Moruya the same year, aged 41. .....
His NSW BDM dc is ref #8632
Valerie bc is ref # 21866
Perhaps his wife's extended family were in the area?
Cheers, JM
