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I am so grateful to Bookbox for translating these Sessions records. I had found them on Ancestry and put them in my tree for Thomas Randerson with the note that I couldn't read them. Is it alright for me to copy the translations? I hope so.

 My great great grandfather Thomas Comb/Combs/Combe was born illegitimately in Broadway Worcestershire in 1788. His mother was Sarah Comb/Combs/Combe. He was baptised at St Eadburgha's Church in Broadway. When he was 10 he was apprenticed to James Bee a tailor of Sevenhampton (UK, Register of duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures).
I suspected that possibly this James Bee was his biological father because I found in National Archives a reference to "James Bee who abandoned his family" in Craven family of Brockhampton Park papers. I cannot find where I kept a copy of this reference on my desk top so that last source is from memory 
My brother had his Y-DNA tested. He was matched with a Bee man whose 6th Great Grandfather was John Bee, the brother of the James Bee who apprenticed my GG Grandfather. This was a very close match.
Is there any way to prove that James was my 3 x great grandfather.
I know it is a tough one,
LNC

Hi Mtrehy,
I still follow this forum. I am not related to the Barella's myself. I was doing some research for a friend who is.
It is a good thing you joined Roots Chat. There are so many stories about the family in here. If you follow the thread of this topic back I hope you will discover them.
I am not sure if I am allowed to paste in an URL from Ancestry or whether you need to be a member of Ancestry to access it but here goes anyway:
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/62855358/family/familyview?cfpid=100194781326
Hope this helps
LNC

Thanks Col C and BushInn for your helpful answers.
I will look into some of those avenues of research and hope that a sideways approach will turn up a clue sometime somewhere.
LNC

I thought I had my 3 x great grandfather John Randerson's parentage sorted until I found out he probably couldn't be the son of William Randerson (1785 -1845) and Elizabeth Hartley of Leeds.
I thought I had found an obscured baptism in Leeds St Peter records dated 24 February 1805 for John son of William (it looked like Randerson with a blot on it, but it could very well have been Robinson now I look at it again). I adopted this baptism as my John Randerson's even though that William Randerson had not married Elizabeth Hartley until 24 Jun 1805.
Some researchers think that my John Randerson, who lived out his life as a labourer in East Keswick and Bardsey, and who gave his birth place in census for 1851 and 1861 as Saxton and East Keswick respectively, was the one born to William and Elizabeth in Leeds in 1807. However, I have just found a burial for this John Randerson in St John the Evangelist church, Leeds, in 1829 at the age of 21.
Also there are marriages at Saxton-in-Elmet of Ellen or Eleanor Randerson to John Addinell in 1832 and Ann Randerson to Joe Simpson in 1833, but no births around 1810 in Saxton area for these women.
My great great great grandfather only had one son whom he named Joseph. Is this a clue to the name of his father?
I have found a DNA link that is quite remote to a person descended from William Randerson and Hannah Dunston from the Doncaster area. I do not know whether Randerson is where our DNA coincides so it is very hard to draw any conclusions from this.
Can anyone please help with ideas of where this ancestor of mine could have been born?