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Good morning. I am looking to find a birth record of a child born to Susannah Cooper sometime late in 1807 or in early 1808 in or around Shoreditch. So far I am drawing a blank. Poor union record states that she was a pregnant single woman at the time.

I am trying to track down records for a Harry Bedford born in Celbridge in 1882. I believe that he was my Grandmother's biological father. She was born in 1921 to Katherine Emily Bayliss (Transcription mistakenly says Kathleen) in Heywood Lancashire and she was given away as a child to be raised by a nice family, but was never formally adopted. No father named on the birth certificate. My main problem is either placing Harry in the North West of England or Katherine in Ireland. I can't even find an obvious death record for him either. I thought that the 1921 census might help me but can't see anything obvious?

Thank you.

Good morning. By way of trying to overcome my brick wall, I was considering buying the book Pre-1841 censuses and population listings in the British Isles.

I was wondering if anyone owned this book and if so, does it contain many London records? I am still searching for the records of two brick wall ancestors and wondered if this has helped anyone successfully?

Thanks!
 

Hi again, apologies to anyone who spotted my thread yesterday relating to this man.

Eliphalet Hill, who was baptised in 1805 was my 4 x G.Grandfather and father to my 3 X G.Grandmother Ann Hill, who was born in 1829 and later married Henry Weaver in 1859.

I was just wondering if anyone had come across this name Eliphalet in the UK, or elsewhere before?

It certainly wasn't common in London, or the wider UK at the time.

With the help of this site, I think I have found an accurate birth record for Eliphalet to John & Susannah in 1805 and he is on the 1841 census with Ann in Flower & Dean Street, Whitechapel.

I have done a bit of a search on the name and it appears that there are a few Eliphalet Hill's in Connecticut, USA from 1600's onwards, all the way to mid 1700's. Furthermore, it looks as if the Hill's branched out from Exeter in Devon to Connecticut at some point.

Do we think that this name is unusual enough to suggest a potential link? Possibly an impossible question to answer. Just throwing it out there for now

I am looking for some more information on a Mary Steed Weaver. She married a Stephen Blyther in Rochester, Kent in 1801 and had a sister called Margaret who died in 1835. I am connected through DNA to 4 of her descendants and as I have had no real luck overcoming my Weaver brick wall I thought that she was worth looking in to in the absence of any other leads. I can't locate any birth record but someone else may have more luck?