Brian Ross wrote:
My Grandfather John Ross was born at Dogsthorpe, Peterborough in April 1876 to William Ross and Elizabeth(formerly Hard). William Ross is shown as a Groom on the birth certificate. I have no idea where they lived when he was born but thought it may be on the census. My Grandfather & family immigrated to New Zealand in 1909.
I found John Ross in the 1881 census, but by this time his family had moved to Walton on the Wolds in Leicestershire, and the fact that John's brother Frederick was born in Empingham Rutland in 1878, would indicate they didn't stay in Dogsthorpe long after John's birth.
In 1871 John's father William was just 15 and a servant at Alconbury Weston, not far from his birthplace in Buckworth, Huntingdonshire.