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Joe Biden's presence in the UK this week brings him closer to a part of his family heritage that had been obscure - until recently. Last year an English link was added to Mr Biden's well-known Irish ancestry. But is it meaningful to him? A census listed him as a resident of Maryland, one of about 10 million people then living in the US. He was part of a growing community of immigrants who, in many cases, were lured to the country by the promise of a better life.

If they stretched far enough, a piece of the American dream was within their grasp. Some years later, another man by the name of Biden would chase that dream to dizzying heights. When Joseph Robinette Biden Jr, 78, won the presidential election last year, his victory was celebrated in the Republic of Ireland, one of his ancestral lands. Meanwhile, the reaction was muted in Westbourne, a quaint village in West Sussex, England.

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There were no scenes of jubilation here, even though researchers had recently confirmed the village was once home to the president's third great-grandfather - the William Biden from the records of President Biden's English heritage has long been the source of debate and misdirection. One prominent claim pointed to another William Biden, who was from Houghton, Cambridgeshire and served as a naval officer for the East India Company.

In , during a trip to India, Mr Biden said he was made aware of a "great, great, great, something or other" who "worked for the East India Trading Company". Unlike this William Biden, the one from Westbourne can be followed "across to Maryland and through the ascendancy to Joe", Eddy Greenfield, a local historian from Sussex, said.

Mr Greenfield said he began investigating the president's family tree after stumbling across an intriguing reference to an A Biden in Westbourne. Compelled by his fascination with American history, he pored through records of baptisms, marriages, and burials in the local council's archives.