Family

I didn't know at that time that I had anybody. A lady called Mary Mason, she was a nurse in St Lawrence's hospital, she helped me find my auntie - Aunt Edie. Then I went visiting her. She was still alive when I started to tell my story, and I used to go and see her sometimes. She has died now.

I've got five cousins as well which I searched for when my auntie was taken ill. Aunt Edie gave me the numbers for them. One lives in Zimbabwe, in South Africa, one lives in Croydon and the others all live in Bedford. I go and visit them from time to time.

It was a long time ago when I found my auntie. I was in the hospital then. She told me my mother had died. She was my auntie's sister. I don't know my father. My auntie doesn't know him. She said they were married.

My Gran lived in Croydon. My auntie moved and went to Bedford. My mother lived outside Bedford.

Childhood