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According to his census records he was born in Montrose in 1791.
The UK census never gives a date of birth, and 'calculating' a date of birth by subtracting the person's age from the census year gives a wrong answer more often than not.
I assume that he is the one listed as a tailor, aged 50, in the 1841 census in Tiverton. In 1841 adults' ages were supposed to be rounded down to the nearest 5 years, which means that someone listed as 50 in that year could have been any age from 50 to 54, and therefore could have been born as early as June 1786 or as late as June 1791.
In 1851 he was listed as aged 60, which does imply that he was born in 1790 or 1791. In 1861 he is listed as 71, which implies a birth in 1789 or 1790.
He is at least consistent in giving his birthplace, so that seems to be reasonably certain.
Hi, thanks. Yeah, I know it can be quite dodgy. He was indeed the tailor. It does, I've tried looking in other places in Forfarshire but that's been similarly fruitless.
2nd generation - Fawcett, Elsbury, Sanders, Aldridge
3rd - as above, Hutchison, Babb, Enticott, Edwards
4th - as above, Turner, Bater, Marshall, Webb, Chick, Cottey, Tozer, Rowland
5th - as above, Broomfield, Fry, Wood, Clark, Baker, Boyland, Lane, Bryant, Pearce, Carey, Bailey, Freeman, Hill