On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:53:51 +0100 "Denis R. Hamilton" <[email protected]> wrote: > William [the elder] was according to the 1851/1861 & 1871 Census > "Born At Sea" - and that is where I am stuck, there are no records > -as far as my researching has gone - for children Born At Sea > covering the period William would have been born i.e. About 1816. > His father according to his Marriage Cert was also William and he > was a Labourer. ONS GRO CHAPLINS RETURNS/ MARRIAGES I found an > entry for a William Jeffrey EDWARDS who married Ann HARE at Ostend > in 1815. I decided to purchase a copy. It states Netherlands / > 1815 November 13th / No.14 William Jeffrey EDWARDS / Gent & > Lieutenant in the Royal Navy / Batchelor and Ann HALL/ Spinster. > By Me Thomas MORRIS Chaplain to the Forces. Why Ann is HARE in the > Indexes and HALL on the Cert I have not delved into. I sent for > this Cert as William [the Elder] named one of his sons Jeffrey > [Geoffrey] but I do not feel that a Gent & Lieutenant in the Navy > would have become a Labourer - but..... one never knows! Clutching at straws time! How about? 1851 Census, High Street, Scilly Isles William Edwards, head, 63, Extraman Coast Guard, Gillingham, Kent Mary Ann, wife, 57 , Brunton, Kent Sarah, dau, 32, Chatham, Kent Caroline, dau, 18, Gillingham, Kent Eleanor, dau, 16, Gillingham, Kent I hadn't come across the term Extraman before but a coastguard is just the sort of thing an ex-navy man might become. *this link mentions extraman http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/Leaflets/ri2044.htm -- John Lewis Debian Linux with Geneweb genealogy application