Newspaper reports of a missing Grimsby baby
Is part of a major scandal about a couple who took babies from unmarried mothers and placed them with married couples .....!
Lily Kitchen is the only single mother named
I think because her mother took the matter to police
Lily Kitchen/kitchings from great Grimsby
answered an advert placed in Leeds mercury
from a lady without children who would like to adopt a baby for a premium of £11
The baby (boy?) Was born around April 1907....
Handed over aged only 14 days to a couple using an alias
When lily s mother got suspicious and a search for baby ensued
20th may according to derby daily telegraph acouple were charged with having caused death
Gloucester news reports child to be living
Meanwhile other cases emerged
But the child traced to workhouse infirmary may well be the Grimsby baby
the couple Leo selwyn and Lottie
Aka Herbert smith and Lottie Roberts aged 20
Were living I Liverpool taken into custody on remand
Baby turned up alive and well in Lincoln but was he returned to the Kitchen family ?was his birth registered by lily or was he registered under name of new family
There are a few 1907 Kitchen babies .Don't know lily.s age or parents name to find her on census before and after ....
Any extra insight about this family appreciated .
Link to story about All the babies
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=758108.msg6130122#msg6130122