Hello ! I am new here. Thankyou for reading my post.
Being born and living in Australia, the main thing that stumps me when conducting family research is the listings of current and old districts in census and baptism books.
I am seeking to locate and clarify the birth registration of my Great Grandfather "James Sharp" born January 6 - 1878 or 1879 ?
The 1939 register which I have verified from my Dad is him, states his Date of Birth as January 6 1879.
I have found a Baptism listing which maybe my James Sharp, but Date of Birth is written as January 6 1878, St James, Collyhurst, Manchester, Lancashire. This baptism was not conducted until September 1878.
There is also an 1881 and 1891 census listing of a son James Sharp age 3 and age 13, living at 149 Cheltenham Street, Collyhurst, which was around the corner from the aforementioned St James Church, Collyhurst.
On the General Register Office of births index, there are James Sharp registrations and I'm not sure which one it would be:
1877: Dewsbury, Bradford Yorkshire, Hackney, Manchester, Sturminster, Bradford Yorkshire, West Derby & Toxteth Park
1878: St George in the East, Radford, Holborn, Preston, Whitehaven, Tynemouth, Bradford Yorkshire, Ely, Burton Upon Trent.
1879: Gateshead, Horsham, Barton Upon Irwell, Doncaster in the counties of York and Nottingham, Halifax, Salford, Whitehaven, Keighley, Richmond-Surrey, Newark.
1880: Hartlepool, Tynemouth, St. George in the East, St. George Hanover Square, Hunslet, Aston, Pontefract, Rochdale
Are any of these districts in the vicinity of Collyhurst ?
He, and his father James Sharp (senior) were both police constables, so I would think that he wouldn't get his own year of birth being 1879 wrong on the 1939 register? Or maybe the census officer listed it incorrectly ? Or maybe his birth was never registered ?
I am not sure what to do next and hoping someone can help me. Thankyou.
