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Renfrewshire / Re: Teenage runaway from 1950s
« on: Thursday 15 August 19 19:17 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your help!

She ran away in the mid-late 1950s and came to London where she met the father of her children, using his surname in day to day living but didn’t actually marry him. She stayed in London until her death in 2000.

Her birthday was Feb 1938, according to her, but we have requested birth certificates from all Mary Collins born in 1938 in Scotland and none of them match. We’ve reached a bit of a dead end in terms of researching her - all we know for sure is that she lived in Greenock / Port Glasgow until she ran away, and her name was Mary Collins...

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Renfrewshire / Teenage runaway from 1950s
« on: Thursday 15 August 19 14:55 BST (UK)  »
Our granny ran away from Greenock / Port Glasgow in the mid-late 1950s and started a new life in London. She was in her late teenage years at the time. She died 20 years ago, and we never found out much more about her past - any idea how we can go about researching this?

Her name was Mary Collins - we’ve looked on the Scotland’s People website and ordered birth certificates for all of the women with this name but none of them has a DOB that matches the one our granny told us (she may not have used the correct DOB).

Does anyone know how we can find out some more information re missing people from Scotland in the 1950s?

Thanks

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