Hi Brian There are some serious problems regarding that 1861 household In 1861 there is a Henry SILLETT head married 58 rag collector ???borough Norfolk Ann SILLETT wife married 40 Brooke Norfolk Margaret Jane SILLETT 11 Brooke Norfolk Going back to the 1851 census On Ancestry there are only four Ann* born 1819 to 1823 Brooke Norfolk Anne Palmer DARBY Mary Ann ELLIS Ann GADGE Ann SILAM None have a child Margaret b1850ish in Brooke or elsewhere Of Margaret, there are two born 1849 to 1851 Brooke Norfolk in the 1851, a Margaret KENT to James & Sarah and an Eliza Margaret WARNER to Robert & Charlotte The only Margaret SILLETT is registered in Hartismere in 1850 Brooke came under Lodden reg district but in the GRO there are no Margaret Jane registered at all pre census There is but one registered in Dec qtr 1851 A Margaret Jane RICHES 13 207 but haven't found her after that In the 1871 entry he is stated as a widower but more telling is that he is a lodger, so details may have been entered for him, rather than he himself He is enumerated as 78 a pedlar born what looks like Albrige Norfolk Margaret is also a lodger unmarried aged 19 a housekeeper, born Brook Norfolk Using the Genuki gazetteer the best options appear to be Alburgh or Aldborough No amount of shaking the 1851 tree will make Henry fall out I am afraid Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 22/07/2014 12:26, Brian Sillett wrote: > Hi Nivard, > > I thank you for your continuing interest interest and suggestions. The > 1861 census has his age 58 but in 1871 he was 78 and given I have his > death certificate in 1872 age 80, I assume 58 should have been 68 but it > looks like 58 on the image. > > If he was 80 in 1872, his birth year is about 1792. Given his wife Ann > on the 1861 census is age 40, it looks as if Henry had a previous wife. > His birth places on all census records I have looked at are all unclear. > > I have yet to find Henry, Ann or daughter Margaret on the 1851 census > and must have another go. I don't have any access to Brooke, Nfk records > where Ann and Margaret were born. > > Many thanks again > > Brian Sillett