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25 clues waiting for someone to recognise them. Connected people counts recorded tree links, including labelled family recollections; it does not imply that every relationship is independently confirmed. Source totals count distinct references, and clue totals count records, not unique people.
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Explore the existing research notebookA separate piece of the puzzle. No line joins this cluster to Adebayo’s tree. The relationships described in the source still need family confirmation.
Nigeria
An academic acknowledgement names late Engineer Adeleke Okelarin and Mrs Foluke Okelarin as parents and names siblings including Abiola Lawrence Okelarin, Afolashade Oriyomi Okelarin, Kayode Emmanuel Okelarin and Abosede Okelarin.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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Kent, United Kingdom
A Charity Commission filing for Kent Foursquare Gospel Church lists Mr Adebayo Olusoji Okelarin among the trustees for the year ending September 2021.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
Read the public source · official charity record
Nigeria
An ICAN document dated 2020 contains the exact names OKELARIN, ADEBAYO Olusoji and OKELARIN, THERESA Olubajo. The document should be interpreted cautiously and not used to infer more than the list itself establishes.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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United Kingdom / Nigeria
Public art sources describe Ade 'Àsìkò' Okelarin as a UK-based Nigerian conceptual artist working in photography, mixed media and film, with themes including Yoruba identity, culture and heritage.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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England, United Kingdom
Companies House records an Adebola Okelarin as a director of ASIKO STUDIO LTD, with an earlier Ade Okelarin directorship. This is a public corporate record, but identity and family placement still need family confirmation.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
Read the public source · official company record
New Zealand / Nigeria
Public academic/professional profiles describe Samson Okelarin as an education professional and researcher. One published study focuses on secondary-school students in Ijebu-Ode.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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Lagos, Nigeria
A public professional profile describes a Bukola Okelarin as a quantity surveyor/project professional in Lagos and a member of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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Lagos, Nigeria
A public professional profile describes Kenneth Okelarin as working in finance in Lagos and records education at the University of Ilorin.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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Lagos, Nigeria
A public professional profile places an Ayodeji Okelarin in Lagos and describes university training and environmental-sector experience.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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Nigeria
A public professional profile places Okelarin Temitope in Nigeria, with education at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology and work/volunteer activity in Oyo and Ogun states.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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Edmonton, Canada
A public professional profile places a Kayode Okelarin in Edmonton, Canada, in business/mental-health related professional work.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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Texas, United States
A public professional profile identifies an Ayomide Okelarin, Psy.D., in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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Nigeria
A public professional profile describes Kingsley Okelarin as a Nigerian web developer and records study at Yaba College of Technology.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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Ibadan, Nigeria
A public professional profile places a Bisola Okelarin in Ibadan.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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Lagos, Nigeria
A Lagos State programme report lists Babatunde Okelarin among contributors to the Saving One Million Lives programme implementation and closure report.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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Imota
A 2020 youth council report names Olugbenga in Imota. Could family knowledge help place this public clue?
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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Imota
A 2026 report names Gbenga in an Imota community role. Whether this is the same person as the earlier Olugbenga clue needs confirmation.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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Nigeria / New Zealand
A public source offers a name to investigate. Family connection remains unknown.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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Nigeria
A public professional profile offers a data/computing clue. Similar names do not establish identity.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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United Kingdom
A public research profile provides an academic clue in the United Kingdom.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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Lagos, Nigeria
A JICA attendance record names a Lagos public-health professional. No connection to Babatunde or the known family is established.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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United Kingdom
A patent index renders an applicant name as ADEDAYOK. Whether this belongs to the known family is unknown.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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Ijebu
YorubaNames analyses the name as òkè-ni-àárín, approximately 'the hill is in the middle / centre of attention', and associates the name with Ijebu.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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Imota, Lagos State, Nigeria
A Methodist history of Imota names an Okelarin, also called Biolowotan, among the nucleus of the congregation formed between 1890 and 1897.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
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Imota, Lagos State, Nigeria
A Nigerian Supreme Court judgment records J. K. Okelarin as having been appointed Olisa of Imota on 7 June 1978. The relationship to Adebayo's branch is not known.
Family connection: UNKNOWN
Read the public source · public primary legal
Okelarin sightings, at city, region or country level. These are places mentioned in sources, not established origins or migration routes.
Okelarin, also called Biolowotan
I know a story from hereAdebola Okelarin / Ade Okelarin
I know a story from hereNo questions have been marked solved yet. Our first shared breakthrough belongs here when the evidence is reviewed.
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