22 Mar 1925
Letters to Joan Cross from her birth mother Annie Maud Cross.
This includes a letter regarding Joan Cross's adoption signed with initials AMC, matching those of Joan Cross's birth mother, on birth certificate (CRS/13/3). Envelope included.
Joan Cross was born as Annie Cross to parents Joseph and Annie Maud Cross in 1900, the youngest of three (sister Jane b. 1891, brother Joseph b. 1994).
Her father, a railway clerk, died when JC was just one year old, and she was informally adopted by her uncle Matthew Cross and his wife Emma, nee Kirkham. (For letters from Emma Cross see file ref no. CRS/3/29).
She was most likely not told of this until she received a letter from her birth mother at the age of 25.
Joan Cross very rarely referred to Emma Cross, for whom she cared in the 1950s and who died in 1955 at the age of 91, and to nobody else from her family, including her birth parents.
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