Any help much appreciated in unravelling the birth and early years of Albert and the birth of Kate.
On 11th Nov 1918 at Ebenezer Chapel, Lyndhurst the Rev T Webb Scammell married Albert Hnry Bird (aged 37) and Caroline Kate Peckham (aged 38). Albert was a local groom about to be discharged from the Army (no service papers survive) his bride, known to all as Kate was an established local logding house keeper at Oak Lodge, Ashurst. Both stated their residences as Ashurst, Colbury.
Albert Henry has me stumped, he died in April 1962 in Lyndhurst Road less than a stones throw from where he'd lived with Kate all of their married life. The 1921 Census says he is 39 and was born in Ashurst. The 1939 Register records his DOB as 26 June 1881 but I can find no birth registration. The marriage certificate says his father was Alfred Henry Bird (deceased) a jockey. I cant find Albert Henry or his father Alfred Henry at all, nothing prior to the marriage.
Kate was from a local family (George and Caroline Peckham) and had possibly romanced her age for the day (38 = birth 1879) because I believe she was baptised 4 years earlier 16th Sept 1875 in Southampton although I can find no appropriate birth registery. The 1921 Census says she was born in Southampton and gave her age as 40. On the 1939 Register she gave her DOB as 16th May 1879. I do however have a solid track on her/family in Census returns etc right up to her marriage to Albert and consistently together afterwards, she died July Quarter 1954 and was aged 79 (born 1875).
Please can anybody help with Kate's birth registry and the 33 years pre-1914 of Albert's life ?
