ICloud e-mail address

Hello everyone,
some time ago I created an iCloud e-mail address when iCloud was released but never was used. Recently I created another e-mail address because I could not use the previous one as I received a message saying that the first email address is being used. I would like you to tell me if you know how can I reach Apple support in order to verify that that email address belongs to my Apple ID in order to recover that email address.
Thank you very much for your assistance.
Kind regards.

When you created your first iCloud account and set up an @icloud.com address you would have used an Apple ID to do it, usually consisting of a non-Apple email address.
You appear to have created a new, separate, iCloud account. You cannot transfer the original email address to it; it remains permanently tied to the original account and you can access it only by signing into the original account.
If you have forgotten the ID you used to create that account go to http://appleid.apple.com and click 'Find your Apple ID'.
If you know the ID but have forgotten the password go to http://iforgot.apple.com
If you know both you can add the account, in addition to the newer one, in System Preferences (or Settings)>Mail, Contacts and Calendars so that it will appear in Mail alongside the present one.

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