Hi
Hoping someone can help with our family's brickwall that has been confusing the family's of in both England and the U.S.A. The brickwall concerns the birth registration of my Great Grandfather's brother. HENRY ( HARRY ) WENTZELL b 1854 ?. We have him on the census's of 1861, 1871, 1881. He then left his family in ENGLAND, ( Newington, Walworth, Southwark area ) and started a new family in America. Both he and my Great Grandfather, ALFRED WENTZELL b 1856 were born in the Wirral and Liverpool area's. Their Mother spent / lived her life otherwise always in the Walworth, Southwark area of London....... I / We have found birth certificate for ALFRED, but not HENRY ( HARRY ).
1854 & 1856, their birth years being in between the 1851 / 1861 Census's,.....records wise,..... seems to be the only time their Mother was ever away from the Walworth area.
The birth certificate of ALFRED, and also word of mouth passed down, shows name of father of ALFRED as a JAMES WENTZELL. We have two JAMES WENTZELL,s in the family one born 1816, the other born 1839, father & son.
We have also never found a marriage certificate for a JAMES WENTZELL & their Mother CHARLOTTE SADLER b 1836.
1861 census has only Mother & 2 boys
1871 census has Mother/2 boys & a ALBERT WENTZELL b1841 Head of Household.
ALBERT WENTZELL is JAMES WENTZELL b 1839 Brother
ALBERT WENTZELL (Stepfather/Stepbrother to the boys

?) Marries CHARLOTTE Sept Qtr 1871.
CHARLOTTE dies Sept Qtr 1882.
Our own sumise is the the marriage was a marriage of convenience for the WENTZELL name only.
ALBERT WENTZELL is a PAUPER on 1891,1901, and 1911 Census's and dies a PAUPER in 1916.
JAMES WENTZELL b 1816 dies Croydon, 1863
JAMES WENTZELL b 1841 has approx. 20 year army career beginning November 1857 ( INDIA )
Any help / info greatly appreciated, Best Regards J