Calling on expert Brummies here.
I have my great granddad on 2 censuses and on them it is stated that his birthplace was Birmingham. It has or still is a long arduous task to find the correct baptism for him, and find him on earlier censuses. I have come across a baptism now that took place in Aston, now I know that is not far from Birmingham, as one Brummie told me years ago 'it is only a spit from Birmingham', but do you think that someone would have said Birmingham as their birthplace, could well have meant Aston? Would Birmingham and Aston been classed as the same place!
Then, there is the fact that he may have been actually born in Birmingham but just baptised at Aston, for whatever reason.
The family that I think he may have come from are living at Bordesley on the 1841 and 1851 censuses.
A complicated one, as we don't know really sometimes where are ancestors were born.
Ewan
I have my great granddad on 2 censuses and on them it is stated that his birthplace was Birmingham. It has or still is a long arduous task to find the correct baptism for him, and find him on earlier censuses. I have come across a baptism now that took place in Aston, now I know that is not far from Birmingham, as one Brummie told me years ago 'it is only a spit from Birmingham', but do you think that someone would have said Birmingham as their birthplace, could well have meant Aston? Would Birmingham and Aston been classed as the same place!
Then, there is the fact that he may have been actually born in Birmingham but just baptised at Aston, for whatever reason.
The family that I think he may have come from are living at Bordesley on the 1841 and 1851 censuses.
A complicated one, as we don't know really sometimes where are ancestors were born.
Ewan