Searching for Doris (Cohen) Woods
****I posted a similar post earlier.Brenda has been given some conflicting information regarding her birth family.Here is some additional information that might help with this search.If anyone has any information that they can offer, all would be greatly appreciated.****
A friend's mother, Brenda, was illegally adopted and we're looking for information on her biological parents.
The information that Brenda was told about the story of her birth and adoption is:
Doris (maiden name possibly Cohen) Woods was pregnant and knew that she could not keep her baby. A lady who met Doris had a sister who had had six miscarriages and desperately wanted a child. They made a plan that when Doris went to the hospital to have her baby, she would register as Effie Marie Martin (the sister who had the miscarriages). In September 1954, Doris registered at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans as Effie Marie Martin and gave birth to Brenda on 9/24/1954 at 12:33 a.m. After giving birth, she left the hospital without telling anyone she was leaving, and the real Effie Marie Martin came into the hospital, took the baby and signed out of the hospital as herself, taking the baby as her own.
Understandably, we have very little information on Brenda's genetic mother. What we do know is that her name was Doris Woods and we believe she lived on Caliope Street or Prytania Street in New Orleans. She was around 26 when she gave birth to Brenda (so she was possibly born around 1928).Brenda was told that Doris had two other children, Joyce (or Evelyn) born around 1948 or 1949 and Marvin (or Merlin) Woods born around 1950 or 1951.We are unsure if these names are accurate.Brenda suspects that her real mother might not have given her the siblings correct names for fear that she would try to find them.
Brenda was told that Doris's mother's name is possibly Ruth Cohen.She lived on 1033 Prytannia Street.Supposedly there was some domestic violence and the police were called out to their home at times and there might be court records regarding this.
If anyone is able to fill in some of the pieces of this puzzle, please contact me.
Thanks.
Jayna