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Jonesey

Jonesey Report 9 May 2011 22:01

On the certificate is there an address indicating exactly where he was born?

DebifromLeeds

DebifromLeeds Report 9 May 2011 21:53

Hi everyone, this is my first post on the 'board', so I'm not too sure how much to say, I started my family tree about a month ago and its kind of taken over at the moment.
The above name is my great great grandfather, that was his birth name. Robert's DOB is 06/05/1851 and he was born in Dewsbury, Leeds. I can't find him in the 1861 census, but in the 1871 census, he is calling himself 'Robert Henry W Gaunt and is married to Hannah Gaunt nee Barraclough. He is working as a Iron furnance man and living in Lower Wortley.
1881 = Robert H Gaunt
1891 = Robert H Gaunt
1901 = Robert Henry W Gaunt
1911 = Robert Henry Wilks Gaunt
He always lived in the lower Wortley area and had various jobs...Engine firer, Labourer, Brickyard Labourer, Brick setter. He had 10 children
Samuel, Martha, Richard/Robinson, Ruth, Mary, Kate, Benjamin, Edith and Emily. He died in 1927, aged 75.
I received his birth certificate today and there is no fathers name on it, just his mothers ELIZABETH GAUNT WILKS and no other information about her, I ca't find Robert or Elizabeth in the 1861 census and I've searched all the different variations of both their names???
Can anyone help? or have I come to the end of the line?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Debi Gaunt-Walsh :D