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Josephine McCann born May 1, 1934 in Dublin Ireland at the Rotunda Hospital and baptized at 3 Patron's Church 24 days later. Josephine grew up as Josephine Reeves. She was raised at 115 Hollyfield Buildings, she then moved to Mount Pleasant Buildings, and then resided 20 Camden Street next to the Bleeding Horse Tavern. She went to St. Kevin's Girls School on Grantham Street Dublin and received her confirmation at St. Kevin's on Harrington. While hospitalized with TB at St. Mary's Chest Hospital in 1953-1956 her parents and brother moved to Kylemore Drive in Ballyfermot. She then became pregnant and moved to Manchester England to have her daughter Philomena. The social climate and Magdalene Laundries were prominent at this time. Soon after she was informed she was adopted in 1957 while residing in Manchester, England. This is when she changed her name to "Josephine McCabe". She lived in Australia, Vancouver Canada, San Francisco, and lastly Boston, Mass. Her birth record was amended at the GRO by a statutory declaration by her adoptive mother Elizabeth Reeves in 1965 while she resided in Canada. Her room mate and friend Betty was there for her discovery of her birth information in which the Garda and the GRO were involved. Josephine married in 1970 and had a daughter. Josephine suffered many ailments and succumbed to those ailments in February, 1979.

Thirty two years later her two daughters found each other. Both not knowing their mother's story.