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How can I find my father?
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Bernard | Report | 3 Sep 2008 15:00 |
Hya, can any one help please I was born in a Catholic home for unmarried mothers in Leeds October 1951my mothers name was Bridie Moss. late in 1951 my mother and I were taken by a man my mother told Catholic care was my father, his name was Bernard Lemon I think. He took us to North Newton near Bridgwater in Somerset. |
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Eileen | Report | 3 Sep 2008 15:40 |
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Bernard | Report | 3 Sep 2008 15:58 |
Hi Eileen thanks very much for your advice, I know he was living in a hostel for European Voluntry workers. These hostels were set up after the war to house non UK citizens who came here, one for work and to help rebuild the country. My mother was an Irish citizen and also lived in an EVW hostel in Coventry, sit is unlikely he would have been British. I am sure there must be records for migrant workers, but it's knowing how to access them. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 3 Sep 2008 17:37 |
do you have any idea of how old he was/ |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 3 Sep 2008 17:46 |
there's a Charles B Lemon reg in dec qtr1923 ,Shardlow which is Derbyshire. so may be the one found and the christian names turned around. |
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Bernard | Report | 3 Sep 2008 18:02 |
Hi Shirley, can't stop now have to go to choir practice and bell ringing tonight !!:) Thanks for your help. I know mum was 20 in 1951so would imagine he would have been about same age but realy don't know. Speak again soon. |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 3 Sep 2008 20:41 |
I wouldn't necessarily discount that one. Even though he was living in the Hostel he could have been a member of staff there. |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 3 Sep 2008 20:50 |
Can't imagine that someone wouuld have volunteered to help rebuild England. Could he not have been a german immigrant (from prior to the war) who had been put in an internment camp |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 3 Sep 2008 21:02 |
There was a POW camp at Bridgewater its mentioned here |
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Bernard | Report | 4 Sep 2008 09:10 |
Hya Janet, thanks so much for your help!!!! you have given me some food for thought. I got the name Bernard Lemon from records obtained from Somerset childrens dept social services, it is quite possible there was an attempt to anglasise? his name as a German name would have been unpopular just after the war. I will have a look at POW link. |