Adoption

When my Mother became pregant with me during the war, she had to leave her Lancashire home as she wasn't married. She had heard a friend talk about Cambridge and decided to go there. After my birth, I was taken to an adoption home in London, which operated throughout the UK, but coincidentally I was adopted by a family fifteen miles from Cambridge. I became a T when I married, my Mother-in-law was Lilian Grace Thompson, and in 1972 when I was able to get an original birth certificate, discovered that my birth Mother was Grace Evelyn T! In the 80's I was given my file by the adoption home, and discovered that my Mother had gone to America as a GI bride, becoming Grace C (an unusal name). Later that year, I told a friend who was visiting from the States that if she ever met a Grace C to let me know, it could be my Mother! Her sons had just been given a computer, so she set them a task of searching the internet. They came up with one G. C, whose name and address she sent to me, coincidentally on my birthday! I wrote a cautious letter, and received a reply from Grace B, to say she had been looking for me with the help of her daughter-in-law, Gillian C, who was married to my half brother John. My adopted siblings are John and Gillian! Two months later we were all reunited.