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« on: Friday 30 September 11 20:15 BST (UK) »
Dear Annie - post above.
Thank you for those thoughts. When I confessed to my uncle I had uncovered a family secret about my mother - he wrongly assumed I knew about my brother, and I pretended I did so he would not feel bad about spilling the beans. Luckily I had a very loving upbringing and whatever the outcome will not tell my brother he may only be half brother, he has always been a whole brother to me. I am just naturally curious about anomilies and so want to tie all these ends together for my own satisfaction. In many ways I admire my mother for managing to hide this for so long. I stumbled upon it purely by accident when researching something else that was going nowhere.
My mother was always a bit vague about when she got married was it 1948,or 49 etc. So I decided to check, couldnt find it so thought it might be even further back so clicked on 10 years plus or minus never for one moment considering it might be plus. Bingo one result popped up in 1961, as you can imagine my curiousity got the better of me and I went off on all sorts of tangents hence finding the deed poll - courtesy of a rootsweb member.
I have to assume my father either pretended he was my brothers father or he really was and therefore managed to amend the birth cert. I am curious to see what arrives in the post.