Help finding the correct Imms Ancestor

[TiaMaria9]

I am researching the Imms family and am struggling to find the correct line for my great grandfather Edward Edwin Imms b: 1845 d: 1903 (London/Northampton) and in doing so have come up with a marriage certificate which states his father was James Frederick Imms and on the birth certificate, William Imms.  How can I ensure I have the correct information/am following the correct line?

[Gibel]

Did your Edward have a wife and daughter called Julia? Was Edward a currier later leather merchant?

[medpat]

If you have the birth cert. you know the mother's maiden name - the parents wedding should give you the father's name.

[mckha489]

Do you mean you have bought this birth certificate

IMMS, EDWARD       HARDEN 
GRO Reference: 1845  M Quarter in ST. MARY NEWINGTON  Volume 04  Page 359

And it has father as William while the marriage of Edward has father as a James Frederick - which I can see it does,  As does the late baptism.

Where are they in 1851?
Added…and what is the occupation of William on the birth certificate, and where were they living?

[jim1]

I'm not seeing him prior to 1881 & there doesn't appear to
be any other children with mmn Harden.

[mckha489]

IMMS, JAMES       HARDING 
GRO Reference: 1841  M Quarter in LAMBETH  Volume 04  Page 311

IMMS, CHARLOTTE       HARDING 
GRO Reference: 1839  M Quarter in ST. GILES IN THE FIELDS & ST. GEORGE BLOOMSBURY  Volume 01  Page 73

[jim1]

Just been looking at this family.
in 1841 there is:
William Imms 25
Caroline Imms 20
+ the 2 children above except the daughter is called Eliza.
Can't see them in 1851 but in in 61/71 she's a widow with
daughter Mary Ann Imms b. 1853 Newington which is why I
was looking at them.

[Dundee]

Edward had a brother who called himself James Frederick, married Emma BELLAMY in 1862.  He named his father as William IMMS, a cloth japanner.  I think that Edward either didn't know his father very well/couldn't remember his name, although I suspect that William wasn't his real father.

Did William and Caroline marry?  It looks as though he married as a batchelor in 1845 to Ann ZINCRAFT, around the same time that Edward was born.

Debra 

[jim1]

In 1841 William was a japanner.
It may be William & Caroline never married.