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Any suggestions how to find my mother's place and date of birth? All I have is her name - Lois Rosalie Pullan no other details

Is Pullan her maiden or married name?

Maiden name

Can you narrow down the date a bit, eg do you know roughly how old she was when you were born?

Joselyn She must have been between 12-50ish when she had you, so can you give us a rough idea of which decade(s) she would have been born in? nell

I have absolutely no idea how old she is only that I was given away at 2 weeks old for adoption in 1954 so I have never seen or known her at all.

Do you have your ORIGINAL birth cert? or any of your adoption papers? jess

I do have a copy of the original birth certificate. It only shows her name and address at the time she was living but unfortunately the houses in that area has since been demolished!

What about your adoption file? have you seen that - it sounds not. This is what you need to get your little mitts on!! jess- who was given for adoption too - want to read our thread about adoptees here? i'll bump it for you!!

I do have my adoption papers but doesnt give much away and please give me information and advice of the adoption thread if you feel its of help to further this search

Don't you have anything relating to her and her circumstances in your file? The social workers/ adoption agency reports etc jess

I have contacted all areas - and found that it was a private adoption and I contacted the solicitors that dealt with it when it went through the courts and apparently they have destroyed my records! charming as I was 20 years too late. They only keep records for 20 years which I was not aware of but I am just wondering if the courts keep records? do you think they do.

there is a Rosalie Pullen born 1938 died 1996 croydon on ancestry could that have been her

I've found her birth Joselyn March quarter 1930 - LOIS R PULLAN - Mothers maiden name BARKER - District: WHARFEDALE - GRO ref 9a 220 That's something for you to go on, by ordering the cert you would have her exact DOB I decided to take a chance and look at the previous year for her parents marriage - BINGO! Found her parents marriage too.... September quarter 1929 SYDNEY PULLAN married LOTTIE BARKER - District: WHARFEDALE GRO ref: 9a 394 _______________________________________________ I see both of the names above are on this site! Sydney Pullan born 1900 Leeds Lottie Barker born 1896 Yorkshire. Entered by different members. I hope you have some success with this Joselyn Sam P.S I also checked for a marriage for Lois Pullan, I looked up untill the end of 1966, I found nothing

I did a search on the Death Index for 1984-2002 - this is the only Lois Rosalie born 1930 - perhaps she married a Gorton? If this is her - I'm sorry to be the bringer of bad news. Name: LOIS ROSALIE GORTON Death Registration Month/Year: Jan/85 Age: 55 Birth Date: 0 1930 District: Leeds Inferred County: West Yorkshire Volume: 5 Page: 829

I'm sorry Joselyn, that does appear to be your birth mother's death. Here is her marriage December quarter 1967 - LOIS R PULLAN married GEORGE A GORTON - District: BARTON - GRO ref:10b 536 That's so sad, and such a young age too Although Lois would have 37yrs of age when she married, I checked for children after, none within the first 2yrs, I didn't check further. Sam