Grandmother Jocelyn Taylor, who was born profoundly deaf and adopted at 11 months old, had an emotional reunion with her older brother after he had initially missed the messages she sent him when she tracked him down. In ITV's Long Lost Family on Monday, June 20, Jocelyn attempts to find out more about her birth brother after he seemingly ignored her messages on a DNA site.
The man in question, James Ford, was discovered to be a DNA match for her two years previously and Jocelyn, now 67, was determined to find out why he hadn't responded. Earlier this month, the Long Lost Family team dealt with a woman who had been switched at birth, which you can read about here.
Jocelyn, who described her childhood as “good”, commended her adoptive mother for being “brave to take in a deaf baby”. She had previously told her that she’d been left at a children's home when she was just two weeks old. This prompted her to have feelings of guilt and she described how she constantly questioned what she had done to make her birth parents leave her. The small nugget of information that Jocelyn’s adoptive mother did have was that she had a brother.
