In the previous post (Going backwards from birth), from the 1874 marriage certificate for Henry Tipton and Lydia Cox we went back to Lydia's parents. However, we cannot just repeat that for Henry, because the wedding paperwork does not name his father.
Also, Henry is not with a father or his mother in any census record. Three years before his marriage, Henry is, at least for the census night and possibly long term, staying with an uncle and aunt, Francis and Jane Tipton. (They are actually in the same street where his future wife is also living.) However, ten years further back Henry age 7 was a boarder with an unrelated couple called George and Elizabeth Collier.
On those census records Henry's county of birth is given as Shropshire. From the ages quoted we can estimate that he was born around 1852-1854 and there is a corresponding birth registration in the Bridgnorth district, with no father named.
In July 2012 I visited the Shropshire Archives
and consulted an expert archivist. They double-checked and found no
church bastardy records or law court records that might have identified
Henry's father. There does not seem to be any record that his mother
married soon after the birth in a "baby came early" scenario.
The register of baptisms in the parish of Worfield, in the County of Salop, states that Henry was born on 8 November 1853 and baptised on 18 December 1853. His mother is identified as Fanny Tipton, "single woman", abode Ackleton. In 1861 a woman matching her description is a Servant in Wolverhampton, then ten years later a Housekeeper in London, in the household of Lord Brougham Vaux, Peer of the Realm.
From the limited, official records available it is not clear what, if any, involvement Henry had with either of his parents. Perhaps his mother had moved away alone to find work and was sending money for Henry's upkeep. Perhaps she was in regular contact and sending love for her only child. What we know for certain is that Henry gave his oldest daughter the name Fanny, which was his mother's name.