Hair loom: Cambridgeshire man ancestral locks found

In the second paper bag, Mr. Baxter found a much darker, thicker “ponytail” – remarkably similar to the one he had worn several years ago.

“It was retweeted that it was the castle from my great-grandmother, Emma Marie Walton.”

She was born in 1877 and died in 1910 and also lived in Whittlesey.

Baxter said: “We were told that around 1908 she got a job as a nanny in Montague Street, Bloomsbury.”

He was told that his great-grandmother’s photo was taken around the time she got a job in London because the position required her to have shorter hair. The ponytail was then cut off.