Thanks Ray for the date. It was from a piece of paper saved from a fire, there are burn marks all over it & a nice big ashy smudge at the end of that date. The fire i believe was out at st breward.
I think my grandad mostly wants to just know more information about the people, where they are buried, what they did etc.
I do have a possible mystery though. Searching ancestry I've found a Thomas gill as a possible parent instead of one of the William/William John's.
After my morning coffee I'm off to my parents where the big paper is & going through & checking against any birth certificate I can find as the rest of the family is correct, dates included!, which is what has me confused.