@Guy Etchells - Exactly why I initially went with Living DNA to nail down my UK specifics and find the solution to the presumed 'brick wall'. Unfortunately even uploading to Gedmatch isn't resulting in what I hoped for.
@Mabel Bagshawe
Yes, I looked into her as well, and dismissed her for the same reasons.
Meanwhile I've been rooting around Ancestry to see if I could find my grandmother (Emily Esther Rosewell b. 1905 Shepperton) both by her maiden and married name (Haycock) in any of the electoral listings for 1926/1927. She married Jack Haycock in 1926 in Liverpool, where he originated. If she didn't join him in The Netherlands prior to Febr 1928, when she was registered by Dutch immigration services, she must have been somewhere in England.
I thought she might have stayed with Jack's parents, so I checked Liverpool. Didn't find her, but there are a *lot* of Radcliffe's there. Including one (married) Albert John Radcliffe..
Knowing I have to be careful not to grasp at straws, I can't help but think Dad's parentage may have been staring me in the face all along. The name Albert doesn't appear in either the Haycock or Rosewell side. Maybe it's not this man, but once you start encountering too many coincidences, it;s time to start testing them for factuality.
@louisa maud - He was born in Lambeth, and that's the area where Jack and Emily ended up living. However, that doesn't mean it's where he was conceived. It's basically a guessing game until I know where Emily was at around March 1927. They could have ended up moving to London to be closer to her parents, but it was still quite a distance between Sunbury (Emily's parents) and Lambeth.
