Sammie Wilson is on a desperate search for all her remaining family members after being adopted aged five
A mum who is searching for her long lost family after being adopted at the age of five was shell shocked when she was told where her grandad lived.
Sammie Wilson, 41, originally from St Helens, said she found out she was adopted aged 16, and at 18, when she was able to get her birth records started to search for them.
In her search for her family she was happily reunited with her mum, brother and dad but couldn’t believe it when she was told where her grandad lived.
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To Sammie’s surprise when tracking down her grandad she discovered he lived less than five minutes from her home in Blackpool. She said: “It just so happened that he lived round the corner from my house, legit a five minute walk, I could have walked past him in the street. I eventually plucked up the courage and knocked on the door and when he answered he knew exactly who was instantly, it had been 20 years.
“I don’t know how he ended up here from St Helens and he has had a stroke so can’t really talk, I want to learn more. I’ve now found out my grandad has a brother, he is called Roy, I believe he is still in St Helens.”
Sadly, despite being reunited with her parents, they have both since died which has now spurred on Sammie, who has four children, Alex, 16, Jason, 12, Trinity, four, and Freddie, five months, to find all her remaining members of her family.
Sammie said: “Mum was 62 when she died from pneumonia, it was lovely to spend those years with her, our relationship was lovely in the end.
“And my dad was amazing when I finally found him, by the time I found him we only had five months together because he died from cancer that same year, at [the age of] 47. It was lovely to reconnect, I just wish we had got longer. [In that time] he managed to meet my eldest child, he saw the birth of his first grandchild and watched me get married.
“It would be nice to find the rest of my biological family because I haven’t got anyone left, except for my grandad, Cyril Fletcher, and brother. All I know is that they are from St Helens.
“I want to find him [Roy], he is the last of my biological family. I have already lost my dad, mum, auntie, and there is another child in a picture I have with Roy and I want to know who the child is. I have questions. It would be so nice to find my real family because I have children I want them to meet. Family is everything to me.”
