Hi Robert, I hope your email is not a joke!! What is his Name ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Price" <rprice84043@yahoo.com> To: <POWYS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 3:58 PM Subject: [POWYS] illegitimate births Hello All, A cold greeting from the USA. My great grandfather was born 1858-1859 out of wedlock around Llangammarch Wells. From his own account I have his birth date and the name of his mother (Elizabeth Price...not many of those in the area!!). There is not a birth registered in either the Builth or Brecknock district for the birth date he says he was born on. He was living with his father and grandparents on the 1861 census in Merthyr Cynog. I have searched the census records up and down for his mother and have a few possibilities. I have read that if a child was born out of wedlock the father could be brought before a magistrate by the mother to swear that he was or not the father? Finding the mother of my great grandfather has been my greatest brickwall. Can anyone out there give me any suggestions of any other records that might exist?? Thank You Robert Price =================== Visit the Powys Mailing List webpage at: www.jlb2011.co.uk/powyslist.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to POWYS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message