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Also in the past some of the celebs have been surprised at things that happened a lot in genealogy. Babs Windsor found she had a bit of Irish ancestors in her who settled in London then she found her paternal line originated in Suffolk and she was surprised as to why a Suffolk man would be in London. Babs, in the 1800s London was full of Norfolk and Suffolk people. Many Londoners claim Norfolk and Suffolk and Essex blood plus other areas of the UK.
My ancestor is on the 1900 US census. He says he arrived in America about 1887. I then found the passenger list in 1886 of someone with the right name and travelling with a daughter whose name and age matched that of my ancestors youngest daughter. The surname Musgrave is a lot less common than Johnson. I then found that a Margaret Musgrave married a Thomas Prosser in the right area of America in 1889 and the 1900 census says she was born in March 1871 in England and arrived in 1887. With that I think I can conclude that I have the right passenger list entry thanks to info given on the 1900 census and ages matching but with a commoner surname I'd want a bit more proof.
Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain