Can anyone please help with this birthplace?

[Harrisons]

Just incase it helps, there is a Christening record for a Joseph Brown born woolstanton staffs 19/5/1809,  same year as listed on census.  Is this him?

This would be a more definate birthplace?

Nik

[Harrisons]

sorry parents are listed as: Thomas and Anne?

[posteria]

Hello

Thank you all again for your further input. The 1871 word certainly is a puzzle.

I have been looking on a gazetteer and just below Congreve there is a place called Kinvaston.

I wonder if that is what Joseph possibly said in 1871 but the enumerator heard it slightly differently or wrote it down badly and then somehow ended up with the version that appears on the census document.

posteria

[AMBLY]

Hi posteria

Funny you shoudl mention that    I was just having a read of this...interesting on it's own
http://www.roman-britain.org/chase/places/congreve.htm

And Kinvaston did catch my eye, being a K word ending in 'ton' !!! 
I couldn't make up my mind  ............But what you say could very well be right, it makes sense and we've seen some very badly mangled place names before this!

Cheers
AMBLY

[robbo43]

Congreve was a very small hamlet of half a dozen houses and still isn't that much larger.  Kinvaston was, and is, even smaller.  Kinvaston was a detached part of the parish of St Peters, Wolverhampton, although now in Penkridge so you may need to check records for both as baptism/marriage/burial could have happened at either church.

Robert