STANELLA WAS GIVEN AWAY AS A BABY

  

Council house lovely had a mansion secret

A new book published at the weekend tells the story of  Stanella (pictured a strikingly-beautiful woman who was born to live in an historic Scottish mansion but was denied this wealthy lifestyle she should have had. Instead, she was  given away as a baby.Stanella`s Irish mother did not want her.

  

 But a loving working class couple took  the baby in and gave her a name. The baby from the mansion of 120 rooms grew up into a  woman who  found true happiness in the couple`s three - bedroom  council house in Ridgemount Road, Carlisle.

But Stanella knew there was something that was not quite right. In her twenties, the secret of her birth came out came out which made her desperate to meet her real mother . 

Stanella spent The rest of her life trying to meet her. And her real mother was equally as keen to know about the baby she had given birth to but had given away. But barriers were always put in the way.

Sadly, mother and daughter  never did meet again. Both died  without that much-longed-for meeting .

The book, “Lovely Stanella: My Quest For the Truth”, also tells the story of the Scottish mansion, Terregles House, near Dumfries,seat for centuries of the aristocratic Maxwell family and its links with Mary Queen of Scots.

It also tells the story of Stanella`s Irish family, the Clenaghans from Lisburn and their struggles as Catholics during the last century`s Irish troubles.

The Clenaghans overcame arson attacks, rioting and looting to emerge as highly successful and wealthy cattle dealers.The book was written by Stanella`s  loving husband, John Barker. It is published by P3 Publications, 3 Beaver Road, Carlisle at £12.

 

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