Cant find registration of birth??

[MaureeninNY]

I was trying to match up any Abraham with likely siblings from FreeBMD and the only one seems to be an Abraham LLOYD. It's too common a surname in that area to be certain,though.

Does anyone see the father John GRICE earlier than 1891?

Maureen

[Woodlock]

Maureen, osprey,

Augusta Bayley was his mothers maiden name,  seems some we're registered but some children weren't.

I think that looking at it more closely Abraham brice is the wrong one.... 

[osprey]

well, at least you're not in need of the cert to find out mother's maiden name. Think you will need John & Augusta's marriage cert to get any further back with John. No obvious entry for him in earlier census years, so his father's name & occupation from the cert should help.

 

[Hackstaple]

Maureen, osprey,

Augusta Bayley was his mothers maiden name,  seems some we're registered but some children weren't.

I think that looking at it more closely Abraham brice is the wrong one.... 

I had not wished to put a damper on the excitement but i discarded the Brice idea within a few minutes of starting to search. Too convenient, too coincidental and not backed by evidence. Grace seemed to me to be a better alternative but I found nothing of value there. Often it is useful to know whether the parents were literate since if not [happened in my family in the early 1800's] the clerk wrote down what he heard. If the parent was an incomer there could be accent problems but we see the Grice name is common in the West Country and even putting the broadest Somerset burr on it you will not get much change from Grice.

So, in these case, one looks at later censuses for clues - looking for the MOTHER and child together [surname might change] or witnesses to marriages or even who reports a death. It is a slow process that comes to many dead ends.