Genealogy Chat

What was Edith's maiden name and what was her surname at the time David was born?

Rose

Do you know if it was a private adoption? The agency may be able to assist.
Salvation Army are good at finding living people and contacting them on your behalf.

HI everyone!

My grandmother Edith Baker was born in 1928 and died in 2000. I don't know whether David was known as Baker or given another surname upon adoption.

Around the rough time he was born, I think my grandmother was living around the Middlesex/Hertfordshire area, but I don't know if she went up north to where she was originally from to have her son.

When my mother went with my father to visit him, they took my grandmother with them, so I know that her son met her at some point in the early 90's.

I have e-mailed a Sheffield newspaper just incase he is still living in that area or someone who reads it knows where he is, apart from that, I am at a loss. :(

I would have thought you could find a birth record for that time. Then take it from there. Maybe he has already tried to find his mother through the adoption agencies. There may well be a record somewhere.

The name may have been changed by the adoptive family.

Still not sure why his name isn't known as the mother is Manda's grandmother, and presumably she knows her name?
jan

I think Manda means that her grandmother had him adopted (i.e. gave him up for adoption by someone else).

Kath. x

If your grandmother was his biological mother, why did she have to adopt him? She already is his mother.
Birth may show on here, or may be too recent:
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

When you say roughly where he lived, how roughly do you mean? having a street would help enormously.
Surely he will be registered having his birth mother's maiden name recorded? If you have his first name and her maiden name, plus a rough year and location, it might be worth a shot.
jan

I have what I think is a bit of an impossible task...

I have a half uncle, of whom I only know his first name and a rough date of birth and roughly where he lived in 1990/1991.

What could I do to try and find him? By now he should be in his late 50's early 60's.

I don't want to put too many details on here, but he was adopted out of the family by my grandmother who was his biological mother and he is living somewhere in Sheffield.

If anyone has any advice Inwou,d absolutly love it!

Thanks in advance. :)

Manda