Oranges and Sunshine Page #2

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Well, if children did emigrate

to Australia in any numbers,

there must be some record of them.

I was just wondering

if you had any records

of any unaccompanied children

sent to Australia in the 1940s and '50s.

I don't think we ever had those

records in Australia House.

So there were children sent out there?

Um, do you know how many?

When? Why were they sent?

I've already told you.

We don't have any more information.

So who would know?

Why don't you ask your own government?

They're the ones

who sent the kids out there.

I know, I couldn't believe it.

I mean, I was still half thinking

that the story couldn't be true

and he just came out with it.

Yeah.

No, no. I think I'm going to...

I think I'm going to still get the later train

and I'm going to try

St Catherine's House now.

See if I can find

Charlotte's birth certificate.

If I can get her mother's

name off that,

then I can probably find out

when she died

and then when Charlotte

was placed in an orphanage.

We can start to trace her journey.

Maybe get some clues about why

Nicky's brother was sent away as well.

Charlotte's mother wasn't dead.

Lovely to see you, Merv.

How was your day?

Charlotte said

she was in an orphanage in 1950

because both her parents were dead.

Well, I found a record of a woman

with her mother's name

who got married in Nottingham in 1956,

not dead, very much alive

and eating wedding cake.

Might not be the same woman.

I've ordered up the certificate

but why would Charlotte have been sent

if she wasn't an orphan?

So if her mother was alive in '56,

she might still be alive.

- I know.

- So you going to follow that up?

Well, I'll find the address on the certificate

and follow the trail from there.

Do you think it's her?

About the right age.

Hello, Vera.

Yeah, not bad. And you?

Is that the time already?

Thanks.

Hang on, I'll finish that up.

Excuse me, are you Vera Wilson?

That's me.

How can I help you, love?

I was wondering if I could

have a word with you in private.

It's something personal.

I'll take you through.

What's it about?

It's about your family.

Oh, my God.

I knew you'd come one day.

It's you, isn't it? You're my baby.

No, Vera, I'm a social worker.

Do you know where our baby is?

Let's go somewhere

where we can talk in private.

Where is she?

Does she have a family?

Is she happy?

Charlotte's in Australia.

She grew up in a children's home

in Australia.

In Australia?

What was she doing over there?

What was she doing

in a children's home?

I went back to get her

and they told me she'd been adopted.

I went back to get her.

They told me she was better off.

She was in a real family.

What's she doing in a children's home

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