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Hi This is sideways on my tree but it's got me I have a Sarah Bullimore married to a Benjamin Brittain . They had a few children not sure how many but in the 1841 census they had
Speechley Brittain 15 <<
James "" 15 <<
Robert 10
Joseph 10
Harriot 7
Benjamin 5

I have seen a Marriage for a Speechley John and censuses 51/61 for him
My problem is I can't find a birth for Speechley or James
someone has got them as the same person? and living in Australia and dying there but every thing is down as James
Can anyone find anything out to prove if it is one or two people ??
They were born in Leverington Cambridgeshire

This site has Robert Brittain born 23 Sep. 1827, Leverington, Cambridgeshire and died 9 May 1905, Port Pirie, S. Australia. Also a photo of him:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=90857334&ref=acom

Field Value
County Cambridgeshire
Place (link for place information) Leverington
Church name St Leonard
Register type Parish Register
Register entry number 280
Baptism date 14 Oct 1821
Person forename Speechley John
Person sex M
Person abode Gorefield
Father forename Benjamin
Father surname BRITAIN
Father occupation Shopkeeper
Mother forename Sarah
Register note

Reference for Marriage...

Chris :)

County Cambridgeshire
Place Leverington
Church name St Leonard
Register type Parish Register
Register entry number 14
Marriage date 26 Mar 1815
Groom forename Benjamin
Groom surname BRITTIN
Groom condition bachelor
Groom parish Leverington
Bride forename Sarah
Bride surname BULLAMORE
Bride condition spinster
Bride parish Wisbech St Peter in the County of Cambridge
Witness James BRITTIN
Witness Wm THORNTON
Register note Couple and wit 1 signed X

http://www.freereg.org.uk/

(if anything else relating on above link)


https://www.cfhs.org.uk/searchsd.cfm

(Cambridgeshire Baptisms/Burials 1801 - 1837)

(one about below)

Chris :)

03 April 1880 - Cambridge Independent Press - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

John Missen, farmer, of Leverington, was charged with assaulting Speechley J. Brittain, farmer, at Leverington, on the 18th March.—Defendant pleaded not guilty.


01 December 1883 - Cambridge Independent Press - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Speechley John Brittain, journeyman bricklayer, was charged on remand with assaulting his son-in-law. Walter Bradley, labourer, at Leverington.


Marriages Sep 1879 (>99%)
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Bradley Walter Wisbeach 3b 899
Brittain Annie Wisbeach 3b 899

Thank you for finding Sheepley John's birth so with that their should be a birth for James
Marriage is the right one and yes Robert went to Australia and James ?? if we can prove he did every thing I've seen on this other tree is for James but doesn't say when he went
I have censuses for Speechley until 1881 when he was a widow

Yes Sheepley is a bricklayer on the censuses Thank you

Baptism
County Cambridgeshire
Place Leverington
Church name St Leonard
Register type Parish Register
Register entry number 326
Baptism date 18 May 1823
Person forename James
Person sex M
Person abode Gorefield
Father forename Benjamin
Father surname BRITAIN
Father occupation Shopkeeper
Mother forename Sarah


Baptism
County Cambridgeshire
Place Leverington
Church name St Leonard
Register type Parish Register
Register entry number 466
Baptism date 23 Sep 1827
Person forename Robert
Person sex M
Person abode Gorefield
Father forename Benjamin
Father surname BRITAIN
Father occupation Shopkeeper
Mother forename Sarah

Chris :)

07 October 1876 - Cambridge Independent Press - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Death
Brittain—September 27, at Gorefield, Sarah widow of Benjamin Brittain, aged 87.

Thing is on the 1841 census they rounded the childrens ages up to the nearest 5 years. Thats why you get what you think at first is twins.

My great gran on the 1841 census has three children all the same age.

As you can see from both baptisms they were definately two people born two years apart.

Mel

The ages of people over the age of 15 on the 1841 Census are usually rounded DOWN to the nearest 5

Some enumerators did not do that, ju7st to confuse matters ............. but you can usually tell if all ages 15 and above end in either 0 or 5.


This means that a person who is shown as 15 on the 1841 is actually between the ages of 15 and 19. Put another way ............... someone who is 15 on that census could have been born between 1822 and 1826.