Thank you for the idea about the 'Monmouthshire echo' I'll give it a go. Following the life of my grandfather Thomas Wilce I found a Thomas Wilce staying with the Yates family in Tredegar (I don't think, now, that this was my Thomas Wilce) but there was a relationship between the Yates and the Wilce family from Barry, who had a son called Raymond born at about the time that my Raymond Wilce was born.

There were three Thomas Wilces, of about the same age, in the South Wales/ Monmouth/Gloucester area at the same time. In the end I gave up trying to find which was which and just followed the one with obvious and firm connection.

Robert