. Charles Grimes b. 1819 and wife Martha b.1818 are on the 1851 census in Whitby, Eastham, Cheshire (Ref: H.O. 107/2173) with their 6 children. All children were baptised as being the son or daughter of Charles and Martha Grimes. They have 2 children born and baptised in Liverpool, Daniel 1857 and Jane 1859 both from the same address Johnson Street, on Jane's baptism it says occupation Brewer, his usual occupation being carter or labourer.
On the marriage of their son James to Abigail Burgess in 1873 it say his father is James Grimes, a brewer. So after much thought I put that down to our equivalent of a name typo.
Yesterday I finally received the death certificates I'd been waiting for. On the DC for Martha who died of Fever in February 1861 it says wife of James Grimes, a brewers labourer, she died in the courts at Gascoyne Street. The informant was Dorothy Griffith of 15 Bevington Hill.
Charles died days later in the Workhouse a surgeon in attendance, he died of Typhus fever. I'm thinking that he was a patient rather than an inmate as it said he was a labourer, though no home address was given. The 3 youngest children except for a baby were admitted 3 months later to the Workhouse then released after 2 weeks to an Industrial School maybe Kirkdale?
So after mulling on this overnight I'm wondering if on official type records marriage, census, baptisms etc he used his legal name of Charles but would be known more commonly as James, which was also his father's name BTW. The only trouble with this scenario is he had a brother James, I've just checked other trees and brother James died in Eastham in 1877.
I should also say all dates and ages seem to match.
Your thoughts are much appreciated TIA.
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