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I am trying to identify the correct John Sheldon through the census records. I have full access to Ancestry and findmypast having difficulty identifying a common thread.
The problem starts with George Sheldon my GG Grandfather who I can accurately trace back to the 1871 census lodging with John Thomas Green and family in Thornaby. George's marriage certificate from 1873 indicates his father as John Sheldon, watchmaker.
George is shown as born in Birmingham but there are no John and George Sheldons living together from Birmingham prior to 1871.
But there is a John Sheldon, painter lodging with a William Green, watch hand maker in Birmingham in 1861. Is it just coincidence that this John Sheldon (possible a watch face painter?) is living with someone called Green and his "son" George is living with someone called Green?
Probably too many assumptions but any help in untying the tangled knot would be appreciated.