Hi everyone, This is my first posting to this list and I was wondering whether anyone out there would be able to help. I am at a total dead end at the moment. I am looking for my father in laws father OWEN MANNIX. He is named on my fil's birth certificate which also states that he was married to his mother (I know that they weren't). I have been to FRC and can find no trace of Owen at all. No births after 1900 and no marriages to anyone, in fact no OWEN Mannix's anywhere! Would SKS be able to look at some Irish records for me to establish whether an Owen Mannix existed at all as I am starting to wonder whether it was a false name. I have been told that he was already married when he became involved with my fil's mother (London 1926) and an email I read yesterday was talking about some men that moved away from their families, changed their names and started afresh in another town. I wonder if this could be the case. I hope that this all makes sense. If anyone can find Owen that would be marvellous, if not if anyone knows of someone that just upped and disappeared in the 1920's then you never know! TIA Regards Caroline Researching: ALDRIDGE, ROSE, JEWSON, WATERS, WORSFOLD, BOXALL, CHEESEMAN, UZZELL - Surrey MANNIX - London/Ireland? FIELD - Herts/London? RANDALL - London/Wiltshire? LAST - Essex/London ALLAM - Herts/Surrey WILLDER - Kent