Highly unlikely. As my post #11 explains, my great grandfather simply didn't know who his parents were. I would dearly love to know as on the 1861 census he is shown as being 'partially deaf" at the age of 26. This deafness has been passed down the generations - my grandmother was profoundly deaf for most of her life (and she lived to be 85 years old), my mother (who lived to be 92) was very deaf, so am I, and two of my sons are now beginning to develop deafness in middle age - obviously an inherited genetic problem. So it would be nice to get further back to see where this problem is coming from. Like many Brummies, at least one of one of his parents most likely had rural origins. Alas, I shall never know.
Maurice