Baptism/Birth of Ernest Joseph SULLIVAN in BROCKFORD

[Bradwell77]

Realise this string is many years old, but perhaps it has been resolved.

Very interested in Ernest Joseph SULLIVAN as he is ancestor to a friend whose tree I prepared some years ago. Unable to trace his origins.

I have copy of the birth cert for Joseph Ernest SALNAVE, Hartsmere Reg Dist. - Mendlesham. Born 28 July 1872 in Brockingford cum Wetheringsett. No father. Mother Kate SALNAVE formerly COLLINS (?). Informant on 28 Aug 1872 mother Kate SALNAVE of Brockingford cum Wetheringsett.

All very intriguing. Is this Ernest Joseph SULLIVAN who appears to be first be recorded on the 1901 census in Bury St Edmunds (RG13/1754 p101) lodging with Isaac Gold and future wife Edith Tiplady who family originates from Durham? Has anyone got a copy of their marriage cert - bet it does not have a father’s name. Eventually he settled in Sunbury on Thames where he died in 1954.

The Salnave surname is a mystery. Only link I could find is reference to the Haitian revolutionary general Sylvain Salnave - extremely unlikely.
 - and French Revolutionary War POWs housed in Suffolk. I like the Sullivan-Irish connection better, especially with the railway connection.

Any progress, anyone?

And where was Ernest Joseph censuses 1881-91?