Hello List, Have you lost a Henry Edward? I'm returning again to have another attempt at battering down my brickwall! Despite a full search by the GRO, there does not appear to be a birth registration for my grandfather Henry Edward HARRIS. Verbal family history says that his birth date was 5 November 1876 but because both he and my grandmother died when I was a very small child there is little else to go on. Virtually all of my information is from his Army service record, which I was able to obtain last year. This confirms his probable birth year as 1876, gives his parents as Henry Alfred and Emma HARRIS and his place of birth as West Hartlepool. Helpful fellow searchers have trawled the parish records but no joy there either. He and his parents are on the 1891 census for Rotherham, as expected from grandfather's marriage certificate, listed as follows Henry HARRIS M 49 M Leicester, Leics, England Emma ATKIN M 51 F Boston, Lincoln, England Henry ATKIN U 14 M West Hartlepool, Durham, England This is the probable family in 1881, at 12 Bishop Square, Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorks Henry ATKIN M 39 M Leicester, England Emma ATKIN M 41 F Boston, Lincoln, England Henry ATKIN U 4 M West Hartlepool, Durham, England Again, a fellow researcher has explored the 1871 West Hartlepool census for HARRIS, with no success as yet. Could it be that I have one of those contrary families who used a different alias wherever they went!....If so, do you have a Henry Edward without a home after 1876? Regards, in desperation - Patrisia Carrington Penmaenmawr, North Wales