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Bear with me on this one as I'm dealing with 2 countries I know little about .

I'm trying to work out  connection between

1 Willie Johnson
b 1911 Androas Island Nassau Bahamas
He changed his surname to LIGHTBOURN after arrival in Miami Florida USA  1916

2) merchant seaman Jacob JOHNSON b 1887 Sierra Leone d 1954 Wales
Father named on marriage  Joseph Johnson ship chandler deceased before 1926

There is a distant  DNA match and there are many connections to Ghana

Including surnames of lodger in Wales top DNA matches with African ethnicities
& Some surnames from trees
 which are typically Ghanaian

Have some possible relatives to add to Willie's tree who also came from Nassau Bahamas + lived nearby on 1935 + 1940
Census

Including Thomas L JOHNSON b 1879 a gardener who gives mother's name as Sarah  back  in Bahamas on arrival in  USA

Any theories about era s the Ghanaian s might have moved to Sierra Leone or Bahamas would be appreciated

The link to Ghana is probably from 1850 s

Has anyone who has long Cornish Ancestry tested on ancestry ?

What does your ethnicity state
My friends father was from Cornwall and tne paternal line has been trace back to. 1700s
His results  27,%english +north European  ancestry breaks down his community as specifically from Devon and Cornwall
Sub division of kerrier Cornwall+eas Cornwall
Just From his father's side he has inherited
24 % Scottish  8%irish +2%swedish

27 march 1875
William Binglow a.23year old earth extractor father (George Binglow railway labourer ) deceased
married
Elizabeth Ann JANE 22yr old  machine wool comber
Father John JANE tin miner

In Parish church of Bradford
I think their respective addresses are
 Clayton Heights Claughton
+ Sandbeds Claughton

Their witnesses were Frederick Christmas + Elizabeth Kendell all 4 left their marks

17 Feb 1876 their daughter Mary Jane Binglow was born in Queensberry Yorkshire

In 1881 Elizabeth Ann JANE returned to Cornwall and is living with her father and Mary
Jane JANE  (not using Binglow surname )

3 more Binglow children are born in Cornwall before 1891

She is then listed as married with all 4 Bingalow children and her father

By 1901 she is head of household still in Cornwall listed as widow with William.H 19 John A 16 + Sidonia L Binglow 11

But where was their father all this time .?
Every time I search I get BINGLEY suggestions

I'm feeling flushed having been able to not only  identify my friends African grandfather but also trace descendants of some of his children and Reunite cousins who'd lost contact or never known each other .

Rootschatters on boards and in chatrooms have helped in ways they may consider small but gave vital  clues or advice

I'm very slow at looking for BMD and it's delicate when living people are concerned
The children were born between 1927and 1947
3 are known deceased

Help with handwriting on a clip of 1939 register led to finding mothers remarriage
And eldest daughters married name DAVIES
A 1 month old baby Davies Is buried with his grandfather our mystery man

Burial also has a middle initial J which helped distinguish him from all the other Jacob JOHNSON s in Wales and on ships

Still more to discover.

This kind of success story would not be possible without help from you lovely lot

Can anyone decipher Violet JOHNSON s lodgers name after the redacted lines

I don't understand all the crossings out or which is supposed to be the first name .
It could be a Ghanaian name . Clerk

Can't find anyone of similar name elsewhere

Violet  married Milovan Bogidovic
+ Her daughter rose married Davies



But there seem to be a lot of crossings out  and annotations for all of them