<<My Brickwall is CORRY SOMERVILLE and his descendents. He was an >>illegitimate son of our grgrandpa Corry Somerville. And there are no >>other >>Somervilles...>> In Ireland, illegitimate children were registered with the mother's surname. They could not take the father's name. I have ancestors in this situation. In Ireland they are recorded everywhere with the mother's surname of Davidson. Once they came to the United States, they "assumed" the father's surname, which was Woods. Sandra