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With the help and advice from the responses to my post, followed up with sheer determination and luck, we found my half sibling! The Port Talbot Old and New FB page and asking the correct people the correct questions was what led me to find the mother of the child and then also the child. We have not contacted them yet. I would never have found this FB page without the suggestion in this chat, so please accept my thanks!

I see Facebook has a couple of "Port Talbot Old and New" websites where members exchange memories and news.  Have you thought about submitting a post asking if anyone knows your Miss X or her family?   

Now that I've visited the pages and used the member search facility, I'm musing whether to join a similar Welsh group and ask if anyone is researching their family tree and has come across a McCarthy marrying a Thomas 

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=port%20talbot%20old%20and%20new

Thanks for this! From the FB page, we have found the son of the man who my father was travelling with when he worked in Wales/England!

Hello,

I've recently found out that I may have a half sibling born in Port Talbot, Wales in 1971. My father was a 22 yo 'Long Distance Worker' from Ireland and only stayed in one place long enough to finish a job. He was in Port Talbot working on the building of the Llandarcy cooling towers when he met the mother of my possible half sibling. They were no longer seeing each other when she found out she was pregnant and he had moved on to another job in Gloucester when she told him. I'm sorry to say that he did not do the responsible thing and so that is the last he knows of the child. She was around 4-5 months when she told him and based on his memory, it would place the child's birth in Spring of 1971.

I have a name for the woman but it is a very popular name in Wales, first and last, so search results are in the hundreds. My father thinks that she had 2+ sisters and 2+ brothers and was possibly the oldest- he is unsure if there were more children in the family and he does not recall any of their names, nor does he recall the parent's names. She had ginger hair and the lads on the site called her 'Ginger' (not her name). He seems to remember that she was older than him by a year or two which would place her birth year between 1945 and 1947 and she was local to the area. They would spend their nights in the pubs near the beach and their relationship lasted approximately 3 months in 1970.

This is all the information I have at the moment. Can anyone give me an idea of where to start looking for the mother and child?
We have thought to look for the other lads who worked on the site but most of the ones my father remembers were also long distance workers and so it would be questionable whether they were around Port Talbot long enough to know what happened.

Any help is much appreciated.
Thank you.