Adoptee/Fosteree Not Interested in Tracing
Antoine, Josephine Louise
Antoine was born in Denver, Colorado and adopted after being orphaned while still a baby. She began to study voice in 1921 at college. She won a scholarship to study at the Curtis Institute... [more]
Thomson, John
Thomson was born Patrick McAleer to an unmarried Northern Irish mother in Salford, England. She placed him for adoption and returned to Ulster, and he was adopted as a baby by Andrew and Ma... [more]
Te Kanawa, Kiri
Te Kanawa was born to an unmarried couple (European mother and Maori father). They were extremely poor and already had a son, so the baby Kiri was placed for adoption at a few weeks of age ... [more]
Rollason, Helen
Rollason was trained as a physical education teacher, but after a few years of teaching she began to become involved in volunteer radio broadcasting in Essex. She then presented children's ... [more]
Richardson, Anna Ryder
Richardson was adopted as a baby and had a happy childhood. She has been a model and a fitness instructor, but in the early 1990s she began an design business (although she has had no forma... [more]
Phair, Elizabeth Clark
Phair was adopted as a baby by a well-to-do couple with another adopted child. She had a conventional, middle-class childhood, but began to rebel in high school. She graduated from Oberlin ... [more]
Palmer, James Alvin
Palmer was adopted when two days old by a wealthy New York manufacturer, who also adopted an older girl. His adoptive father died when he was nine. His mother and he then moved to Californi... [more]
Myners, Paul
Myners was adopted from an orphanage in Cornwall as a young child. He started his career as a teacher, but soon became involved in business. He has risen to be the chairman of the Gartmo... [more]
Loxterkamp, David
Dr. Loxterkamp was adopted as a baby by a doctor and a nurse and raised in north-western Iowa, USA. He is now a general practitioner in coastal Maine. He has published a number of articl... [more]
Hansen, Ashia
Hansen was born in Evansville, Indiana, and was adopted by academic English and Ghanaian parents when she was three months old, and lived in Ghana before immigrating to Britain when she was... [more]
Hamilton, Scott Scovell
Hamilton was adopted at six weeks of age by two university professors, joining an older born-to daughter. Later his family adopted another son. He stopped growing when he was three or fo... [more]
Cole, George
Cole was placed for adoption at 10 days of age but did not find out until he was eight, when he found his papers while looking for Christmas presents. He was raised in a council house, l... [more]
Bowen, Jim
Bowen was born Peter Williams in Liverpool and adopted as a baby nine months old, with the name Jim Whittaker. His adoptive parents were a weaver and a brick-maker in Lancashire, and he had... [more]
Waters, William R.
Waters was placed at six weeks of age with a middle-aged single woman as a foster child, and was adopted by her in 1935. He was unable to afford to go to university when he finished high sc... [more]
