England Births
I am researching my great grandfather, William Henry Burchell. He was born on 17 May 1858, but I know not were except someplace in England. His father was Henry Burchell (b1835-1842) and I believe his mother was Ann Saxby.
I have sent to England for three birth certificates and they were all wrong. Because of the quarterly birth dates I keep choosing the wrong birth certificates.
The family immigrated to in the 1860's. No documentation found on their immigration.
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Here is the list of instances of individuals named William Burchell (for the period 1856-1860), as found on the GRO website, from where you should order certificates. As you can see, none show a mother with a maiden name SAXBY, so this could either be incorrect or Saxby might be the name of a former spouse, in whose name Ann (Saxby) married William's father.
I tried searches on variant names of Burchall, Birchall and Birchell, but none of these produced a mother of maiden name Saxby, either.
Update - I just found the marriage between Henry Burchell and Ann Saxby - on the FreeBMD website. It was registered at Eastbourne, Sussex in the September Quarter of 1856, Ref. 2b 105.
Finally, I returned to the GRO website and did a search (through to 1864) and found only one child born to a father Burchell and mother Saxby: Charles Henry Burchell - birth registered 1861 at Northampton.
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Do you know whether the family was still in England in 1861? If so, worth checking the 1861 census.
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Paul W I cannot thank you enough. You did an enormous amount of research to gather all of that information. Thank you so very much. I just might be able to handle it from here. I had finally come to the conclusion that Saxby was probably not the correct woman. In the past I have researched Jenkins, Farrell, and a couple more. Sooner or later I find enough documentation to prove I had the wrong mother for William Henry. Now it is time for me to research this list of possibilities which you sent. Thank you!
Graham Buckell, that is the point, I do not know. Their son William Henry Burchell was born in England on 17 May 1858. They were in Illinois on January 16, 1869 when their daughter Emma Margaret Burchell was born. By the1870 US Census Henry and his two children were in Westmorland County, Pennsylvania nd he had another wife. I believe the family entered the US through Canada and Illinois as there were no immigration employees nor laws in effect at that time.
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