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Petition update, 19 May 2009

More details from petition creator

My father took his own life at the age of 29, I was 13 months my brothers 5 & 8. My father's adoptive mother decided not to tell my father about his true whereabouts and constantly reminded him of how lucky he was to have been adopted as his real mother didn't want him! My father died never knowing where he came from, who he belonged to, basically he left this world without the knowledge that he craved. Ironically the year after his death the law changed and he would've been able to go and find out this information for himself rather than being beholden to my grandmother. I have a family of my own now, it would be nice to do a family tree that didn't end with my father! I have tried so many times to find out more information and have ALWAYS been told that the information held is only for the adoptive person to access - my response to this - HOW CAN HE WHEN HE IS DEAD! Therefore this law should be slackened to allow people in my position to access my deceased fathers records just to see who we all are and also so my mother can see who she was married too! I would sign a clause to say that I would not approach people, I would do anything infact, but most of all I would just like to have a name of my true grandparents..

Current signatories

Andrea Pickering, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Brian Pears
• Paul Clare
• Karl Jones
• marion phillips
• Andrew Hart
• Martin Pickering
• Roy Nelham
• mrs s.mcknight
• Frances Lake
• shana crawford
• jason martin
• Alec Crawford
• Jane Alison Nixon
• linda schrimshaw
• sheila elson
• ann rizvi
• pauline pulford
• gill coleman
• barbara yasin
• jo Whitrow-Coates
• Dale Pinder
• Dianne Maloney
• Claire McKnight
• Katrina Wilson
• geraldine suckling
• cheryl west
• cathy halliwell
• Hannah Renier
• Paula Kenny
• Mrs M.Wagg
• K Newport
• jean reynolds
• john howell
• Irene Fisher
• michelle denny
• Lorraine Carroll
• mark williams
• Susan Drumm
• Yvette Reynolds
• tom humphrys
• Marion Ghiglione
• robin lake
• Chanel Barton-Grimley
• carol fitzgerald
• Jacqueline Dennis
• Saffron Case
• Catharine Mulcahy
• Jo-Anne Campbell
• Diane Bellringer
• Kerry Maggs
• Louise Draycott
• Elizabeth T Cawley
• Sark Durade-Kenny
• Jacqueline Cucchiara
• Joanna Bennett
• Pamela Harding
• James Drumm
• David Uri
• Camilla Fisher
• Stephen J Kench
• David. Samuel Oatley
• Brenda C. Burcham
• Peter Youe
• Bridget Boyd
• Sally Humphrys
• Ian Harding
• Patricia Ferrett
• Louise Selvidge
• Debra Gleave
• vanessa gellard
• Nan Keightley
• Diane jones
• Fiona Langston
• Darren Ings
• Dawn Fassenfelt
• Doris Frost
• angie rankin
• steve johnson
• Angela Hockham
• Elaine Gates
• Kimberley Gribble
• Adrienne Westley
• Wendy Bath
• Jean Kerslake
• Andrew Sowden (wheresmydad.org.uk)
• Nicola Aitchison
• Sally Anderson
• Stuart harding
• Alison Williams Bond
• Kerrie France
• Michelle George
• Jay Morgan
• Catherine Kerr
• Rosalind Lake
• Gill Campbell
• Alexandra J Maund
• Mandy Pearce
• Caroline James
• Peter J Tunley
• jane mann
• Alexandra Maule
• Janice Martucci
• vanessa bell
• Jane Reed
• sue kuhn
• Ann Saunders
• alan spence
• Karen Carrington
• Jane Mallett
• Anne Caroline DENIS
• Dennis Canty
• Jeanette Rajadel
• Jean Kathleen Viana
• Michelle Williamson
• clare smith
• Jenny Hill-Norton
• Victoria Parry
• Carol Gauthié
• Annabel Harbut
• Diana Nguyen
• Warren Burdock
• Alan K Dutton
• linda John
• Rachel Clapson
• Stuart Tyrrell
• Rosemary Harris
• Thomas Craig
• Robin Collis
• Veronica Collis
• Christina Hollaus Dobbins
• g w mills
• Sally O'Farrell
• Thomas Le Goff
• Margaret BURNS
• Liz Smith
• Trevor Smith
• Kirsty Smith
• Gaynor Schofield
• marian argac
• Susan McDonald
• Patrick O'Farrell
• robin cooke
• Anna Le Goff
• Susan Manning-Jones
• Andrew Manning-Jones
• Judith Thompson
• Patricia Dawes
• Jocelyn Adams
• Mark Lombard
• Charles Haddock
• Jane Elston
• Karen L N Potter
• Heather Carver
• nicola cavell
• Anita Ricrads
• shaun cavell
• PETER JOHN PHELAN
• lee thorogood
• Ruth Harriet Gallie
• Janet Ruth Gallie
• R A Rayner
• Sarah Bartlett
• chris gallie
• Wendy Boother
• clare coxon
• Vivienne Harvey
• Henry Cann
• louise bartlett
• Mark Robling
• J Rawbone
• Mark Pettigrew
• Sarah Asquith
• Patrick Robathan
• Catharine Scott
• Pam Owens
• Kevin McLoughlin
• Jim Hughes
• FREDERICK CRACKNELL
• manish shanker
• Hilary Izon
• Jeff Clague
• Emma Maule
• Andrew Whenman
• Debbie Cookson
• Claire Lucas
• Allison Caffyn-Rayner
• Kathleen Webster
• Joanna Lambert
• Joanna Smith
• Laura Martin
• Susan Whittingham
• Leeann walker
• jemima Mann-Baha
• Nic Mann
• Teresa Wilde
• lorraine hayes
• Paula Clements
• Rosemary E Maytham
• David Leadbeater
• Andrew Leadbeater
• Elaine Leadbeater
• Heather Wright
• Terence Wright
• Julian Hawksworth
• Christine Roulston
• B H Edelstein
• D Roulston
• Derek Winter
• Elizabeth Milner
• Geoff Underhill
• Peter Lake
• Dennis Casson