1940s
Letters sent from Joan Cross's adopted mother, Emma Cross, to her birth mother, Annie Maud Cross.
Emma Cross is living in Lutterworth so these letters would be from the 1940s after her husband Matthew died (they were still living in Upminster at the time of their Golden Wedding Anniversary in 1936 and she lived with Joan Cross in the 1950s).
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. 1894). Her father, a railway clerk died when Cross was just one year old, and she was informally adopted by her uncle Matthew Cross and his wife Emma, nee Kirkham. She was most likely not told of this until she received a letter from her birth mother at the age of 25 (letter concerning this, see file ref no. CRS/3/125).
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