Searching for Grandma

The search for my maternal biological grandparents started 15 years ago when my mother, Joy, was then in her seventies. I had started researching the maternal branch of my family tree and I could not find my mother’s birth certificate online. Furthermore and curiously, mum’s passport showed a birthplace in County Durham in the North of England, hundreds of miles from her parents’ home in Hampshire. When I asked her about all this she clammed up and, intrigued by her secrecy, I started to dig deeper.