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THE No. 162 • October 1995 • Circulation 15,000 Swindon

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Help me find my mum

Readers help wanted in quest to find long lost Freshbrook resident

A fourteen year old girl who was once told her mother was dead believes she is still alive and wants to find her.
Candy Sheppard, pictured be- Candy's memories of Margaret "1 can't imagine what it will be
low, who was born and brought came flooding back when she saw like to see her again. I always felt
up in Freshbrook but now lives in her mother again this summer, close to my mum and I really
Shaw, last had contact with her but only in a photograph taken 12 need to find her to satisfy the
mother Margaret Sheppard six years ago by The Link magazine. confusion in me. I want her love
years ago shortly before she It was on display as part of the and understanding. I want to
walked out of the family home. West Swindon library's tenth an- know her again, and I want her to
niversary celebrations in July. see what I'm like now. We've
We've provided Candy with cop- missed a lot together and I've got
ies, and now she wants readers to such a lot inside to say to her."
help her find Margaret. Anybody who has information
At first Candy always thought which will help Candy in her
she would see her mother again search is asked to contact us.
until family members said she Right: Margaret Sheppard in a Link
had died. After three years she magazine photo from 12 years ago
asked a social worker to investi-
gate the register of deaths in Eng-
land and Wales. Margaret's name
does not appear on it and Candy
is now convinced her mother
must be alive - somewhere.
"I was really shocked when I
was told my mother's name was
not registered dead," she said. I
always had a feeling that she
couldn't be; no officials like the
police or a vicar visited the house
and nobody would tell me where
she was buried or anything. I
g .pf cried and cried when I was told
hOrn: my mum was dead. People who
pa were in my class at Freshbrook
School will probably remember.
The new Haydon Leigh "My mother could have visited
School We line up the us after she left home, but per-
.childrenand: staff: .page8.
haps she didn't have the bus fare;
Abbey Meads. one: year on maybe she couldn't take the pain
Looking back gage 9 of seeing us again."
Candy is now more determined
hoosln9 a secondary
than ever to find Margaret and is
appealing to anybody who knew
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the Sheppard family when they
btECheok lived in Freshbrook to reveal any
secret information they might be e
• Options - keeping. She could still have her

married name, or she may be us-
onpetith: a e'.hav ing her maiden name Brind. Or C,icles eSe
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she may be remarried.
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