Opinions please - Genealogists' Forum

Asa · #1 28-11-10, 08:15

Having looked at my 3 x great grandfather John Carr again for the other thread, I'm wondering if I have found his baptism.

All I really know about him is from the 1841 and 1851 census and from the baptisms of two of his children, which amounts to a few addresses and that he was a carpenter born in Middlesex (1841), more specifically Pancras (1851). Looking at the image of the 1851 census,

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...rc=&pid=128779

, I can't be sure of his age but the transcription gives it as 44. The two 4s don't look the same to me and I wonder if it's 40. I know there's only a few years in it so it's not that important but there is a baptism for a John Carr at St George Bloomsbury Camden, son of Daniel and his second wife Elizabeth. When I look at the baptisms of their other children, Daniel is a carpenter of St Pancras.

John's eldest son is John and his second is Daniel so I have the right area and time, shared trade and repetition of names - I've been looking at this too intensely and need someone else's please

kiterunner · #2 28-11-10, 10:13

It looks like 44 to me; the two 4s do look the same but the line crossing through them obscures part. If you compare Elizabeth's 40 you will see that the 0 has the thick line on the left and the 4 has it on the right. Of course census ages aren't always very accurate.

Nell · #3 28-11-10, 14:00

Hi Asa!

I'm with KiteRunner, I think its 44. I've been puzzled by badly written 4s before, when I had less experience of enumerators' writing.

#4 28-11-10, 14:59

Hello, Asa

I agree, definitely 44; that line crossing out has caused me many a puzzle

Asa · #5 28-11-10, 15:38

Hello all and thank you - I must have been looking at it too long this morning. Do you think it's probably not the bloke I'm after then?

Nell · #6 28-11-10, 15:55

You haven't said the date of the baptism you found that you're trying to tie in with him.

Asa · #7 28-11-10, 16:00

Sorry Nell :-) Born 19 Feb 1811 and bapt 28 Feb 1811 at St George Bloomsbury.

Nell · #8 28-11-10, 16:28

Hm, well, it seems it isn't your chap - unless he was being vague about his age. My sympathies, I have some frustrating stuff like that too!

Asa · #9 28-11-10, 16:43

I don't feel he is either Nell but I'd spent so long looking at it this morning I'd almost convinced myself it had to be him. Thanks