Essex woman abandoned as a baby 70 years ago finds relatives after DNA search

Newspaper cutting from the North London Press, April 1945. Credit: ITV London

A woman who was abandoned as a baby has finally traced family members after searching for information about them her whole life.

Great-grandmother Linda Wright grew up in care and was adopted but had never known who her real parents were.

Last year she made a breakthrough when she discovered a front page cutting of the North London Press, dated April 1945.

The paper reported how a smartly-dressed and well-spoken woman had mysteriously disappeared after leaving her baby with a couple living at the Stanley Buildings in King’s Cross.

Newspaper cutting from the North London Press, April 1945. Credit: ITV London

After being put in touch with a DNA expert following reports of her story she went on to find out that her father was a "GI" in the bomber squadron, based in Essex, during the Second World War.

Researches were then able to trace a distant relative in Greece and a number across America.

Linda Wright with ITV London reporter Katie Oakes last year. Credit: ITV London

Ms Wright, who lives in Essex, has since learned that her father died in 1993 but currently has no information about her mother.

Photo showing Edward Patrick Durnen and Anna (Moran) Durnen - Linda’s Great Grandparents. Credit: Linda Wright