Help with deciphering Birthplace

[juleznz]

Hi all could anyone plz offer their opinion of the fathers Birthplace

[Rosinish]

Julez,

Do you have any idea of which country please from later census as that may help narrow things?

Annie

[Rosinish]

I may be wrong but it looks like;

---ford
Bedfordshire (which is in England)?

Annie

[Annette7]

I agree it is Bedfordshire - can't work out 1st letter of word above '..adford'.

Annette

[juleznz]

Hi Annie its England Bedfordshire it seems but cant decipher the first place

Julez,

Do you have any idea of which country please from later census as that may help narrow things?

Annie

[Ruskie]

It looks like Wadferd to me.
Watford comes to mind though that isn't in Bedfordshire ...

[Rosinish]

I think it's simply Bedford (Town), Bedfordshire?

Can find nothing else close.

Annie

[Annette7]

Familysearch shows a Joseph Thomas Squire was baptised 14/10/1853 St. Paul, Bedford, Bedfordshire son of Thomas and Ann. 

However, can find no likely marriage between a Thomas and Ann, nor can I find any one them on UK census.   Nor is there a birth entry for a Joseph Thomas Squire in 1853.

All very strange - the only Joseph Thomas birth in 1853 Bedford is a Joseph Thomas Taylor who likewise never seems to be seen again and frustratingly the birth is not coming up on the new GRO index.   There were 2 of this name in the June quarter 1853 but the Bedford one is not coming up.
I was wondering whether Joseph Thomas Taylor was the illegitimate son of an Ann Taylor (by a Thomas Squire?) and that somehow he was baptised as if the parents were married.

This has happened in a family line I worked on years ago - a lady from Essex worked for a man in Cambridgeshire who was the father of her child.   She then had the child baptised in Suffolk (where she resided a very short time) as if born from a lawful union between them when this was not the case. 

Annette

[Rosinish]

I was wondering whether Joseph Thomas Taylor was the illegitimate son of an Ann Taylor (by a Thomas Squire?) and that somehow he was baptised as if the parents were married.

This has happened in a family line I worked on years ago - a lady from Essex worked for a man in Cambridgeshire who was the father of her child.   She then had the child baptised in Suffolk (where she resided a very short time) as if born from a lawful union between them when this was not the case. 

Annette

Good sleuthing Annette!

Very coincidental if not the same person 

Annie