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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Kent => Topic started by: RSnelling on Tuesday 14 June 16 20:51 BST (UK)
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I am looking for a woman that was going out with one of my Selwood Relations. She wrote him a letter during the end of the WW2 to him stating that she was pregnant. Unfortunately he never received the letter as he was kilked in action before the letter arrived at his home in Battersea,London. The woman and her mother vistted the house but i do not think that they got a very good welcome. The woman lived in Dover. I would like to find her or her children if possible.
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You can use freebmd to see if the woman has married and has any children. It should also be possible to see if she is still alive from this information. You can't post the name of an individual who is alive on here. Findmypast has electrol rolls up to 2013 for most areas and you may be able to use this information along with the 1939 index to gleam more information. If you are still stuck please send me a PM with all the information you have and I will have a look for you.
Regards panda
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I have no idea who the woman is but I think she may have been around 18 - 20 years old at the time.
I have a list of approx 300 names of women that had children during the war that were not married at the time in the Dover area.
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............ and that's if she gave birth in the Dover area. She may have been sent away to have her baby.
You are looking for a needle in a haystack, I'm afraid.
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Hi,
How do you what you do? Is this just oral history within the family or do you have some evidence, such as the letter? Without something tangible, as Bearkat says, you stand little or no chance.
Peter
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There is a letter but it is not in the Families possession and probably never will be. But I have a couple of Great Aunts that confirm that there was a letter and that the girl and her mother visited the House in Battersea, London when they had not heard from Paul. I know this is a long shot but was hoping that someone in the Dover area might be able to help even if it is just a little bit.
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...and the Great Aunts cant remember her name?
Without a name, this is a lost cause.
Might even be one with it.
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Reading between the lines you seem to know where the letter is. Is there no way of getting a copy or a photograph of it?
Peter
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Since knowing about the woman that was pregnant with Paul's child and finding out about the letter, I have tried to get a copy of it without much success. Even my oldest Great Aunt that knows more about the family is not going to give that secret away.
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Sometimes illegitimate children were given their father's name as a middle name.
I have checked birth registrations for about that time without success.
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If the family are not going to co-operate then I think you are on a loser.
Peter
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I am not one to give up that easily. I have worked on this for a long time now just for it to end. I knew when I posted it I might have been trying to find a needle in a haystack.
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But with no name to work on, I don't know how you are even going to get started!
Allegedly a woman said she was pregnant approx. 1945/46.
We don't know her name
We don't know if she had the baby
If so we don't know if the baby lived
We don't know where the baby was born, or when.
Or the baby's sex or name.
Even if she had had the baby, and it had lived, there will be no record of its father (if he wasn't married to the mother and had died, he could not have been there to register it) so there will be no way of knowing you have found the right child even if by some means you did happen upon it!
Sorry, but just how are you hoping this will be resolved?
The only way I can see to move it on at all, is for you to have access to the letter, and see the name of the woman, and hopefully a date it was written and hopefully she put her address at the top for a reply!