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Hi Casalguidi,
You are an absolute star! Thank you so much for coming up with such a lot of information.
I shall have to put you on my payroll!

  Lynda

Hi Casalguidi,
I was just about to contact you again as I re-read your previous posting. I realised after I sent my last message that
you were actually saying that the Malta connection was doubtful. Indeed, my Malta contact actually told me that she thought William Henry's father was William Henry but discounted this when she found the records on familysearch.org which specifically gave the full names of both parents as Henry Lampard and Sarah Rogers. She just assumed that William Henry senior was known as Henry. There are two separate records for William Henry Lampard (junior) on family search.org the first one shows his date of birth and his parents' names and then there is another record which actually shows William Henry(junior) together with 2 of his siblings and all three are shown as children of
Henry Lampard and Sarah Rogers.
As I mentioned before, the entries for these particular individuals are not supported by microfilm so there is no way of checking which ones are right.  If I discount William Henry, do I discount the other 2 siblings?
I am in a quandary now. I don't want to go further back and
compound any errors I've already made.

Lynda

Hi bearkat,
I think I'm going to look at the findmypast site next. Thank you so much for all your help today.
If I find anything out I will let you know.

Lynda

Hi bearkat,
Thanks for the info.
So, if I can't apply for a birth certificate is a personal visit to Rainham the only option?
Also I noticed on familysearch.org that they have given a name and address for the submitter of Henry's Ancestral file. Do you know whether submitters are just transcribers or are they people who are
researching their own family tree? If the latter, I could write to this person to see where they got
information from.
Incidentally, both the 1851 census and the familysearch record show place of birth as Rainham
Lynda

Hi, I am new to this message board so please bear with me if I have "posted" in the wrong place or have not given sufficient information.
I am trying to trace parents of Henry Lampard born in Rainham Kent. I found an Individual Record on familysearch.org which gives details of an Ancestral file. (No microfilm details supplied). This states that Henry was born in 1823, father Henry Lampard (no mother's name given) and married to Caroline Barnaby 10 Aug 1844 Strood Kent.
I can also find Henry on 1851 census, married to Caroline. HO107/1609,Folio 495, page 17, On the census his date of birth is again shown as around 1823.
I cannot find any other definite matches to Henry either before his marriage to Caroline or after 1851.
There is a possible match for Henry in 1841 census where head of household is the mother, Sarah.
HO107, piece 491,book 10, 8A Folio 11 Page 17 Line 16
I had previously linked Henry to parents Henry Lampard married to Sarah Rogers and if this is correct it is possible that his father had died by the time of the 1841 census and Sarah was a widow.
However, I have now been contacted by another family researcher which shows that another of Henry and Sarah's children was born in Malta in 1823 so either my dates of birth are wrong or my
parents are wrong in this case.
I have been told that familysearch records cannot be relied upon if they don't specify microfilm numbers. I have looked on Cityark and cannot find a birth record for Henry in either 1823 or 1826
so I don't really know how to establish what to do next. 
Can anyone offer any advice?