This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Rutila_Washburn Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11668.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: hi, they were all of what my grandmother can remember and told me, in terms of sources. That the only evidence that she has of my grandmother's mother is of her mother's Common Book of Prayers that had writing in the first page ( see image from previous post ). And of a painting of May Wright that Thomas William Henry Holmes, my grandmother's father, had it made with using a photo that he once had. For which the photo is long gone, and that my grandmother probably doesn't even have it. My grandmother knows that she was born in some private medical clinic in Sandringham, Victoria, Australia, but doesn't remember the name of the clinic, and that May Wright must have died during childbirth/complications of childbirth, since otherwise May would have taken my grandmother and raised it herself. Since it was Thomas who took my grandmother Dawn and raised it. We know there is no death record for May Wright and no birth for my grandmother because the family wanted to keep the affair a secret and that from what I heard from my grandmother that my grandmother's stepsisters destroyed everything they can of about May Wright and of the affair. and that with being born in a private medical clinic or centre, the doctors probably didn't bother to keep any records during that time. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>