Hi Joan, Are we related in some way? Edwin Pound's father, George, was the brother of my 2xgt grandfather, John Pound! However, although Edwin is in my tree, it is a branch I have not really researched much myself. Two other researchers that I have been in contact with over the years have done most of the work, and there is a tree going back to a Thomas Pound who married in Ludlow in 1665. The first of these contacts was back in 1999, Ann, in Australia, who had spent many many hours trawling through the parish register films at her local LDS Family History Centre. The second is John, in Canada, who is himself descended from Edwin Pound and who contacted me in 2005 through GenesReunited. John has Edwin Pound born on 21 Jun 1872 at Rochford, and christened there on 23 July 1875. I cannot site any sources. I will send you Ann & John's contact details off list, though they may be out of date. To be given an extensive tree can be a mixed blessing. It takes some of the fun out of researching it yourself. Also, I would be very interested to hear what other listers feel about the ethics of passing on other peoples research wholesale. Best wishes, Joe Joan Cowdell wrote: >Hello List > >Could anyone offer advice on a problem? I have George and Elizabeth >POUND recorded on every census from 1871 to 1901 living at Rochford, >Worcs. with a dozen or so children. The births of the children are all >recorded at the GRO and their baptisms appear on the IGI – all except >one, and of course he is the one I need! He is Edwin POUND born about >1876 and he doesn’t seem to have been registered or baptised, and I >don’t understand why when all the other children were – and he wasn’t >the first or last child, he came right in the middle. He is on the 1881 >census aged 5, on the 1891 aged 14, and on the 1901 (called Edward but I >can accept that as a mistake by the enumerator) aged 25. > >Does anyone have access to the Rochford parish records, who would be >willing to look at children of George and Elizabeth through the 1870’s? >And has anyone got any other suggestions? I would really like his birth >certificate but I need some proof that he was born! > >Joan > >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.19/1258 - Release Date: >04/02/2008 10:10 > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >