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From: "Maggie" <>
Subject: Re: [BRIT-CONNECT] BRITISH WAR BABIES (WW ll)
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:49:38 -0400
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Hi

I am wondering this as well.....
I'm assuming that a person would have more luck finding out about a 'war
baby' if they knew the mother's name......I'm in the same situation as
Wayne......my great-uncle, met a woman overseas and got her pregnant while
he was fighting in WWII.
My great-uncle, Joseph Colin Barron (b.1917 in Scotland) was a Canadian
soldier with the 48th Highlanders of Canada. He was married at the time, and
when he came back home from the war (abandoning his girlfriend and child)
I'm assuming he told his wife or she found out some other way, but they were
divorced soon afterwards (she had also been having an affair while he was
away).
I sometimes wonder about his child overseas, as this child would be my dad's
cousin. I'm assuming there's probably no way of finding out anything about
the child since I don't have the name of the mother.

Maggie Barron
Ottawa, Ontario, canada
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Hendon" <>
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Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 3:07 PM
Subject: [BRIT-CONNECT] BRITISH WAR BABIES (WW ll)


> Greetings,
>
> I am interested in finding out about a "war baby" born to an English
mother and an American soldier during WW II.
> I know the father's name, but not the mother's. Understanding the need for
privacy nowadays, I'm wondering if such information is even available?
>
> Several years ago, I read about an organization in the UK which dealt with
war babies. But, I'm having difficulty
> finding information about it.
>
> Hopefully, someone on this list can help or point me in the right
direction.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ~Wayne
>
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