<strong>By Ian Bred, Norfolk Correspondent

American President Donald Trump's ancestors were Norfolk farmers with an incredible modern-day link to the Queen, we can reveal today.</strong>

We traced his family tree going back many generations, and discovered his ancestors eeked out a living on farmland that is now part of Her Majesty's sprawling Sandringham Estate.

Our special investigation featured weeks of sifting through thousands of documents and old photographs at the Norfolk Central Records Office, which unearthed the extraordinary Trump heritage in the village of West Newton, just south of Sandringham.


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Mr Trump's great, great, grandfather Archibald "Archie" Trump bought eight acres of land, and he toiled for more than 50 years with the help of his sons Abraham and Henry, before he died in 1879, aged 68.

The family endured many hardships, and young Henry - who was Donald Trump's great grandfather - even featured in an early edition of the Eastern Daily Press newspaper, posing for the camera as part of a feature about rearing geese.

<center><a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/trump-boy.jpg"><img src="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/trump-boy.jpg" alt="henry trump norfolk" width="560" height="619" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6030" /></a><i>Take a gander: Henry Trump, the President's great grandfather, pictured as a young man</center>,</i><br><br>

Henry displays many of the distinctive Trump features as a young boy, but as he grew older he bore an uncanny resemblance to Donald Trump. We discovered another photo of Henry, believed to be taken in 1880, just after his father's death.

He would have been around 35 years old at this point, and the photograph shows he was still working the land, as he poses proudly with a hay fork.

<center><a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/donald-trump-great-grandfather.jpg"><img src="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/donald-trump-great-grandfather.jpg" alt="Henry Trump in Norfolk" width="400" height="561" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6031" /></a><i>Top trumps: Henry as an older man was the spitting image of Donald</i></center><br><br>

Henry had one son - Donald Trump's grandfather, Isaac - who moved to the remote Isle of Lewis in Scotland when the family sold their land to the Sandringham Estate, which had been the country retreat of British monarchs since 1868.

It seems extraordinary now that one of the Trump family's first business ventures, a smallholding in Norfolk, was sold to the British Royal Family.

The rest of the Trump family history is more commonly known. Isaac raised three daughters on the Isle of Lewis, one of whom was the President's mother, Mary Anne, who moved to America in 1930 to work as a house servant.


