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Hello Jane,
Both David A Paterson & his wife are listed on the current electoral roll (2014) in Edinburgh.
I would suggest that you buy credits from a site such as 192.com which is unfortunately a pay and view site.
This will either open or close an avenue of research for you.
Good Luck.
Dougie.
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Jane
I think you proceed with great caution!!!
You have to consider a number of facts before you approach them ...................
did your father know your mother was pregnant?
If he did know, does his wife also know?
Are you going to come out of left field as a complete shock to both of them?
remember that they are now getting on in years ......... in their mid- to late 70s .................. and their health may not be good.
I ask this because I strongly suspect that the wife of a relative does not know that her now-dead husband had a child in the 1940s when he was 16, several years before he met and married his wife. I do know that none of his children know!
I know because he told me. His parents knew, but are both dead
The wife is now in her mid-80s and very frail ..................... it would be one h**l of a shock if the child did ever find and approach her.
I would recommend that you write a letter, very carefully suggesting that you think you might be related without giving full details, and did he know xxxxx xxxxx in the late 1950s. Give your address and phone number, and enclose a stamped addressed envelope ............. and then just wait and see what happens.
I would most certainly recommend that you do NOT phone them!
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Jane
I am in agreement on the point that you should approach the gentleman with caution.
I earnestly hope that your long search comes to a final conclusion.
On the other hand please be aware that if this is the right person that you are seeking he may not wish to have any future contact with you leaving you very disappointed.
Again Best of Luck
Dougie
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Sylvia / Dougie
I don't think I will be contacting him anyway, and if I did it would be with caution I understand he may not have told any one about me and yes he did know about me. Got email from mum she does not think it is him. But then again she does not know where he was born intact she really does not know anything about him, I just find it so frustrating. That a part of me will always be missing, did he ever think of me. Don't even know what he looks like.
So because the lack of information I would not contact.
Jane
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