Now, Pauline (pictured) lives four miles away from where she grew up, with her husband and close to her four grown-up children, but she’s been longing to find her firstborn Louise. I asked her to have a word with dad but she said "We can't bring her home."' 'So I asked her if she wanted to hold her and she did. My parents came to see me, dad stayed downstairs, mum came up to the nursery. Pauline has never forgotten the four weeks which she spent with her daughter, who she called Louise, and says, looking at a photo taken during her pregnancy: 'I wish I could have warned myself of all the hurt that was going to come, but I love that picture, because to me it shows that she existed.'Īn emotional Pauline adds: ' was beautiful, very pretty. Her parents arranged for her to go to a mother and baby home and decided the child would be adopted despite Pauline's older sister, Carol, offering to raise the little one.Ĭarol vividly remembers their father’s reaction he said: 'You are not taking in that child… if you do, that’s it, I’ve lost you and Pauline as daughters.' He said: "If you are having a baby let me tell you, you won't be bringing the baby home here." Coming from a big family, the decision was always made for you. 'I just wanted the floor to open up and swallow me. Pauline recalls: 'He said: "There's talk around the neighbourhood that I've got a daughter's who's pregnant and saying that it's you." Soon her parents were aware of her situation and sent her to a mother and baby home, having decided that the little one would be adopted. She told co-presenter Nicky Campbell how she’s been following Pauline’s life on Facebook, after learning her name from her adoption papers, but feared revealing her existence in case of rejection. Long Lost Family, which airs at 9pm on ITV, eventually found Louise, now Carol Whitehead, who was adopted by a local family, and she admitted she’d discovered her birth mother three years ago on social media. Now, Pauline lives four miles away from where she grew up, with her husband and close to her four grown-up children, but she’s been longing to find her firstborn Louise. Soon her parents were aware of her situation and sent her to a mother and baby home, having decided that the little one would be adopted – despite Pauline’s older sister, Carol, offering to care for the child. Pauline Pedder, 65, grew up with her parents and eight siblings in the market town of Huddersfield, and it was there, whilst attending secondary school, she discovered she was pregnant. We just need to find her.A mother who was forced to give her baby up aged 15 has been reunited with her 50 years later on tonight's Long Lost Family - and is stunned to discover her daughter's been following her life on Facebook for the past three years. Paul hopes that this new image will be the key to bringing Jill home. Given that there are no known photographs of Jill, forensic artists at NCMEC created an age progression photo using images of family members. New Jersey State Police have now opened a missing persons investigation and believe that Jill disappeared sometime in 1965, around the same time that Paul was found abandoned. Paul managed to track down Jill’s birth certificate, and he says many people remember the Rosenthal family and their twins. While Paul was abandoned in that New Jersey parking lot, no one knows what happened to Jill.īoth his biological parents, Gilbert and Marie Rosenthal, are deceased now. Through conversations with his biological family members, Paul has discovered that he and Jill were abused and neglected as babies. He’s learned that he has a twin sister, Jill, and he’s on a mission to find her. Jack, who still goes by the name Paul, has been on quite a journey.
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