Lyn, Stanwell Moor was in the county of Middlesex until the 1960s, when it moved to Surrey along with most of the area around Staines on the north bank of the River Thames. I'm pretty sure it was in the Staines registration district. Your 1838 registration in Staines therefore seems very likely. Bob Brock www.badger55.co.uk -----Original Message----- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:04:18 +1100 From: "Lyn Yates" <lyn-yates@bigpond.com> Subject: [SRY] Bringing home the lost and strayed (GREEN, Stanwell Moor) To: <Eng-Surrey@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <000a01cde4eb$158b4a70$40a1df50$@bigpond.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi everyone, I?m having trouble with WILLIAM HENRY GREEN b1837 or 1838 Stanwell Moor, which I understand was then in Surrey. As yet I have no certificates, but having searched ancestry many times, I have found him on censuses in 1861 where he seems to be a grocers assistant in Walton-on-Thames, 1881 in Hoxton where his occupation is given as tallyman, and finally in 1891 again in Hoxton where he is a wharf labourer.? In 1841 there is the possibility of his family living in West Drayton but it shows the whole family as born out of county. ?However given my lack of knowledge of the area, the county border could be closeby and they?ve moved only a few miles. His wife was Mary Ann b1842 Liverpool (possibly Mary Ann Langford, married St Giles Without Cripplegate 20 May 1861). His children Henry b1866 Cove Hampshire, Robert b1875 Hoxton, Florence b1880 Shoreditch.? Robert married Elizabeth Mary Jane Davies (b1867 Hoxton) 1898 Hoxton Square St Peters at which time he described his father as deceased. Green is such a common name and I feel I?m getting nowhere fast, as I?ve been trying to find more information on him for several years now.? There is a birth registered MarchQ 1838 Staines for William Henry, and unless evidence comes to the contrary, I will buy that certificate, as well as the 1861 marriage.? I don?t know why he would have been in Hampshire when Henry was born.? I?d really like to know who his parents were and where they were from, why he (or at least his wife) may have been in Hampshire and which death is his (though there is one for 1897 in Southwark I think that seems likely). Any help or suggestions would be very gratefully received! Thanks, Lyn Rye, Australia