A tree (yours) on Ancestry has his obituary and it says he was born May 1809 and that he came to USA c1834 Here is a christening for May 1809 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J7SL-LJX Not saying it's him but......... However his gravestone says he was born 1808 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi? page=gr&GSln=THOM&GSfn=H&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=36&GScntry=4&GSsr=241&GRid=69024354& As he seems to have emigrated before the English census we can't trace him via those. It would have helped if the ages on the US census were consistent Sheila. ======================================== Message Received: Jan 24 2014, 06:44 PM From: "Ronald E. Schultz" To: devon@rootsweb.com Cc: Subject: [DEV] Introduction I am new on this list as I just subscribed yesterday. I am sure my first question is very routine. All I have is some basic information about my ancestor. His name was Henry Thomas and born in May 1808 or 1809. His obituary of 1891 stated that he was from Devonshire. I have as of this date no information on his parents or location of parish where baptism records might be kept. I do not even know if Thomas is a common last name in Devon. Could someone write to let me know the first steps in beginning my search. I thank you in advanced. -- Ronald E. Schultz 3970 Joy Road Occidental, CA 95465 leutsch@sonic.net ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message