A woman who was forced to put her baby up for adoption after becoming pregnant at just 16 years old has finally been reunited with her daughter 60 years later on Long Lost Family.
The new series of the popular ITV programme starts on Monday at 9pm, and follows the story of 76-year-old Roslynne (Ros) Webb, who lives in Cornwall but grew up in Coventry.
She was 16 years old when she became pregnant and her strict parents were so ashamed that they decided the baby would be given up for adoption.
To hide her pregnancy, teen Ros was sent 100 miles away to London to stay in a Church of England-run Mother and Baby home until her little one was born.
Ros, who later married but was unable to have anymore children, was forced to give up her only child and it's only six decades later that the pair have finally been reunited in an emotional episode airing on Monday.
The new series of the popular ITV programme starts on Monday at 9pm, and follows the story of 76-year-old Roslynne (Ros) Webb (pictured left, after reuniting with her daughter, Lyndsey), who lives in Cornwall but grew up in Coventry
Ros grew up in Coventry with her parents and older sister, recalling: 'Mum was very strict. She was very concerned about what other people thought.
'As teenagers during the sixties, obviously everything was going on. It was a very wayward kind of living and I was always out and about.
'I became pregnant. When my parents found out about the pregnancy, my mother decided from then on what was going to happen. It was shameful, nobody should know, nobody will know.'
Ros sent to a Church of England-run Mother and Baby home in London but she was thrilled when her baby daughter, Christine, was born in March 1965.
The mother, who spent six weeks with her daughter, recalled: 'She was just gorgeous. She was fair, sweet faced. It was just the best thing. The best thing ever.'
But soon the painful day came when Ros had to give up her daughter. She revealed: '[The] Sister came to me and she said you can go and fetch the baby now and bring her down.
'I went up to the nursery and I picked her up and I told her I loved her and that she’d be taken care of.'
Ros returned home and later married her husband of nearly 50 years, Tony, but she was unable to have anymore children.
Ros (pictured as a teenager) was 16 years old when she became pregnant and her strict parents were so ashamed that they decided the baby would be given up for adoption
To hide her pregnancy, teen Ros (pictured right, recently) was sent 100 miles away to London to stay in a Church of England-run Mother and Baby home until her little one was born. Pictured left, Lyndsey
Ros Webb's parents with Ros centre and her sister (on the right)
She said: 'Throughout my life, I've never really spoken too much about Christine as it is very painful. I wasn't able to have any more children.'
Long Lost Family’s specialist intermediaries discovered that Christine was happily adopted by a vicar and his wife in Kent and that she is now called Lyndsey.
However, Lyndsey’s family seemed to move around a lot and tracing her was not straightforward. It was only when they discovered that she went on to marry that they found her full name and were able to contact her.
When co-host Nicky Campbell met Lyndsey, he discovered that she had tried to trace her birth mother but she thought that her biological parent was a woman with three children living in the Cotswolds.
Nicky revealed that this was not the right woman, as Ros never went on to have any more children, leaving Lyndsey shocked to discover that she is her birth mother’s only child.
Presenter Davina McCall (pictured left) revealed to a tearful and excited Ros that Long Lost Family had found her daughter
When co-host Nicky Campbell (pictured left) met Lyndsey, he discovered that she had tried to trace her birth mother but she thought that her biological parent was a woman with three children living in the Cotswolds
When anticipating what it will be like to meet her birth mother, Lyndsey said: 'It’s going to be one of the biggest things in my life.'
Asked how she was feeling, she added: 'Nervous. Excited. Very excited. I never thought this day would happen. I always hoped it might do, but I kind of gave up hope.'
Presenter Davina McCall then revealed to a tearful and excited Ros that Long Lost Family had found her daughter.
'I was worried that my search would be fruitless, pointless, rejected, but to know she actually tried to find me as well, that's brilliant. It makes me feel so warm,' said Ros.
The mother and daughter cannot believe their similarities as they discuss them during their emotional reunion with one another.
'I’m full of joy and happiness! I want to stand on that step and shout to everybody. You know, I have met her, I’ve met my daughter,' said Ros.
The mother gifted her birth daughter Lyndsey a bracelet as a present, with Lyndsey revealing: 'It’s like my christening bracelet that I lost!'
The new series of Long Lost Family starts on Monday at 9pm on ITV
