That's an excellent question --- is there a data base available that lists who was born on any given date country or county wide? What a boon that would be to genealogical research! Sally Finnila-Sloane On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Jon's FH wrote: > From: Fee Manley Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:46 AM > To: Chris Gilham ; london@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LON]Can I Find > Who Was Born On A Certain Day? > > > There is a William J HOGG in the 1871 census whose birthplace is > given as Shoreditch, born c. 1856. > > Name: William J Hogg > Age: 15 > Estimated Birth Year: abt 1856 > Relation: Son > Father's Name: William J Hogg > Mother's Name: Betsy M Hogg > Gender: Male > Where born: Shoreditch, London, England > Civil parish: St Paul > Ecclesiastical parish: St Paul > County/Island: Bedfordshire > Country: England > Registration district: Bedford > Sub-registration district: Bedford and Cardington > ED, institution, or vessel: 9 > Household schedule number: 50 > Piece: 1544 > Folio: 61 > Page Number: 11 > >>>>>>>>>> > > Hi Chris, > > Further to the 1871 census entry that was found earlier (above): > William Johnson Hogg and Betsy Maria Ling were married at Shoreditch > in the January-March qtr of 1855. > then the birth of a William Johnson Hogg was made in Shoreditch in the > April-June quarter of 1856. > > If this is the correct William Johnson (or John) Hogg, could it > possibly be that he gave the wrong age so that he could join the Navy? > It certainly wouldn't be an isolated incident if that is what > happened, it happened a great deal. > Just something to ponder on? > > Kind regards, > > Jon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > This mailing list works in parallel with the London surname interest > list on the web at http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/london.html . > Check for matching interests and add your own ! > > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: LONDON-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LONDON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message