This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5538/Cei.2ACEB/4158 Message Board Post: i am looking for the birth place and death of my 3x great grandfather, according to he census's all he states is a birth place of devon i estimate his year of birth around the 1829/30 mark,but when i look further into him there seems to be somesort of conspiracy on samuel hicks's in devon/cornwall (there are many on both sides of the moors)his occupation was a gardener and he married a mary ann lane in lambeth in 1848 i cannot locate him in the 1901 census but he is entered on his sons marriage certificate in 1909(so would he have been alive?)i am guessing his death to be in the lambeth (battersea)area but going through the record books i cannot seem to locate him, any help on him.i would be eternally gratefull if anyone can provide the missing links.