Notes Thomas Gordon) Brockelbank was born Oct. 10, 1897, at the infirmary of the Shoreditch Workhouse (Shoreditch, Middlesex, London, UK) to Thomas Robert Leonard Brockelbank and Sarah Annie Kirk. His birth certificate gives his d.o.b.as Oct. 9, 1897, but his baptismal record gives it as Oct. 10, 1897, which is the same as given in the workhouse infirmary records and is most likely the correct date. However our family always celebrated his birthday on Dec. 25, which we changed in the early 1960's, probably because he had obtained a copy of his birth certificate in order to apply for Social Security as he approached retirement. I believe, besides learning his correct date of birth, he probably also learned he was at least two years older than he has thought he was! Besides having three birthdays, Dad was also proboably baptized three times: first as an infant as Church of England; second, as a Baptist, which he probably converted to because it was probably the faith of the people he was placed with in New Brunswick; third, as a Catholic, which he converted to within the last year before he died (an interesting story in itself!). 
BROCKLEBANK, Thomas Gordon