Good morning all. My first direct enquiry although I've looked and listened with interest over the years. My research has taken in the Forest of Dean, most of south Wales and into the west country mainly Somerset, together with a little bit of Australia. Background. I've been very lucky to trace some lines as far back as the late 1500s. Right now I'm stuck at gt grandfather x 3 William BRIGHT who according to a Carmarthenshire census was born in 1790 but we know not where at the moment. All I have is that John Bright, my gt x 2 grandfather, was born in the Forest of Dean at Westbury and was the first born to William and Sarah BRIGHT in 1812/13. The whole family moved into south Wales and William and Sarah eventually settled and died in Carmarthenshire - William in Carmarthen and Sarah in Kidwelly with quite a few Bright's around her. There are a few clues which suggest that there might well be a connection with the Hartlebury and Ombersley/Kidderminster/Droitwich areas of Worcestershire. Clue 1 is that John and Miriam Bright moved away from Glamorganshire in the mid 1840s probably driven away by the loss of their first two children to Cholera or something similar. They went to Hartlebury where Sarah my gt grandmother was born in 1850. The family eventually settled in Kidwelly. Clue 2 is that Sarah Luisa Bright married Benjamin Southall in 1871 in Kidwelly and after some wanderings in the Black country and north Warwickshire, eventually settled back in Worcester in Bridge Street, Stourport as confectioners. Clue 3 is that Mary Louis Southall, my grandmother, following teacher training in Warwickshire, returned to marry in the same area at Upper Mitton Baptist Chapel in 1906. Something seems to have drawn all of them back to the Droitwich area of Worcestershire and I wonder if this is where William Bright and his family had their roots.. The other clue I have comes from family search.org where they have on record a William Bright, christened 25 December 1790, Kiddermister, Worcester to parents - another William Bright and Sarah. He would fit the bill nicely if we could make the connection. If anyone is able to help me expand on that last clue, or can offer any other suggestions, I would be very grateful. Happy hunting. David Morris Ret'd Surrey.