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« on: Sunday 04 August 13 19:59 BST (UK) »
Hi I'm new to Rootschat and have been helping my dad with his family tree and we've done quite well with some lines but we've got stuck on my great-grandfather John Thomas Osborne. This is the information we have about him:
10/07/1893 married Ada Dalton at Dore Church, Sheffield, he said he was 23 and his father was called John Thomas Osborne, deceased, and he was a horse ostler.
1901 Census he is living at Totley, Derbyshire, he said he was 31 and born in Norfolk.
03/08/1903 he married by great-grandmother Mary Jackson at Dore Church, Sheffield (his first wife had died), he said he was 34, that his father was John Thomas Osborne, deceased, and he was a labourer.
From this information if he'd given the correct details we've deduced he was born between 11/07/1869 and 03/08/1869. I've searched births in Norfolk for a few years either side of this and not come up with anyone. I've also checked the 1891 Census and not found anyone called John Thomas Osborne or John Osborne from Norfolk at about the right age. The nearest I've found is a John Osborne who is a year older living in Hebburn, Durham with his parents and siblings. He was born in Hebburn, but his parents and older siblings were born in Norfolk and he doesn't appear in the 1901 Census in Hebburn. I've checked the death records and this John Osborne hasn't died between the two Census times, but also his father is still alive by the time of the 1st marriage.
How do I establish if he is the John Osborne I'm looking for? And if it isn't him then where do I go from here?