Hi If he has his actual birth name ... search FreeBDM for a Burgoyne with a Burgoyne mother in the area that is possible for the birth time period, remembering that the places given are registration districts and you need to click on the link to get a list of towns etc. Magella could well have been a confirmation name. Happy searching. Nothing like a puzzle to be working on :) Susan On 4/01/2014 4:30 AM, Adele Pentony-Graham wrote: > Thank you everyone, I have asked my sister for more information, she has no > idea about doing research. .grr.. I said dates. Are most important, no good > 80 years or more for the age of the person you have met, we want more > details.. dob. He could be saying 80 and mean 90! She replied, will sort it > out, so will see what today comes! All I have in all honesty is a person in > Auckland NZ who is looking for his real mother.. All I have are the names I > mentioned. Margaret Magella BURGOYNE. This enquirer is in his 80s.. > adopted out, why, as he remembers a big house and visitors, lady visitors.. > he was at school in Wareham or nearby, but for some reason Devon comes up, I > know Wareham is Dorset. seems his adopted parents could have been in > service.. I guess my sister doesn't want to upset him to much by asking > more, but I said it's the only way to get looking! I have challenges over > the years and come up trumps.. He was supposed to have been a boys school. > Fee paying.. or the story goes. he was more than happy with the people who > adopted him.. loved his adopted mother, which is lovely to learn.. Magella > to me sounds Spanish, the middle name.. now the Margaret side, Now from my > working out this gentleman would have been born about 1933. > > > > I will keep you posted thanks.. > > > > Adele > > Clareville NZ > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com