Arthur FARMER, b. 1861 Wolverhampton, nurse child 1861 census Stretton

[PatLac]

I can't find any other reference to Arthur FARMER, b. 1861 Wolverhampton, probably March or early April, because he is listed in the 1861 Census, aged 0, nursechild living with Jane Dyke, 63, widowed, her daughter Harriet Fowler, 20, widowed, and granddaughter Jane Elizabeth Fowler, 1, at Stretton Village, Stretton, Penkridge.

Is it possible to buy his birth certificate on the GRO website, if I'm not a UK resident?

[rosie99]

Yes, you can purchase a digital image for £3 on the GRO website

FARMER, ARTHUR   mmn    BISHOP 
GRO Reference: 1861  J Quarter in WOLVERHAMPTON  Volume 06B  Page 400

[PatLac]

Thank you Rosie!

[CaroleW]

Here’s his baptismal record

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL3L-ZSBS

Other Farmer children b Wolverhampton with mmn Bishop

Ann 1847
John 1850
Harriett 1851
Eliza 1853
Thomas 1855
Richard 1856

1861 has some of the above names with parents Thomas 34 & Eliza 38

Thomas Farmer & Eliza Bishop married 1846 www.freebmd.org.uk

1861 entry

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7CK-31K

[PatLac]

Thanks Carole, I've already merged 'my' Arthur Farmer with his original family tree on FS. I suppose he is the same because there is no record of other Arthur Farmer born in Wolverhampton in 1861, but I wonder why he was living as a nursechild after he was born?

[CaroleW]

Perhaps Eliza had a bad birth & couldn't cope

[PatLac]

Yes, but I couldn't find any link between the families so far, and isn't the distance between Kinver (where the Farmer family was based) and Stretton Village a bit too far for those times?

[CaroleW]

You say you can't find "any other reference" to him after 1861 but he is living with his parents in 1871? 

Why does there have to be a biological link between the families?

[PatLac]

You say you can't find him after 1861  but he is living with his parents in 1871

Does there have to be a link?

Not really. I'm actually looking for another Arthur born in Wolverhampton in 1861 that could have been adopted by John Marsden (Railway Foreman). Now I know he's not Arthur Farmer. Check the thread 'The mysterious Mr. Marsden' https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=850295.msg7177758#msg7177758