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I tried attaching Flo's Will but too large. So here are the details   -
When / Where born :   8th October 1912  11 Long Street, Aston
Elsie May
Mother :   Flora Leighton, Laundry ironer of 11 Long Street, Aston (also informant)
Registered :  19th November

So long time between birth and registration.
I did wonder if 11 Long Street might have been an unmarried  mother's home, but never found any information on that.
I don't know what help it would be to find Flo on 1911 census because that was taken April 1911 and Flo wasn't pregnant until around Feb / March 1912.  Though of course one wants to find family being researched on every appropriate census  !
Though I might try the FindMyPast website which is available at the library, see if that can offer anything.

Yes I am very tenacious !    I had forgotten about that entry on Roots.   Saves me going through my pile of papers.   I do not have membership of A at the moment, but when I do, if I put Long Street into search will I be able to trawl through ?   It's having access to the 1921 census has started me searching again.

Thank you for the info on Star Inn - no Flo Layton there then.

Can anyone find my grandmother Flora sometimes Flo Layton sometimes spelt Leighteon born 1889 in Malvern Link, Worcestershire.   The only census I cannot find her on and I wonder if she was a supporter of Suffragette Movement, as I have read they refused to be entered onto a Government census report in 1911.  It is particularly significant  (to me) as my mother was born in 1912 - no known father - and it would be interesting to know where Flo was the year before.  Not as the miracle will happen of course, and I can identify her father / my grandfather !  Thanks for any help / ideas.

Of course we know our ancestors deceived and lied at times  - which has certainly been the case with this Aston / Twist family.   When William Aston married in 1868 on the marriage certificate he put his father as William Aston, Gun maker.  That was researched (for years) on 1841census  (and others) looking for a William Aston of possible age who was a gun maker in Birmingham, but never managed to determine if this was true. Of course as William Aston born abt 1839 he was researched for years, then discovered he had been Twist at one time, so that family researched as his family, until the Will of Joseph Twist confirmed he (and John) were not his children.     But if Emma is shown as MMM on birth records as Aston I can only presume that was her birth surname and not that of a husband.   So where would this William Aston, gun maker as father fit in !   
Of course what I really want to find is an Emma with a John and William of right age, or at least a William Aston with grandchildren John and William !