Just letting all you wonderful helpers know that i have made a major discovery:
received by snail mail:-
copy of grandfather Bensch's
birth certificate*registered in
Altbeerlitz by
Albert Frensch and his wife Auguste nee Bensch*birth of
Otto Wilhelm Bensch to
Mathilde Bensch, unmarried, who was the daughter of the
deceased Robert Bensch*all residing in Langs Theerofen
the child was born in the home of Auguste and Albert -looks like they all lived together - no mention of a father, though.
* a new generation for me; new sibling i think for Mathilde;

best thing eh;)