All we currently know about your gr-grandfather William James SOLE is his birthdate and the place of registration which was Horsham in the county of Sussex.

We have records of one large Sussex family and a few smaller ones, but with such limited data we have been unable to connect him with any of our SOLE families.

You state that his father was James SOLE; did you find this from a copy of his birth certificate? If not, I suggest your next action should be to obtain a copy of the certificate from the ONS in London, web reference > www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/< and the reference is >1877-DEC HORSHAM 2b-312<. Alternatively the Society will obtain it for you. The cost would be £8 which you could pay through Pay Pal via our web site.

The certificate should contain his father's and mother's name from which we would have a better chance of linking William to one of our trees.

Bob Sheldon
Name co-ordinator.