I am trying to help locate my second cousin’s birth mother, Caroline (or Carolyn) Janet Bailey. My cousin was born Anna Louise Padilla, daughter of Benico Teodore Padilla and Caroline (or Carolyn) Janet Bailey at the Los Angeles General Hospital on 22 July 1965. The couple also had baby born (stillborn) at the General Hospital on 18 September 1966. My cousin’s parents were married in Tijuana, México between 1963-64, but when her father went to get a divorce from his wife (abandonment), they marriage was not on the books and found the marriage was never legal. Here is the information known about Carloyn (or Caroline) Janet Bailey. The couple was living in Rowland Heights at the time she ran off with a neighbor (who she was having an affair with, his name is unknown). Carloyn had older boys from an earlier marriage (or natural son of her) named Ricky and Michael. We are not sure if they were full brothers or half brothers, but they were born about 1962 and 1963, (the boys’ ages were about little over 1 year apart). Lisa (AKA Anna Louise) said that she was named after both her grandmothers. Her father’s mother name is Anna, so assume that her maternal grandmother is named Louise. My father had told me that when Carolyn left the family, my parents were watching the children (my parents were living in Rowland Heights). He took the two boys to Carolyn’s mother house in South El Monte. The mother lived with her second husband, (think his name was) George Westervelt in a trailer along the 60 freeway, off Santa Anita (south side of the freeway) on a construction road. There is now a school on the location. Carloyn had a sister, who was married and had children and took the boys from her mother. The mother was not in good health, and my father said that the grandmother had a metal plate in her head from an accident. A year or two later, Carolyn had contact the paternal grandmother, Anna, who was raising Lisa about getting her back. Anna (the grandmother) does not remember where the letters were from, maybe from Montana, Idaho or Utah. Any information is most welcomed. Sam-Quito ************************************************************************* A message from Sam-Quito Padilla G. at: samquito@nmia.com I'm the County Coordinator for NMGenWeb's Socorro & Valencia Counties. Visit the Socorro County website at: http://www.everton.com/personal-pages/Socorro/ Visit the Valencia County website at: http://www.everton.com/personal-pages/Valencia/ I save used/cancel postage stamps for charity, including duplicates. Send any amount to myself at: 1520 Univ. Bl.,NE#314, Albuquerque, NM 87102-1720