Family photoSix years ago, Jess Base-Fisher was holding his mother’s ashes when her father Nicholas said she needs to tell something.
He revealed that his wife, Jess’s mother, Ann had kept a mystery until he died.
She gave birth before meeting her and kept the child to adopt.
The 53 -year -old nurse says, “From the moment I came to know, I was firm to find my elder brother,” says the 53 -year -old nurse, who lives in Carlton St. Peter in Norfoch.
Family photoJess did not have many facts to go. She knew that the father was the person who had met Ann on a ball in an American airbase in Skulathorpe in Norfolk.
N, who went to work as a nurse and a midwife, was sent to London to give birth.
Using that information, Jess succeeded in tracking his brother’s birth record on the lineage website from September 1962, after searching for a period of 15 years.
“I knew the surname, and I just had a hump that he would have said something like James, and it turned out to be right,” Jess says.
His father, Nicholas, a GP, were very helpful of searching but A bicycle died on leave A few months after revealing his wife’s mystery.
‘An incredible moment’
Jess contacted a social worker, who managed to find James on Facebook in 2021. His name was changed to Alastair Dalgis, although social worker could not tell Jess due to data security.
The social worker sent him a message, and he responded to his email address, but there was no further correspondence, and Jess estimated that he could not find.
“I was very worried because I didn’t know what he knew he was adopted,” Jess says.
In October, Jess decided to re -contact and contact his brother through social activists, and a conversation began.
“This was an incredible moment for me,” Jess says. “And I came to know that my brother lives in Australia.”
In a amazing coincidence, Alastair’s adopted mother, Marjori, was a nurse and her father, Ken, was a GP – Mirrors were mirrors.
He had a daughter, but was struggling to be another child when he adopted Alastair.
He was another biological son, and the family moved from Kent to Australia when Alastair was three years old, under the ten pound poms scheme.
Family photoBrothers and sisters arranged to speak on facetime and interacted for two hours, in which they used to laugh about how they look.
Jess recognized his brother’s manner as his mother being similar, and told him that he shared a passion for music and history.
The 62 -year -old Alastair did not actively discover the family of his birth, but often thought of him for years.
“I was really happy to find,” he says, speaking from his home in Queensland. “I had such a huge upbringing with the amazing parents, and I feel very lucky.”
Fortunately, Alastair knew from the age of ten that he was adopted, but Jess was worried about telling him that his mother had died.
Alastair took the news well, but I wish she could assure her biological mother, before she died that she was a great life.
“My only regret is that I could not find him to tell him. Whatever I wanted to do, he was saying,” It’s fine. Don’t worry about me, “he says.
Jess was able to share with his brother that his parents were married on his date of birth, six years after his birth.
Alastair says that the information sent a shiver to his spine.
“This made me realize that I still matters a lot to him,” he says.
Family photoBrothers and sisters, a month after the first time, Alastair called his sister with some news. He was detected stage four lung cancer.
Jess decided to see her to help her through chemotherapy and arrived in Australia in April, spending five weeks with her.
Alastair’s adopted mother Marjori was especially pleased to meet him.
“I just wanted to support him. It was a magical time. He is the most loving person – he kissed me every morning and night, and the whole family hugged me,” Jess says.
Family photoAlastair is coming to Norfoch in October to live with Jess when he will meet his broad family.
Jess says that she wants her mother to share her secret before she died.
She says, “I feel destroyed for her and I think Alastair has been cheated to learn for a long time.
