47-y-o desperate to meet her mom

June 20, 2024
Daycia Shirley
Daycia Shirley

Daycia Shirley, 47, has never laid eyes on her mother and is seeking the public's assistance in locating her.

In addition to wanting to be reunited, the mother of three said her mother is the key figure in her obtaining a birth certificate, a document she said has set her back significantly.

"Mi can't do any form of real business because nowadays, you have to have TRN. I have a national ID but it is rough. I have a TRN but it is just to pick it up with my birth certificate and I don't have that. Mi have a little business but I need to renew my food handler's permit but I don't have a TRN to repeat it," she said.

Shirley said she was told that she was born in St Elizabeth on February 7, 1977, but at the age of three, her father Owen Shirley, left her with strangers in Guanoboa Vale, St Catherine.

"I am not sure where in St Elizabeth I was born or if it was at home or in a hospital. Mi have two name for my mother suh she is either Jenifer or Janet Miller. Mi father dead 24 years now. Mi never hear much from him so a recently mi start know people from his side of the family like mi uncle dem. I don't know anyone from my mother side," she said.

Shirley said through the assistance of social media, she was able to locate some of her paternal relatives, but none could provide her with any details about her mother. Shirley, who attended the Kitson Town and Guanaboa Vale All Age schools, said she has endured two futile searches at the Registrar General's Department.

"I went to both schools to get my records but Guanaboa Vale said they had a fire and those records were destroyed, but I got the one from Kitson Town. It's just the part with info on my mother I don't have. I don't know her correct name or date of birth or anything," she said.

Shirley said she is left with many unanswered questions and often wonders if having a mother would make a difference in her life.

"Sometimes when mi inna some problem, mi a look pon myself and a say if mi did have a mada mi could have her to sit and talk to and dem tings deh. One a di time mi a say if she did want mi, she woulda look fi mi, but mi don't know if she dead or alive," she said.

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