Recent content by David Ricketts

Thanks- social services said to go straight for a GRO request. So we've done that! let's see what happens! Have a great week! DAvid

Hi there Lyn! I have applied to the GRO, but many adopted kids find the parents' details aren't recorded properly, and the situation for those people will have changed. It's been 50 years, so I doubt they live where they said, or that they are around- which is why I want to double up and do the...

Hi Steve- thanks so much for your thinking. I lost my adoptive Mum when I was 12- my Dad passed away 3 years ago. It's really that I know there's a piece missing from me, and I would like to fill it. Doesn't matter what with- I just have to find something! You've given me some good things to...

Thank you both for your replies. My Mum died when I was 12, and now there is no one alive from my direct family- my Dad died 3 years ago and we found the bible in a box of other books. I don't mind what I find out, but I'd like to find out something- even if the something is nothing, If that...

Hi there. I was born at Sorrento on June 7th ‘74. My birth name was Peter Richard Beckenridge Keehan. My adopted name is David Ricketts. I need to find anything I can about my birth. I only have an adoption certificate and a birth certificate. I also have a bible- with an inscription inside it...