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From: "Chris Townsend" <>
Subject: Re: [SRY] Adoption - Wandsworth Annie Amelia Cockerell
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:20:51 -0000
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A first thought: Cleaver is likely to be a mis-reading of Clewer. Try
searching for Convent of St. John the Baptist Clewer. Lots of info
available.

Best wishes,

Chris Townsend

>I am new to the list and am hoping someone can help with my enquiry.
>
> I have an ancestor who had an illegitimate baby in 1912. I have come
> across
> a letter in the National Archives dated 1926 which stated the child was
> given for adoption to a lady in 1921 and the child's mother had been in
> care
> at the Convent of St. John the Baptist Cleaver for the past 10 years and
> was
> still with them. This was a letter to the Wandsworth Guardians as the
> child
> had been sent back from Ledbury. I believe the mother was a Magdalene but
> have never been able to find the daughter apart from this letter. Is
> there
> any way of finding who adopted her and therefore lead to her new name.
>
> Many thanks Pat

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