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I have a great grandfather who suddenly landed on the planet in Northumberland in the 1891 census aged somewhere in his 40s and claiming to be from Oldham, Lancs. We grew up being told he had been Cornish. He subsequently fibbed about his age, giving me a 12 year range to play with. On his marriage certificates he named a father. Years of searching with that combination of info revealed nothing. I then moved on to assuming that the father was a work of fiction and that his surname was from his mother. Still nothing. Now I am gradually narrowing in towards who he may have been using DNA. Completely different surname. If my current theory about his identity proves to be correct then the info that would have been true on the documents he produced in Northumberland are his birthplace, his own first name and his father’s first name.
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