Twins Adopted To Different Parents Didn’t Know About Each Other Until Now

All Grown Up

The sisters took very different paths in life. Elizabeth moved to London with her mother and found out that she was a twin when she was 15, around the same time that her mother married George Burton. She later moved to Chester, joined the Women’s Royal Enlisted Navy, stationed at Portsmouth, England, and then at Malta, Italy. She also married an American Navy sailor. The couple settled in Portland, Oregon, and raised two boys there.

Ann discovered that she had a twin when she was 14. Her aunt told her that she was adopted, so she went home and asked her parents about it. Her mother, Gladys, told her that her mother was unable to keep her, so had allowed the Wilsons to adopt her. After learning that she was adopted, she never seemed interested in researching further.