Whoever said sorting out the family history would be easy!!! I thought you would like to try to work this one out! Sad for poor old George KYRWOOD, I feel! Excerpt taken from Ipswich Journal Saturday April 5th 1834 At the Hereford Assizes on Wed. March 26th - BOWYER v. BOWYER This was a writ of right brought by Mr F. BOWYER to recover certain lands at Dilwyn, which were in the possession of Mr T K BOWYER. Mr Sergeant LUDLOW and Mr GODSON conducted the demandant's case, Mr Sergeant TALFOURD that of the Defendant. It appeared, on the part of the defendant, that his grandfather, from whom the estate descended to him, had on the 18th February 1772, married Mary KYRWOOD and that their eldest son, who was afterwards Major of the Herefordshire Militia and the father of the defendant, was baptised in the month of September in the same year, the demandant being their youngest son. It further appeared that the eldest son had been in all respects treated as the legitimate son and heir of the family, and that the demandant had acknowledged him as such. In answer to the case, witnesses were called on the part of the demandant to prove that Mary KYRWOOD had, in the year 1762, married Mr George KYRWOOD and that, in the year 1771 he was arrested at the suit of Mr Francis BOWYER for a debt of ninety pounds for which he remained in custody, first in Hereford Gaol, and afterwards in the King's Bench prison till the time of his death which took place on 15th February 1773, which was only three days before Mr Francis BOWYER married his widow. Evidence was also given to show that an Improper Intimacy existed between Mr Francis BOWYER and Mrs KYRWOOD before the death of Mr KYRWOOD; and also that the defendant's father, although baptised in September 1773, was born in the month of June in that year. The jury found a verdict for the defendant, thereby establishing the legitimacy of his father, as the son of Mr Francis BOWYER. Diane J. (No connection to the BOWYERs of Dilwyn) Researching PRICE, Dilwyn