The Irish Baby and the Methodist BabyCopyright © 1997 Property of Deborah K. Fletcher for Florence MacLennan Brown. All rights reserved.My grandmother, Doctor Parsons, delivered a baby to an Irish family. They moaned about the fact that they could not feed another mouth. They would have to put it in an orphanage. My grandmother said no. She took the baby home and raised it as one of her own - raised it in the Catholic faith, never adopted it, but made sure she followed all the rules of the Catholic church. I grew up to call her aunt. She did take one child of her own faith as a baby - as a day old baby. She and her husband went to the Methodist church and had it baptised with their surname. That was the extent of adoption proceedings in those days. That child grew up to be my mother. Please View and Sign My Guestbook © 1998-2000 Debbie Fletcher, joiya@tcia.net
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