Naomi, Is the secret to your lack of birth certificate the fact that on the 1871 census it says she was born in Prussia? If this census is accurate then the family must have arrived between 1852 and 1855. I am not sure that it is possible to narrow it any further, unless Henry was naturalised, then you might find a better date. Best Sherry I am trying to verify a time of arrival in England for an ancestor Heinrich (aka Henry) SAMUEL/S. Their eldest child, Fanny Eva SAMUEL/S was born in 1852. I am trying to obtain a birth certificate for Fanny Eva.