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Family History Beginners Board / Westbourne Square
« on: Saturday 13 January 18 05:59 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
I'm looking for any photos of Westbourne Square, London around 1927. All I can find is pictures of the area after 1944.
I'm searching for information. My Grandfather was found at age 3 in London, he was badly beaten and had a sign around his neck (not sure what it said). He grew up in an orphanage and never knew his family. We have a birth certificate and know his mothers name (Mary Kathleen Boucher) and we have managed to find an address in Paddington square in 1927. Things go very interesting recently when we discovered through ancestry.com DNA that he had siblings. Two that we know for certain and a potential 4th. We've been in contact with the siblings and they were all abandoned in the Paddington, St Pancras area, between 1927 and 1933.
We know that Mary Kathleen Boucher was my grandads mother, she was born in 1904. According to electoral rolls she was living with an Alfred Percy Smith around the same time as grandad was abandoned (Not sure if he is grandads father, his name is not on the birth certificate). I'm just trying to focus on Mary Kathleen Boucher at the moment and would like to see if I can find some photos of Paddington Square and where they lived. Are there newspaper archives I can access? I feel like a beaten toddler may have made the news? His brother was left on a church step at 10 days old and his sister was abandoned too. There is a birth certificate for another child of Mary Kathleen Boucher born in 1935. We don't know anything about her atm. Any help finding information would be great. We are trying to piece together everything that happened and try to understand things.
I'm looking for any photos of Westbourne Square, London around 1927. All I can find is pictures of the area after 1944.
I'm searching for information. My Grandfather was found at age 3 in London, he was badly beaten and had a sign around his neck (not sure what it said). He grew up in an orphanage and never knew his family. We have a birth certificate and know his mothers name (Mary Kathleen Boucher) and we have managed to find an address in Paddington square in 1927. Things go very interesting recently when we discovered through ancestry.com DNA that he had siblings. Two that we know for certain and a potential 4th. We've been in contact with the siblings and they were all abandoned in the Paddington, St Pancras area, between 1927 and 1933.
We know that Mary Kathleen Boucher was my grandads mother, she was born in 1904. According to electoral rolls she was living with an Alfred Percy Smith around the same time as grandad was abandoned (Not sure if he is grandads father, his name is not on the birth certificate). I'm just trying to focus on Mary Kathleen Boucher at the moment and would like to see if I can find some photos of Paddington Square and where they lived. Are there newspaper archives I can access? I feel like a beaten toddler may have made the news? His brother was left on a church step at 10 days old and his sister was abandoned too. There is a birth certificate for another child of Mary Kathleen Boucher born in 1935. We don't know anything about her atm. Any help finding information would be great. We are trying to piece together everything that happened and try to understand things.