lost family in ireland?

Question

my mother is mary bidget heaphy.she gave birth to me in london in 1958.then put me in the crusade of rescue catholic childrens home in westminster london.im looking for anybody who may know of anybody with the surname HEAPHY in dundalk or southern ireland.or a house thats named HEAPHY HOUSE

Answer 1

Hello,
OK, here is what I suggest you do, you said in your query that you were left at the Crusade Childrens home in Westminster London in 1958, well, they are the people that will have a record of the addressw where your Mother was living at when she gave you up into their care, but think, did you suffer for not haviong your birth mother near you in your infant years, well probably not, simply because what you never knew about as a baby, you may well never have missed until your later years when you discovered what had happened to you as a baby.
Now, you can fgo on from this point in your life, and ask the Crusaders what happened to your Mother after she left you, they will at least have an address for you to start at, if she moved away from London, the search now starts to get a bit more difficult, but the Catholic church has a record of every single baptised and confirmed child on the planet, and I supposer Dundalk in Ireland ios as good a place as any to commence your search. take with you any and ALL documentation, and go to the diocese office in Dundalk, and plead your case, they will research their files and get in touch with you at a later date and bring you any and all good news, or indeed the not so good news. I wish I could help you further, but unfortunately I am not in that kind of business, as I am a retired Catholic man with 42 years of truck driving in his rear view mirrors. but still active in my belief in my faith, that I know that as a child brought up in our faith, they are duty bound to give you all the assistance they possibly can, in your hand on heart search, for anyone in your life that is a relative part of your life.
My Name is not Heaphy, and I never knew any person that is known by thay name, BUT, SOMEBODY KNOWS, so I would love it for you to find somebody that does know some one that is a relation of yours, I hope Our God really does provide you with all the help and the guidance that you may need in your search. I will metion you in my poor prayer tomorrow, GOD LOVE AND BLESS YOU...................Tony M

Answer 2

Good luck, you could write to everyone with the name of Heaply in the Dundalk phone listings. Do you have your baptismal cert or your Mum's start tracing at that parish.

You are young enough, think about hiring a PI if you have the scratch, that might work. Lastly, if you go to the Dublin Genealogy office write first, there is a waiting list of two weeks for appointments.

Answer 3

Not everybody is listed in the telephone directory, I would contact the library in Dundalk, the library will hold an archive of electoral lists for County Louth, I would than contact the addresses for your surname, you could also try genesreunited.com

Answer 4

Frank Carroll

Answer 5

I imagine her name was Mary Bridget Heaphy and not Bidget...best thing to do would be to sign up to an irish geneaology website or try www.irlgov.ie and see if you can find any information on there!

Answer 6

Go to www.eircom.ie
Search for Heaphy in Dublin. There are ten listings. One of them will know or know of your mother's family. Ireland's a relatively small country.

DO NOT just contact her out of the blue. Have your adoptive agency not given you guidelines on what to do?

Answer 7

You should be asking people over there. Go there and ask everyone you see.

Answer 8

http://www.irelandroots.com/

http://www.irish-roots.net/

http://www.nationalarchives.ie/