Dear Warren, Just some suggestions. You may have to follow up both Benjamin Allens and check their families before being able to determine which is yours (if either). They may look like the same person for a while, but here are some suggestions to separate the two of them: 1. Check marriages in parish registers of both of these and their siblings and children - parish registers often state parents names and also witnesses can be family, sometimes aunts and uncles are witnesses to next generation marriages. This may help you build up a picture of which family is which. 2. Check what happened to both of these in later censuses - very often grandchildren may be staying with grandparents, or elderly parents living with sons or daughters (sometime in my experience recorded as "visitors" or "lodgers" - their relationship not explicitly mentioned). This again helps build up a picture of the family. 3. Take a look at the original census pages and see who is living next door or just down the road - I've had some surprises here, too! This all helps to build up a picture of a wider family. It may be a process of elimination that takes you down the correct path. Good luck! Colleen From: Warren Diggins <digginswj@aol.com> To: norfolk@rootsweb.com Date: 03/07/2011 10:21 AM Subject: [NFK] Benjamin Allen or Wighton or Williamson born Hevingham c. 1832/3 Hi Listers, I am trying to resolve an issue with two registration entries in FreeReg for a birth at St Botolph Hevingham. They both relate to Registry Entry 581, one indicating that Benjamin Allen was the illegitimate son of a woman surname Wighton, the other has father as surname Allen and mother as Elizabeth Wighton. I am wondering whether this Benjamin Allen has anything to do with the Elizabeth Williamson who married William Wighton at St Botolph Hevingham in 1832. Any ideas / assistance greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Warren Diggins (Australia)