Don't know the password to my old icloud account...can someone help me please?

Okay, I have an Iphone 5s that I'm having problems with. I had a 4s and set up an apple account and Icloud account on that phone but ended up giving it to my mother and got me a new one. Well somehow my new one will not let me restore it back to its original settings. Keeps telling me I need my password to my old account and I have no idea what it could be and it will not send me a email or anything to reset it. I had the find my iphone app on it before and its saying to turn that off I have to have the old password. Guessing that somehow the new phone was synced with the itunes from my old one by the computer and now I can't get past all of it. Can anyone please help???

I have been researching this for hours and can't seem to find a fix. Beyond frustrated and upset now and know I won't be able to sleep tonight

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All I needed to do was add my old e-mail address - not as the primary but as an alias. This allowed me to delete the account on my iPhone 4S and re-sign in with the correct e-mail address.
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iTunes seems to have created an identical account
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