Thanks for your efforts Lloyd, I was under the impression that I was a Reeves and thought I had it all worked out until I received the Mcert for William and Lucy, now I have to start again, I am intouch with Lucy Birks ggrandaughter and she seems to believe that Willam was from Wales and changed his name to Reeves,I can find anything about Phillip Birks, William Rees was 52 when he married in 1922 he went on to father another at least 3 children.
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