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- a possible to throw into the mix, since there seems no trace of Sam* Gun* before 1881...

James is shown as age 10 on the 1881 census

- there is the entry for 1871:

Name: Annie Foster
Age: 25
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1846
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: Samuel Foster
Gender: Female
Where born: Guisbrough, Yorkshire, England
Civil parish: Guisborough
Ecclesiastical parish: Cleveland
Town: Guisborough
County/Island: Yorkshire
Country: England
Registration district: Guisborough
Sub-registration district: Kirkleatham
ED, institution, or vessel: 2
Household schedule number: 102
Piece: 4857
Folio: 41
Page Number: 21
Household Members:
Name Age
Samuel Foster 29
Annie Foster 25
James Foster 1 Week

Samuel is a carpenter; and one way this might fit to your family would be if Samuel and Annie are not married and have supplied Annie's surname.

There is an Annie Foster in Guisboro* on the earlier census returns.

The birth certificate for this James would probably be:

Name: James Foster
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1871
Registration district: Guisborough
Inferred County: Yorkshire North Riding
Volume: 9d
Page: 491

If Samuel Foster or James Foster born in G*s*b*r* can be found on later census/deaths, if would help to eliminate this suggestion as a possibility for your ancestor.

hi all i have noticed that on the death record lost at sea james gunn birth is regestered as gravesend and the census 1881 is middlesbrough is that a misstake

Hi Malcolm, I reckon they've just assumed that the town where he had lived earlier was where he was born, perhaps also because that's where the Leechmere sailed out of.