Scott/Adoption/1919..need help!

[Arranroots]

Hi Kathy

Usually we don't change the title of a thread after so many pages.  In fact, we usually lock them after 20 pages, unless there's an ongoing investigation.

Maybe you shoudl start a new thread, with a new title and cross refer this thread by cutting and pasting the URL into the new one?

If you decide this is what you'd like to do and need any help to set it up, don't hesitate to ask.

Kind regards, Arranroots 

[wrighk00]

I  I suppose only DNA can prove.Thank you ALL for your ideas, suggestions.  I know several of you have spent many, many hours,

[aghadowey]

Thanks you so much for sharing that with us. Although the child, Mona, never found out about her birth mother it's comforting to know she was loved by the family who raised her.

[wrighk00]

Someone kindly looked at the Electoral Rolls by address a time ago.  Is this something time consuming to do or would it be possible to see who was living at 8 Dawson Place  London W2?  perhaps in 1940 or thereabouts?
There are several very consistent addresses for Annie Dowling over the years, but then this one crept in as a possibility but we can't prove if the letter with this address was from Annie Dowling Houchin or for someone else.
If there was a way for me to check the Electoral Rolls, I would do that, but I don't know how.  Still on the learning curve.
Thanks again,
Kathy

[dawnsh]

Hi Kathy

I did the previous electoral register look-up.

I can try to check 1938 and 1946 but not during WW2 as they weren't produced then.

Dawn

[wrighk00]

That would be wonderful.  Thank you.  There is a letter signed Aunt Nan, but the handwriting is so different from the letters we have posted here from A.T. Scott..but the address is within a 5 minute walk from the one she used. 

[Janina Anna]

I have just seen this photo of Mona aged 3. To me she looks just as my mother looked when she was a little girl. My mother is Annie Dowling's daughter with Edward Houchin.
Annie Houchin did live in Dawson Place, London W.2 from 1961 or 2 until she died.
Do you have any photos of Mona as an adult?
My mother has never mentioned a half sister and my brother is not sure whether it is a good idea to tell her now. She is 86. We are still discussing what to do.
Janina

[wrighk00]

Janina,
How lovely of you to contact us.  Fern (whose mother would be your first cousin) is here visiting at the moment; returns to Ireland tomorrow.
Could you please write us at

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[wrighk00]

Janina,

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Thanks so much