Adoptive mother: Frances Phelps-Penry, née Phelps, 1895-1980. Born in Bonn, Germany, raised in Teaneck, NJ, United States, an Episcopalian.
Birth father: Raymond (Rajmund Mojzesz/Moses) Kanelba(um), 1897-1960. Born in Warsaw, Poland, a Jewish portrait painter.
Birth mother: Ninon Eugeny Georgina Lydia Gillaine Winch, formerly Sinden, née Trussart, a Belgian Catholic, 1910-1997, born in Gembloux, Belgium.
I was born James Francis Henry Sinden, Wednesday, February 2, 1944, London England. On adoption I became Alexander Francis Shackford Phelps-Penry.
(The
identities of birth parents and the circumstances of adoptive mother
remained largely unknown to me until following her death, when they
were painstakingly acquired over a period of years, as was much else.)
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