I will try to help you in anyway that I can...No promises..

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:16 AM, SHIRLEY-REILLY <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:

> Is this the place I send requests for information?  I hope so.
>
> I am looking for information about a lady who had a baby girl in the
> Alexandria Virginia hospital on the 27th of January 1933.  I know that her
> name is listed as Ruth Mansfield Clark.  I know that she could not keep the
> baby and gave her to a couple who lived in Alexandria, Virginia who wanted a
> child.
>
> I have found that this child was never issued a birth certificate and the
> only notation of the name the child was given was found in the records at a
> church in Alexandria for her christening.
>
> This child was me and I was not told about this until I was 62 years old.
> I am now 77.  Of course the couple (Margaret and Lloyd Lawrence) had both
> passed on by that time.  No one still living new any thing more then that
> she brought me to the house on South Lee street and a neighbor, who by the
> time I found out had also died, took her to Hoadly Virginia which is in
> Prince William County.
>
> I have looked at the 1930 census and some prior, checked lots of records of
> near by County's, talked to lots of people and have not found one avenue
> that ends in the truth.  I have been to the registrar's office in Virginia
> and they will not let me look at her hospital record, but they finally read
> the information to me only after a special request.  Her record says that
> she was 33 or 38 years old at the time. I was told that the 3 or 8 is very
> hard to read.  No husband was listed.
>
> If any of you who are researching the Mansfield (I think this is her birth
> name) and/or Clark name come up with any little fact please let me know.
>
> I know that she had at least seven or eight children and could not keep
> me.  It was the depression and she did what she had to.  I bless her as she
> but me into the hands of two very lovely people.
>
> I so very much would like to know something about her, my birth father and
> sibling.
>
> Please, the least little bit of information will be greatly appreciated.
>
> I thank each and every one of you for taking the time to read this and will
> look forward to any answer.
>
> Shirley Lawrence Reilly
>
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