*** This is a forwarded message, please reply to Paul McElroy or the list *** ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> : This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. : : Classification: Query : : Message Board URL: : : http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HhQ.2ACEB/99 : : Message Board Post: : : I am trying to trace my mother's father who is given on her birth : certificate as Alfred Cutts, a master butcher of Carshalton, Surrey. My : mother, Audrey Mary Emmett, was born in 1928 and her original birth : certificate gave Alfred as the father and my grandmother, Grace Charlotte "Cutts", as her mother. Two years later the birth certificate was amended to remove Alfred as the father and to change my grandmother's name back to her maiden name, Grace Charlotte Emmett on the basis of an affidavit sworn by my grandmother and her elder brother. : My mother and her late brother David were, in fact, both illegitimate but : apparently of the same father, presumably Alfred Cutts. It was something : that was never discussed when my grandmother, a devout Baptist, was still alive, but now my mum's beginning to get on in years she would dearly love to know anything about her father. :