« Reply #7 on: Friday 09 February 18 16:03 GMT (UK) »
I expect it was quite uplifting to make contact with at least one person from the past.
I see from the website others have given you of the free birth, marriage, death site that there isn't a birth registration district for Port Talbot in West Glamorgan. Thus it must have come under the Registration District of either Swansea or Bridgend, which makes searching for a baby boy with the same surname as its mother a little easier than using the county search option.
The local Port Talbot Council offer copy birth certificates BUT the council is now known as Neath Port Talbot and there wasn't a 1971 registration district in Glamorgan for that official named council either. At the bottom of their webpage is an address for making enquries about adopted babies, In the event the baby was adopted I was wondering if it's possible to leave an introductory letter in the adoption file to be found by the adoptee if he ever decided to try to trace his birth parents.
https://www.npt.gov.uk/1324"If a birth certificate is for someone who has been adopted, then the application should be made to:
Adopted Children’s Register
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Smedley Hydro
Trafalgar Road
Southport
PR8 2HH
Tel: 0300 123 1837
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