Just a thought - have you actually purchased any of the birth certificates to see what date appears there, in order to verify or refute the baptism entries?
I only have the certificate for Henry's birth.
William's DOB - you've given me the date from the parish register. Thankyou
Florence's DOB is still in doubt as her death certificate GRO entry gives her DOB as 26 June 1895 but the 1939 register gives it as 22 June 1895.
Arthur's GRO death entry gives his DOB as 21 Nov 1903 but the 1939 register gives it as 21 Nov 1902. The GRO register for his birth is DEC 1903.
Edward died young and I only discovered he existed yesterday, along with a brother and a sister who also died very young.
What I find really interesting is that my grandfather Henry (who died before I was born) was very anti-Catholicism, apparently describing it as "cruel". It surprised me that he would marry a catholic,
my grandmother Mary Harrington, in a catholic ceremony. Now I know he was actually a catholic himself the marriage makes more sense.
I can't find a baptismal record for John Sutcliffe so don't know if was C of E. I haven't been able to find a catholic baptism for him on Findmypast but his Sutcliffe ancestors were C of E.
I'm now beginning to wonder if Mary Ann Lane was the catholic. She was born in the workhouse in 1871 but there are no existing records at the LMA for the Union Workhouse, St John Horsleydown for the year she was born. She was illegitimate. I've found no sign of her on the 1881 census,
I wonder if my grandfather's opinion is about something that happened to his mother.