Appeal to find foster brother after fruitless 50 year search

A FAMILY who took in a baby boy and cared for him for three years, have launched a search to find him, 50 years on.

Fred and Margaret Slowe, who lived on Stanks Drive, Seacroft, Leeds, would foster youngsters and it was in 1961 that baby Kevin arrived.

They loved him as one of their own but three years later, he was suddenly taken away and put in an orphanage.

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And despite a tireless hunt to find Kevin, who would now be around 51, their search remains fruitless.

Jayne Burrows, who was just a toddler herself when he left, says she would like to contact Kevin or Sean McCarthy again, as would her parents,

She said: “There was a knock on the door and it was a man with a baby in his arms who asked if we could look after him. He told us the baby was called Sean Kevin McCarthy. We called him Kevin.

“We didn’t hear anything for three years, until two nuns had come to say his father wanted him to be brought up a Catholic, at the local orphanage, possibly Mount St Marys in Leeds.

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“We were all distraught. I had known him as a brother for all of my short life. Things were different then and my parents were quite poor so couldn’t fight to keep him.”

She said the family did try to visit him but he was too distressed so they stopped going.

Today Jayne, who now lives in Blackpool, added: “I’ve tried all the usual search channels but because I’m not a relative it is difficult to obtain information. We seem to have drawn a blank.”

Anyone who can help please email [email protected].

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