could you ask for this to be linked ,with your other posts about this man, as I just started to look then realised I did ages ago.
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Hi
Sorry slip of the fingers, should have been baptism not birth!
Any Henrys I have found in the 1841 both in Northampton and Marylebone (as I dont know when he moved South) do not tally and none have a father called William. I have also searched for a death for William using a birth year of 1790 +/- 10 years and other variations but unsuccessful again.
The Northampton baptismal records are on line and again I have searched these but wonder whether from your suggestion that I should go through these one by one to see if I can find him. I can dream that he was missed off the transcription!
There are also some Henry Cross' within the Northampton area, who are involved in the shoe making industry, but I have created trees for them and they have theyre own lives (and deaths) which do not tie in with my man.
Thank you for your suggestions.
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If he was illegitimate, then he might have made up the name William as his father.
Not unknown, I'm afraid!!! We all have them!
Another possible reason is that father left the family, or died, when Henry was very young, and Henry forgot his Father's name, so again made one up.My grandmother, on the beach, South Bay, Scarborough, undated photo (poss. 1929 or 1930)
Researching Cadd, Schofield, Cottrell in Lancashire, Buckinghamshire; Taylor, Park in Westmorland; Hayhurst in Yorkshire, Westmorland, Lancashire; Hughes, Roberts in Wales.
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Have you checked non-C of E baptisms for Northampton? Have you considered some of the villages on the outskirts of Northampton, e.g Kingsthorpe, Weston Favell, Duston, which are now parts of the city of Northampton?
JayJanet in Yorkshire
Genealogists never die - they just swap places in the family tree
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The surname Cross could have been that of a stepfather (whether he was illegitimate or not) and so may not have been the surname he had at baptism. Alternatively, he may have reverted to the surname Cross after being known by another name as a child. Funnily enough a friend of mine's great grandfather did just that and reverted to his mother's maiden name of Cross (yes, really) after finding he had been born well before his parents' marriage.
Anne
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Originally posted by Gill D View PostHi I started a further post about Henry yesterday which I think "Val" suggested be linked with this one although I was asking a different question. Thank youChrissie passed away in January 2020.
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