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Cyril Lewis's birth certificate came today and it mentions he was born at Prince Street, Netherton, Dudley. As I suspected, it shows his father's section to be blank. It also mentions his mother Lily's occupation was domestic servant. As there's no details on his father, it makes me wonder where Cyril's middle name Dyson came from, unless it was Lily's mother's maiden name.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, when Lily and Cyril were living in Wolverhampton in 1939, there was a Frank Lewis who lived down the road who appears to have been unrelated as I traced his family and found they originated from Willenhall (for members who don't know the Black Country Willenhall is between Wolverhampton and Walsall) and they were lock makers like so many people in Willenhall.

I wonder if Cyril might have known Frank and that could possibly have been why he used the name Frank for his imaginary father on the marriage certificate.  I was also thinking as Lily was a domestic servant, could the father have been her employer as I know this did happen

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I wonder where he was in 1921, perhaps living with relatives?

Good question yes where was he. Possibly with grandparents? 

Were Lily's parents Thomas and Hannah 

Hannah was a widow in 1901 age 43 bn Dudley living Wolverhampton

Lily's parents were Thomas and Hannah, sorry about the late reply. I wonder why they moved to Wolverhampton? Cyril and Lily were living on the western outskirts of Wolverhampton in 1939 in what was then a fairly new house

Lily Louisa is showing as a single woman in 1921 - working in service in Teddington, Middlesex

I saw this record recently and how Cyril wasn't mentioned, I wonder where he was in 1921, perhaps living with relatives? It looks even more like Frank Lewis was just invented by him for the marriage certificate

It's possible Cyril was illegitimate and made up a fathers name when he got married which wasn't unheard of.
There may not be a Frank Lewis but if you obtain the birth certificate for Cyril it will have his parent(s) on it.

In these cases middle names can often be a clue to the father so Dyson in this case. 

Also fathers weren't always noted as deceased even if they were as just their names were asked for.

To summarise the first step would be to get the birth for Cyril and see if a father is named 

Note no mothers maiden name is listed for his birth on the General Register Office birth index.

I didn't see about how no mother's maiden name is listed before, I was sure when I saw his entry his mother's maiden name was shown as Lewis, which made me wonder if he was illegitimate