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Offline Ayashi

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Re: What was my Mother ? Who am I ? what am I ?
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 20 January 16 20:06 GMT (UK) »
My great grandmother was married with four children and then ran off with the lodger. She then gave birth again to my grandfather and put her second "husband" as the father. We will never confirm with DNA who the biological father of the child was and from timeline it could have been either of them, but thank goodness for the age of photography because my grandfather is the spitting image of her legal husband, hands down.

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« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 20 January 16 20:33 GMT (UK) »
Yes I too have a photograph that is as good as a DNA Test in linking a son to a father. The real father was also a god father at the christening.


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Re: What was my Mother ? Who am I ? what am I ?
« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 20 January 16 23:14 GMT (UK) »
Yes I too have a photograph that is as good as a DNA Test in linking a son to a father. The real father was also a god father at the christening.


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Thank you Blue and all you others for your assistance with this issue.
I did suspect that my mother would be considered illegitimate but was not sure about that or my status.
There are a total of 5 children involved, 1 other of them will also be illigitimate as well.
The other 3 will therefore be considered legitimate having been born of man no 1 within wedlock .
Many thanks to all.

Hickford Fleming Connah Coe Mathew