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Haven't done any research into Japanese ancestry although both my father and his father spent time there and I've a second cousin living in Kyoto for about 50 years but using Google is very easy to search for information, photos, etc. on Wakayama. Here's one result-
https://visitwakayama.jp/en/index.html

Thanks so much!  Wow, Wakayama is beautiful!

A couple days ago with the help of DNA and others, I was able to figure out how I related to a match. 
Our trees didn’t converge, but one location did: Barnard Castle, Durham, England.  Theories went from an affair to adoption, but after digging through Durham Records Online, we figured out we were full 5th cousins!

so that makes us cousins if your great grandad and mine were brothers,  not sure what you should put on here but I live on the Wirral, England,   My story gets even more complicated,  Frances Stewardson went to Lancaster with John Henry Fraser,  don't know if she moved there with Edward and then he died,  or whether she went with john Henry,  If you know of the death record for Edward, I would be grateful,  I can see an Edward dies in Lancaster in quarter J/A/S/ 1901,   or an Edward dies November 1902 with a burial at Morland Eden District,    Frances is on the census 1901 as John's wife! which she wasn't until 1903,  and they had changed my grandads name to James H. Fraser and not his own John James Hodgson,   In 1901 she had a child to John called Thomas Harold,  a Boris in 1904, who seems to have died,  then Alice in 1907,  She had already left her's and Edward's daughter Elizabeth in Whittington Lancs with her mother Elizabeth Stewardson and never went back for her.  Then she left my grandad alone in Lancaster aged about 14,  and she went to Australia with John, Harold and Alice !   When she got there she then left everyone and completely disappeared and no-one could find her again.  I am in touch with the descendants of Harold in Australia,  So I had no family knowledge passed down to go on, only what I have been able to find out myself,  So if you know about Edward I would be grateful.

Hello Sue and Emma,
I have just read your exchange from 2016 and think this Edward Hodgson spoken of was married to a Frances Stewardson…here’s where this is a question mark in my tree.  I have tried locating bio and step relatives from my Eccles side.  I’m not sure if I have it right, but my great great grandfather was Edmund Eccles. 
He had a step brother Samuel Eccles.  From what I can tell (and it may not be correct), Samuel Eccles was married to an Elizabeth Diamond.  Elizabeth seems to have had Frances Stewardson.  Does this sound correct?