From The London Gazette of 19 January 1954: "I Pamela Joyce Hails, of 28 Bristol Road, Ipswich, in the county of Suffolk, Married Woman, the legal guardian of M▮▮▮▮▮▮ C▮▮▮▮▮▮ M▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ HAILS, of 28 Bristol Road, Ipswich aforesaid, an infant, spinster and a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by birth, heretofore called and known by the name of M▮▮▮▮▮▮ C▮▮▮▮▮▮ M▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ Crimes, hereby give notice that I have on her behalf renounced and abandoned the use of her surname of Crimes and in lieu thereof have assumed the surname of Hails, and in pursuance of such change of surname, declared that she will at all times and on all occasions use and sign the said surname of Hails in lieu of her former surname of Crimes ..."
When and why did M▮▮▮▮▮▮ C▮▮▮▮▮▮ M▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ pass from the protection of her parents to guardianship? Was she adopted at birth? Was the emigration of her parents and her brother to South Africa in 1952 a factor in her adoption? Why was she treated differently from her brother? |
