Hello Maree, Probably your best bet would be to buy the birth certificate... >From the information you don't give - his absence from the 1881 and 1891 Censuses - the initial presumption has to be that he was illegitimate; that his mother likely married at some stage between his birth and the 1881 Census; and that he was recorded there (and in 1891) under his [step?]-father's surname. HTH Gus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maree" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 8:14 AM Subject: [WAR] William Thomas STOKES B 1878 s/o Ann Charlotte STOKES > Hello from New Zealand > > Can anyone help here please ?? > > We are hoping to locate the parents of this lad - his mother was Ann > Charlotte STOKES ..... > Births Dec 1878 > > Stokes William Thomas Coventry 6d 551 > > > 1901 Census - Warwickshire Coventry > > William T Stokes 22yrs Warwick Coventry Warwick Coventry - Labourer > Iron Foundry > > > 1911 Census - Coventry Warwickshire > > STOKES WILLIAM THOMAS - M - B 1879 - 32yrs CoventryWarwickshire > > Any assistance greatly appreciated ..... a family in Canada would like to > make contact please.... > > Kind regards from Maree S. Gordon < [email protected] > > > List archives are at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/WARWICK > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message