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Old 03-11-19, 17:38
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Thanks Phoenix. I haven't gone back any further because I'd be getting too far away for the DNA match. No spare brothers though, as I thought.

I can't think of a reason John Henry and Kathleen would have taken on Henry Vincent other than him being the child of a close relation or John Henry being Samuel with an alias.

I wondered what proof the army would want with regard to the details of wife (or in this case, his dependent common law wife) and dependent children? Surely they can't have accepted whatever they were told or every soldier would have a list of children as long as your arm so any pension payment might be larger. So, I suppose he couldn't say Henry Vincent was his dependent if it was going to open some can of worms John Henry didn't want opening.
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