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My couisn and I have looked for any clues alot over the last few years but of course we had nothing much to go on and my great aunt had said he had gone to work on the docksin newcastle.
Ok. roll forward to last week and i spotted him in someones tree on ancestry but it looked odd. I messaged the person.
It is the daughter of a man born in Liverpool in 1912 who always told her that he was related to my ancestors and used to visit their farm in Todmorden as a teenager. He told her he was a cousin.
I have looked at every sibling and every spouse of that generation and the surname she has is no where connected. I am now 75% sure that her father was one of the children my great grandfather had whilst working ont he docks, her grandfather was a docker in Liverpool in 1912. It may be possible that my great aunt was told the story by her mother, who died when i was 7, but that she was told Liverpool Docks and not Newcastle and she's mixed it up.
This person from ancestry cannot find any connection on her side to the family either but there is a great aunt still living who was the younger sister of the man who said he was a cousin to my family . I am very excited to think we could be really close to solving this as it is one of those things that can't be discovered from the archives!