re.= my mum was given her 'real' fathers name as a middle name, she never knew him and to me it seems pointless. It is no good for those of us doing our family tree, there is no way you can contact a family whose deceased relative fits the bill and ask for information about them, so you're stuck. My Father James Leslie Armstrong Davis was illegitimate the only son of Matilda Davis born 1914 in Gateshead and a orphan at 2 1/2 years old, By going to where he lived and talking to the neibours I was able to find = his farther Leslie Armstrong was away fighting for the duration of the 1st w war he married 10 years later and raised 4 children, do not give up I have only found one person that did not wish to contact me in 20 years of family history the rest were over joyed and still in contact Howard Davis in Rutland