she was nine.

Ms Jenny Cross, 32, said she was born in Paget and also lived in Warwick, but left the Island with her father after her parents divorced.

Her father, who has since died, blocked her mother's efforts to contact her in England in the 1970s, Ms Cross told The Royal Gazette .

"I don't know if she's still here, or dead, or moved, or married again twice,'' she said of her mother, who would now be about 58 years old. "I just want to know who she was.'' According to Ms Cross' birth certificate, her mother's name was Rowera Joyce Cross, and her maiden name was Wiltshire. She had dark hair, a medium build, and "was very interested in the politics of the Island.'' But Ms Cross, who was separated from her mother even before she left Bermuda, knows little else about her. And she no longer has a photograph of her mother.

After arriving on Tuesday, Ms Cross has spent time searching Government records without success.

She also plans to search out houses she once lived in and ask neighbours about her mother.

Ms Cross' father was a construction foreman in Bermuda.

Born on September 20, 1960, Ms Cross said she and her brothers were looked after for a time by a black family in Paget named Outerbridge. They had a daughter named Lorna, she said.

Ms Cross now runs a cycle shop near Aylesbury.

LOOKING FOR MOM -- Ms Jenny Cross left Bermuda for England when she was nine.

Now she is back to look for her mother.