I have a rather sad story in the Garnham part of my FT and wonder if anyone can throw any light on what happened to Edith Grace Johnson, who was born 5 Oct 1919 in Ipswich, so we need to be aware that she might - just might - still be alive. Her parents were Rose Alice Garnham born 7 March 1888 Ipswich, died 14 June 1924, Ipswich when Edith was five years old, and Richard Johnson, born 1877, Camberwell, Surrey.
Before my mother died - many years ago now - she told me that after Rose died, Richard Johnson brought up Edith, but that in 1941 (by which time Edith would have been in her early 20s) she visited my maternal grandparents, and she had a baby with her who was her daughter. No other information is known, other than that Edith left with her child, saying she was returning to London, but promised to keep in touch And that was the last that was ever heard of her or her child (whose name I don't know).
I have tried to find out what happened to them, but with no success. Jan (Groom) has helped me in the past and she found Edith as a patient in the East Suffolk Hospital, Anglesea Road, Ipswich in the 1939 census, but other than that I can't find anything about her. Family speculation was that Edith and her baby died in the blitz, or Edith married and went abroad, but it would be good to solve this family mystery, if at all possible.