First as a child, then as a parent, 57-year-old farmer Sian Jones, was denied a loving mother and daughter bond; her adoptive mother, she says, was not affectionate and Sian lost a baby daughter late in pregnancy. Now in an episode of ITV's Long Lost Family on Monday, July 4, Sian takes up the search for her birth mother.
Sian, who lives on a farm in Gwynedd with her partner Gary, begins her search in Llanfyllin - the Powys village where her mother, whom she previously discovered was called Sylvia Humphries, had stayed during her pregnancy. Sian had found out her identity from her adoption paperwork. Upon visiting the workhouse where Sylvia stayed when she was pregnant, Sian said: “To any young mum, it must have been frightening to be told that you can’t keep your unborn child.”
Twenty years ago, Sian was told that Sylvia had gone to “live by her daughter in Wrexham,” after visiting her birth mother's home. When Sian discovered this, it confirmed to her that she had a younger sister. Since then, the Welsh farmer has been unable to find her birth family. “I need to know what could have been or what was,” she said.
