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My great grand father Thomas henry Dawkin(s) first appears in official records on the 1881 census aged 15, living with the Joseph Beck family in Sutton on Forest, he is an apprentice tailor. His birthplace is shown as Keighley in the West Riding, but his birth is not registered there. He gives the same birthplace on all future census forms and when he marries Betty Webster in Sutton on Forest in 1887, he shows his father as Thomas Henry Dawkin dec'd; I have been unable to find any trace of records of his father. The 1871 census shows that Joseph Beck had a different apprentice and so I assume, my great grandfather moved in with the Beck family sometime between 1871 and 1881. Does anyone have any ideas about how Thomas Dawkin might have ended up in an apprenticeship in Sutton, it's about 40 miles from Keighley? I am trying to follow up any leads which might help identify his family history prior to 1881.
Thanks