If they were Lancs people Cornwall would have seemed like a foreign land being so far away, so why choose that. As I said I think perhaps he lived there as a lad and so believed quite genuinely that he was born there.
Its a shame that we cannot find other Lancs people who were born there or trace James siblings.......
One day the answer may well just turn up !!!! It may be that the appopriate Cornish records are not available yet.
Fizzy
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