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Originally posted by Robin Harritt
When you are doing this sort of thing, don't "assume" anything, get the birth certificates.
Robin
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Thank you for being so helpful.
Unfortunately, we have no birth certificates. My grandmother died over 20 years ago and took the secret to her grave. We found out because my grandmothers sister-in-law, who is very ill, decided to tell her own daughter as she didn't want to die with the secret. The sister-in-law was originally meant to adopt one of the twins but she then found out that the twins were a result of an affair so refused as she didn't want to be disloyal to her brother. Nothing was ever heard again, apart from the fact that they were given up for adoption outside of the family.
Like I say, all we know is that Ruth gave birth to twins, a boy & girl, and went to her sisters house in Maida Vale for support. We have the sisters address of that time but do not know if it was a home birth or not. With such little information and no birth certificates, do you think we will ever find them? I don't live in the UK anymore, but would it be worth flying over and trawling through the record books for births in 1946 and hopefully coming up with a match?
Again, thank you so much for your help as I really need it.
Lemon
