I am new to this list and wonder if anyone knows anything about the name Boughton My great great grandfather, John Boughton, was born 23 December 1814 in Droitwich. He was the illegitimate son of Sarah Boughton. I have no idea who his father was and that is all the information I have on his mother. I found out about him being illegitmate from his christening record found from my local family history center. John went to work in the carpet weaving field when he was only eleven year old in Kidderminster where he met and married his first wife, Louisa Hunt, in Kidderminster. I have found him in the 1851 census. From that point on the family moved to Halifax in Yorkshire. I have much information from that point on but I have little info from the early years. Is there any way to find a birth certificate or to find out anything about his mother, grandparents etc.? And is there anyone out there who might be looking for the name Boughton? Thanks, Suzanne Boughton