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could i please have his certificate
 if its still available, sincerely elenor62

hello i am trying to connect Ernest Goff to my father k j p as after years of wondering and looking i recently found out that he was my fathers father. my grandmother Edith Doreen pound (deceased)and grandfather Ernest Goff (deceased) had some form of relationship in 1935, they weren't married when she fell pregnant to Ernest, i am not sure if he even knew about his child as when she knew she was pregnant/started to show ?? she went into a unwed mothers home and when it was time she had K j p, no one in the pound family today know anything about Edith Doreen Pound having a child out of wedlock before marrying Walter Douglas Baker (deceased) in 1940 Totnes Devon. the  part that i am stuck on is i don't know which Ernest Goff he is or where he lived or relatives i can contact, to let them know and for myself and father to connect with or for photos and information. all i have is her name , his name and good old year number 1935 as that's when she became pregnant with my father and that it was in Totnes, Devon. i hope some one knows this story or can help me please with this as my father had a heart attack recently and i would love to inform him ( if this works in his favor) that is. PS he isn't on my fathers birth certificate and after birth/six months (?) was placed into a babies home (Dunraven babies nestling home) and when he was 5 years old transferred to a boys home in Falmouth Cornwall, then at 15 transferred to Australia, there was never an adoption of any kind thank you in anticipation elenor62

thank you for your reply as i said to Dawnsh i really appreciate the help given, but he isn't on the birth certificate and you could very well be right in the name of the children's home as over time my father could have gotten the name mixed up as it was along time ago thank you again i keep hitting brick walls but i will still persist , sincerely elenor62

Hi i live in Australia and i am trying to find my fathers father or anything about who he is or was as my father's (Kenneth john pound born may 1936 in Exeter, Devon) mother was Edith Doreen Pound born 1903 in Totnes, Devon also, she gave him up and  put him in a home called "Dunbevenes babies home" (for children aged 6 months to 5 years ) and he was there till he turned 5 and was then located to st Budocs till he was 15,at this age he was sent from England  to Fremantle Australia in 1951, (he was what they called a a british home child/ child migrant/ten pound pom/forgotten child) like so many others. i have been searching every place ,site etc to no avail does anyone in england know who he might be as Edith hasn't mentioned anything anywhere or left any clues and she passed away in 1965 from what i found any help would be gratefully appreciated as i need to find this out before my father pass's as he's quiet old now and in fragile health, sincerely elenor62