can anyone help ?

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Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 48 Send Message	Dean	Report	3 Oct 2009 14:42
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 48 Send Message	thanks kath for the birth certificate
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 48 Send Message	Dean	Report	3 Oct 2009 14:41
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 48 Send Message	thanks trevor you could be right about the name
Member Since: November 2003 Posts: 28,261 Send Message	KathleenBell	Report	3 Oct 2009 14:28
	This looks like the daughter's birth. The certificate would give her mother's name:- Name: Faith Porter Year of Registration: 1849 Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun District: Rye County: Kent, Sussex Volume: 7 Page: 489 I'd be inclined to think the mother's first name was Alice. Kath. x
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 147 Send Message	Trevor	Report	3 Oct 2009 14:27
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 147 Send Message	maybe a spelling mistake alice and eliss sound similar have you ordered sons birth certificate that would give you there names trevor
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 48 Send Message	Dean	Report	3 Oct 2009 14:22
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 48 Send Message	i have a john porter b 1820 portsmouth,married to Elliss in the 1861 census in east sussex & looks like Allice in the 1851 census in brede, which name is right. i cannot find a marriage in either name, their eldest son was 7 years old in 1851. Can you help.