The story unfolds...

I now have certainty as to who my birth mother was. I now need a little progress to confirm exactly where she is. It should be straightforward as there is only one person listed on the electoral rolls of the UK that has her name!

So my history that I have uncovered is this. I was born in a Salvation Army Hostel in Elswick, Newcastle for "fallen girls". My mother was just seventeen at the time. My mother got married fifteen months later at which point she would have been five to six months pregnant with my half brother George. She was eighteen at the time. I also have a half-sister who came along four years later. When she got married she was a General Store Assistant and her husband was a 'Roll Cutter'.

My mother got married in a Catholic Church (I wasn't expecting that!) and would appear to be separated, or possibly divorced.

So it would seem she was a devout Catholic in not using contraception, however the use of absitence was clearly not one of her strengths.

The real mystery remains which is what was she doing in Newcastle (I am sure there were homes for fallen girls in Middlesborough) and how did she meet my father who was anecdotally Malaysian, definately oriental?

I will decide over the next few days what to do next.