That is what makes genealogy interesting. You are right that that does seem strange. I was using ancestry.com to extract and there are other families with the same name. Likely you will have to extract to find the right ones. Good luck. Elizabeth (Blake) Kipp On Nov 28, <bob.newell@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > I think it may be I will have to find his birth details to be sure. his > father comes from St Peter Port and was married in alverstoke Gosport 15 Oct > 1860 now why would he go back to Guernsey when all his other children were > born in Alverstoke unless the error is in the birthplace of John and the > enumerator got it wrong. The other thing is Thomas Henry in the 1861 is > living with his wife no children at his mother in laws house. Now why would > a man take his wife who was born in Yorkshire to Guernsey to have a child