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My laptop was not working properly .hence spellings .Gerald my father was born in reading .Kate Winifred his mother had separated from Issac .morris at this time .violet may would be Kate's sister along with other sisters called Joan and Louisa.two sons called ilytid spelling not sure .one was killed in Italy by the last shell as he was getting on the boat to leave .the other brother was in and out of pontadawe prison for fighting i believe pontadawe Morrison all come under Swansea my family lived in Morristown I do not know dates but they were there in the 1960s..my grandmother Kate's father was in the salvation army st Morristown where he was an officer .no name unfortunately ..but I will be getting a photograph.these threads are so interesting .I had a thought that brothers maybe used each others I.D .there were 17 children .only 13 survived infancy I learnt this when I was very young .so far Kate violet Louisa Joan iltyd and iltyd .my dad was likened to an Indian .and I have Asian blood type  b .this made me want to research dads side first .many people were illiterate and spelling May be phonetically spelt so no wonder names got mixed up especially as wales was welsh speaking at these times .I did speak welsh as a child but moved to east London as a small child where dad got his first teaching job  .yes he's Gerald not feral my bad .but saying that we ran wild in wales and have a love for tinkering and buying and selling tat .I do up old chairs etc and make wares to sell at markets .must be something in our blood .any new info on my side of the Evanses I will add .next mission is to find  the mason s and lambon family .on my mothers fathers mum side .