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I have applied for the Probate record but do not have it yet.  I have always been told by My Mother and other family members that he did leave a Will but of course this is all hearsay.  My two Uncles were appointed as Executors according the to the brief description on the Probate Registry Site.  I will look at the wording on the Probate when I get it.  Thank you for your help.

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Cathy

H All,

Thank you for the suggestion about an Uncle being in the forces Maiden Stone, I had not thought of that.  He only had one Uncle on his maternal side, I will look into that.  Also on the birth certificate he was born in the Sussex Maternity Hospital, so I think the addresses where his mother was living were probably rented housing.

Many thanks to all for your hep.

Cathy

Hi Maiden Stone,

Thank you for your suggestion of a private maternity home, I had not thought of that.  The address given on the 1939 register was a different address and that too was made up of individuals and again no head of house hold.  Both addresses were in Brighton itself.  The lady in question came from Bilston so my assumption was that she had moved to Brighton for a job as she was a cook, or she had moved to Brighton when she had found she was pregnant. 

Cathy

Thank you Pauline J and CaroleW for your replies.

The 1939 register lists her in her maiden name but she must have been pregnant at the time.  She was in domestic service and Brighton was not her home town.  She had her little boy in 1940 and the father was not named on the certificate.  Sometime later when the little boy was about 3 to 4 he remembers leaving the house of an elderly couple to go and live with his mother (who he was told was his Aunt, and another maiden Aunt).  We are wondering if the elderly couple were the parents of his father, he remembers them being very distressed when he was taken away.  The address given on his birth certificate is not the same one shown on the 1939 register.

He can also remember when very young a picture of a man in uniform and his Aunt (who he now knows was his mother but only found that out in the last couple of years and he is now 80)

There is no amendment to his mother's name in the 1939 register.  I have searched but cannot find a marriage.  As there are no electoral rolls that leaves whether if he was Christened whether his father's name may have been entered into the register even though his parents were not married.

Cathy