Looking for relatives of SHIRLEY WILLIAMS, born 6/30/1953 Riverside Hospital, Newport News Virginia -- Angels of Hope Registry

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Subject: Looking for relatives of SHIRLEY WILLIAMS, born 6/30/1953 Riverside Hospital, Newport News Virginia

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Richard Stone

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Date Posted: 19:21:47 02/22/06 Wed

I am secretly searching for any information on my mother's parents and any other children they may have had. She was born Shirley (no middle name) Williams, June 30, 1953 at Riverside Hospital in Newport News. What a case worker Mrs. Todd told my grandparents who adopted her is that her father was stationed at Fort Eustis and was a handsome tall blonde man from New York who never knew of the pregnancy and birth. Her mother's husband was in jail, and once he found out insisted that she get rid of the baby before he was released. Her mother and father were married on October 4, 1951. We are pretty sure her mother lived in Newport News, then referred to as Norfolk County. Albert Whitehurst was the lawyer that handled the adoption case for my grandparents, Gladys Murlene Taylor and Lewis Edmond Taylor. My grandparents later adopted another baby girl, Kathy Cartwright, and had one son, Michael Lewis Taylor.
However, years ago my mother obtained paperwork from the adoption agency that had all names, addresses, or any "confidential" information cut out with scissors. The paperwork told a story that her father was from North Carolina and that she had one older brother, which my grandparents knew nothing about. She was able to find that it was Virginia Department of Public Welfare Case #12219 or 11845, Volume 1953 Cert. 1606, with a brother born in March 1952. Naturally we aren't sure what story is correct, or if there are any other siblings or not. Whoever her parents were knew how to cover up their tracks, or perhaps the Army found out that her father had an illegitimate child and changed some information to protect her father. This has been frustrating for years, and I am now 26 and would like to know more about myself and anything about my mother's birth family. Please contact me if you have any information.

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