In a message dated 6/23/06 5:13:11 PM Central Daylight Time, mbriscoe@zetnet.co.uk writes: I can't see a Edwin Brady born between 1861 (when Alfred was single) and 1864. Did he refer to the son as "Edwin Brady" or just "Edwin" i.e. could it be an illegitimate son? In settling Alford's estate in Texas he signed his name Edwin Brady. He may have been illegitimate but he took his father's name, Brady. I have a copy of a letter he wrote to a cousin in Texas and he was living in Merseyside. I will look at it again. It was in the early 1900s. Nan