Hello Joan, I am wondering if all these children really were George and Elizabeth's. George and Maria's baptisms are also missing from the IGI extracted records, and if Maria was 17 in 1891 then she would be the same age as her sister Elizabeth, and Elizabeth's baptism is on IGI. Maria's age is not clear so maybe she was 7 as she's at the end of the list, but her mother was then 54, making her 47 at the time of birth. That's not impossible, but they could have been taking in the children of an older son or daughter (their eldest, Henry, was born in 1864). The younger children could have been born elsewhere and possibly with a different name! I don't want to make you feel pessimistic, but it's a good idea to keep all the options open! Viv From: "Joan Cowdell" <[email protected]> > > 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! >