‘My life since December 2017 has been one of huge change, excitement, emotional turmoil. I was born in Redruth, Cornwall, on 20 September 1945, and was adopted at a few days old by Mr and Mrs Kilvington, who lived in Wembley, Middlesex. Brought up as an only child, I was told of my adoption when I was about 10 but it had very little impact on my life. I became a dentist, married (twice) and have four children.
‘When I retired, I became interested in my family history. The information on my birth certificate, which I first saw in my 40s, was that my name had been Derek Anthony Jones, and my mother was Celia Jones, a student nurse from Wales, who later married a doctor in the Canadian Air…
