Surname help Brighton area

[Jesper]

Good afternoon,I'm trying to do a family tree for a friend.His mother was born in Brighton in 1936 to Vera Hunt who was unmarried..her father was a local chap by the name of Wallace/Wallis Cradell/Craddle/Craddell.I've tried a multitude of different computations of his name.I assume he was born around 1915 and assume again,he was from the Brighton area...any sleuths out there who fancy a challenge?
Thanks in advance

[Treetotal]

This is the closest I could find:

Name:  Thomas Wallace N Criddle
Birth:  8 Jun 1906
Death:  Sep 1976  - Croydon, Surrey, England

Carol

[ShaunJ]

There was a Wallace Bernard Criddle born in St Leonards in 1894, died in Lewes in 1952

[Treetotal]

That was my next post Shaun but you beat me to it.....There is a tree on Ancestry..It seems he was a Solicitor's Clerk.
Carol

[lizdb]

If Vera Hunt was unmarried .... then surely she would have been born a Hunt. Wouldnt her father therefore be a Hunt? Unless she too was illegitimate, in which case what evidence is there that a 20ish yr old Wallace Craddell was her father?

[Pheno]

This is the family in 1901, living Hampstead Lane, Uckfield  (The Police Station)

 James Criddle  41 b. Stogumber?, Somerset Superintendent of Police
 Florence Annie Criddle  35  b. Sussex, Fairlight
 Daisy Orlen Criddle  15 b. Sussex, Bexhill
 Norah Ella Criddle  10 b. Newhaven
 Carlos Montague Criddle  8 b. Newhaven
 Wallace Bernard Criddle  6 b. St. Leonards
 Cyril Roderick Criddle  4 b. Uckfield
 Gerald Adelbert Criddle  2 b. Uckfield

 Class: RG13; Piece: 900; Folio: 26; Page: 7.

Pheno
 

[Jesper]

Shaun and Treetotal..thanks so much for that  ...brilliant!Liz...Vera was a Hunt with both parents...Vera fell in love with Wallace and the result was my friends' Mum! Wallace never married,as far as I can see.

[Pheno]

Yes he did according to Free BMD

Dec 1919  Paddington RD to a Lucie Y Beauboie

Pheno

[Pheno]

Just wondering if this is really the right chap as in your initial post you thought he was born around 1915 - well he seems to have been much older than that considering he was marrying in 1919 and also nothing has happened in the Brighton area as you thought.

Pheno