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207538 Laura Raine Nurse from:Cockfield (d.15 March 1946) My Mother, Laura Raine was a nurse during the World War 2. She worked in Bishop Auckland General Hospital from 1943. During her time employed there she had met at man around April, May or June and they had relations with each other then 9 months later I was born in March 1946. My mother never told me who he was. I found out that she went to the War Office to tell him she was pregnant and they told her he was married and they couldn't give her any information about him. Later in my life I was told that a couple had come to the home I was living in with my grandmother in Cockfield. They wanted to adopt me. However, my grandmother wouldn't hear of it. I was told from my mother's sister, Jenny Raine, that all she knew was that the man was tall and had fair hair and beautiful smile. We do have a few pictures of my mother with a few of the nurses she worked with at the hospital some of the names are on the back like "Nurse Swinbank, and nurse Moore? I think the names are a little hard to read. I feel as time has passed that most of my life has been a lie. My mother has passed away in 2002 and my step-father has passed as well, there is my half brother left and myself. I feel like I have been left in the dark and had such a hard life due to never being able to do anything right in my mother's eyes and I was too scared to ask her, she was very nasty to me. If anyone can help in anyway with information on my mother Laura Raine, and maybe the nurses she may have chumed with just maybe some has a picture of her and my real father or even just his name will do. I feel that I do still, after all these years, have faith and hope there is maybe some family out there somewhere. Thanks so much. Evonne Raine Related Content: Can you help us to add to our records? Add a record to our website. The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them Did you or your relatives live through the Second World War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? Were you or your relative evacuated? Did an air raid affect your area? If so please let us know. Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice. Contact us. Celebrate your own Family History Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Secomd World War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.

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