Interesting angle! Rhode Island has closed adoption records, but it never occurred to me that DCYF [department of children, youth & families] would release information on foster children. Have you ever gotten information from them? Lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: "CAROLYN SCHWAB" <piermonarchs@verizon.net> | Try contacting Rhode Island, DCYF, for old records. | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Regina Pipes" <rgpipes@hughes.net> | > | > | > Several years ago I was asked by my mother-in-law to help find her birth | > family. My mother in law passed away two years ago and I have put this on | > the back burner BUT I just received an e-mail from her birth nephew and he | > is still hoping to connect with more of his dad's family. I am once again | > asking for help to make my mother-in-laws dream come true by finding her | > only living brother Richard CLARK or at least we are hoping he is still | > living. If we could find Richard it would mean a lot to me as well as his | > nephew that he knows nothing of. | > | > | > | > This is from a letter I posted on the CLARK web site. | > | > | > | > Thank you so much for letting me post this again and hope that someone may | > be able to help us find Richard. | > | > | > | > Regina | > | > | > | > | > | > Several years now I have been helping my eight two year old mother-in-law; | > Betty ROCKLEY PIPES, search for her birth family. Betty was born Blanche | > Laura CLARK/CLARKE March 12, 1923 at St. Mary's Children Home in Cranston, | > R.I. to Florence Edith CLARK. Florence Edith CLARK was the daughter of | > Fred | > and Anna BOHLIN CLARK and sister of Blanche (b. 1905) and Harry R. CLARK | > (b. | > | > abt 1908). When we started our search we had the name of Betty's mother | > and | > the names of her two half brothers; Robert Henry CLARKE born March 7, 1926 | > and died 1993. Robert "Bob" was raised by a Frances LYNCH in R.I., and | > Harold Vincent CLARK born Nov. 29, 1930 and died April 1, 1995. Harold was | > placed in one foster home after another and finally joined the service. We | > have been very blessed with much help and good luck finding these two | > brothers even though they both have passed on. Through our search we find | > that there is still another half brother; Richard CLARK that had to be | > born | > after 1930. Richard is the only one of the children that lived with | > Florence | > Edith CLARK in Rhode Island. I have called every Robert CLARK listed in R | > I | > without any luck so I once again am hoping to find someone on the list | > that | > may be able to help me. I've placed messages on CLARK/CLARKE web sites as | > well as the ones in R I. without much success. I'm putting everything I | > know | > about this family here so just in case someone knows someone that may know | > someone. | > | > | > | > In 1899 Anna BOHLIN came to the states from Sweden Oct. 28, 1904. Fred | > CLARK | > of Augusta, Maine married Anna BOHLIN of East Providence, R.I. | > | > 1900 census Providence, R I Ann BOHLIN is a house servant from Sweden and | > came to the states in 1899. | > | > | > | > Children of Fredrick and Anna BOHLIN CLARK: | > | > | > | > Blanche born abt. 1905 | > | > Blanche may have married a Gene FOLEY but don't think they had any | > children. | > | > | > | > Florence Edith CLARK born abt. 1908 never married that we know of and had | > four children, Blanch Laura (Betty), Robert Henry (Bob) CLARKE , Harold | > Vincent CLARK and Richard CLARK/CLARKE. When Florence died her brother | > Harry | > paid for her funeral. I am guessing she is buried at St. Ann Cemetery in | > Cranston, R I as that is where Harry is buried. Do not know the year she | > died but it had to be before 1991 since that is when Harry died. | > | > | > | > Harry R. CLARK born June 12, 1908 in Providence, R I and died March 1991 | > Conyers, Georgia and is buried at St. Ann Cemetery in Cranston. | > | > Harry married Laura HUDSON. They children are Robert F. CLARK born abt | > 1931 | > and died May 22, 1992 in Georgia, Paul J. CLARK lived in Coventry, R I and | > just died in the last year or so and Catherine CLARK that married a WILBY. | > | > | > | > Rhode Island is such a small state so I am hoping someone may know Richard | > and Betty will finally get to meet her brother if he is still living. Last | > anyone can remember Richard was living with Florence when she died. Paul | > CLARK remembered Richard coming to Harry F. CLARK and asking if he could | > help pay for Florence's funeral as he was unable to do this. I have no | > idea | > how old Richard was at the time. | > | > | > | > Finding Richard would make such a nice gift to this eighty two year old | > that | > has searched all her adult life for this family. | > | > | > | > Thank you for listening. | > | > Regina |