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Have googled about POW's in Sheffield and there is a lot on the POW's working on farms. Makes interesting reading.

What was the name of the farm?

You could try historical records of the Dr's working at Sheffield Hospital during the years your mentioned.

Also bit of chit chat about the POW's and the importance of Sheffield at the time and German POW's.

Good luck

Sappho

Sarah, can you acknowledge that you understand about which birth certificate to get and how to do it, and how it could help you?

I had a pm last night, from Sarah, asking which birth I was referring to (see 25th Jan 20.50) and told her about Margaret's birth in 1947 from Shirley. Sarah said she would order birth cert today.

This is where the POW came from near to Kathleens farm. I found this on the internet. My Grandmother told my mother Kathleens babys Father was a German POW. So it all fits!



UNIQUE film footage of life in Boughton Prisoner of War Camp in the 1940s goes on display on Saturday at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester.

The rare footage, filmed by a British soldier working at the camp, was recently discovered in a loft.

Guy Reckin (88), from London, worked at the camp and shot the 12-minute film in 1945 - donating the footage to the museum shortly before his death at Easter.

The exhibition - 'Captured: The Extraordinary Life Of Prisoners Of War' - opens over the Bank Holiday weekend at the Imperial War Museum North. It shows what everyday life was like for POWs in Europe and the UK.

Boughton No 633 (German) Prisoner of War Company was one of more than 1,000 POW camps in Britain during World War II - however, there is hardly any film footage of the camps remaining.

How exciting Sarah - this does seem to fit the information I had googled on POW's near to your farm information.

Well done you and keep us informed when the cert comes. If not your baby Arnold, then it could be Freda? I am picking the latter personally, but I could be wrong. It's just that 1947 seems a little later although I am not sure if any German POW's remained and made their lives in England. I understand that some did. I feel excited for you.

Sappho

Please dont laugh..this is so strange...as i said Kathleen was a farmer. When i was a little girl she had a pet cow..........called Freda!!!!!!!

Freda is also a German name .

If the birth certificate i have ordered doesnt come up with the goods then i am going to take my chance and order the Freda one. YOU NEVER KNOW!!!!! :-D

ive printed off the Government adoption contact register. do you think its worth £30 . if she registers then they will match us up .

do you think that this a good idea

Absolutely delighted for you, for your family for your helpers on genes.

Congratulations to you all and Sarah - you sound over the moon.

Some good advice and help here going forward. You will be in a special place now and I knew this would happen.

Well done all round.

Sappho

Sarah, hasn't it has already been established that it can't be the Freda birth. quoting from earlier in the thread

"Freda was discounted on the other thread because she was originally registered in 1929.

If you click on the page number she was also registered under Parsons."

Dear all.........the birth certificate came today and ....IT IS MY ARNOLD BABY!!!!!!!!!!! :-D :-D :-D :-D.
iTS AMAZING!!!!!! I AM SO HAPPY.

There is a lot of information there but i would like to post it to you individually rather than on here. There is no fathers name but an address where she was born in sheffield. , Kathllens home address and then written on it is the word 'adopted'

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH THAT HELPED ME...YOU HAVE MADE MY DAY!!!!!
Now..where do i go from here!!!!!

So pleased you have found the correct one :-)

That's excellent Sarah :-) At least you are now certain of her birth name and date, so you will be able to put it on your tree so that if she is also searching she will be able find you. Remember to keep GR updated if you change your email address.

well that is terrific Sarah, and darned quick!

good advice from Rose, especially always making sure your email address is up to date in this account ... it is worth getting a free online account like at Gmail so that even if you change internet service providers your mail will always go there

even if you no longer pay for a subscription here, you will be able to reply to messages people send you

(if your subscription expires you can also always reply again to messages anyone here has sent you in the past, something else to keep in mind in case you need help in future)

something to do first off, dark as it seems, is try to rule out that Joyce's daughter has died ... after 1969, the deaths index shows the exact date of birth and it can be searched at Ancestry by that information alone (with no name even)

it is an arduous task but finding all the deaths of women with that birthdate and then trying to identify their birth under that name, or marriage to that surname, could leave someone unaccounted for who could possibly be your person

for example I took the random birthdate 1 August 1947 ... 187 people with that birthdate died between 1947 and 2007 ... so about half that many women ... 4 of them (2 men, 2 women) died in Sheffield, fewer than 20 in Yorkshire

even if she had died, you could very possibly get in touch with family

but of course the odds are pretty good that she would still be alive, at under 70 :-)

Just seen this and it's GREAT its the right birth

Us helpers can only go with info posted when someone is looking for a relative and TRY to find what info is out there

You could add yourself to the adoption contact register just in case she comes looking for her birth family

:-) good result so far which is step in the right direction

on the birth cert it gives an address where she was born. ive checked the place on google earth and its a house not a hospital! Could it be her Aunt and Uncles house.

How could i see who lived in that house in 1947 please?

does that mean that the baby was born at the Aunty and Uncles home ?

If she was born at a hospital, surely the birth cert would list the hospital as place of birth?

Well electoral rolls for that time are held at the local main records office for the area

They are searchable by address which you have , you may have to search in person BUT could try an online contact . They may search for you but make a charge for it

Try googling for the address of the main office of try the local council by phone for info . I have found most councils very co operative

Info here re electoral registers for Sheffield

https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries/archives-and-local-studies/collections/electoral-registers.html

just to let you all know, that ive completed the Adoption register and posted it today so fingers crossed that something comes from it.

i just want to thank you very kind people for helping me. I couldnt have done this with out you. I wish i could have met you and given you a big bunch of flowers.
I will keep you informed of anything new.

I hope that i find her. its so important to me. her mum was like a mum to me.

Wish you lots of luck Sarah and please do let us know what happens. To get back to this thread when on GR just hit My Threads - up above on the left hand side and you'll find it very easily. :-)

Pat