Emotional Long Lost Family foundling left stunned by shocking family secret
AN emotional foundling on Long Lost Family was stunned after learning a shocking family secret.
A foundling is a child whom is abandoned at birth with no obvious trace or connection to a set of birth parents.
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Founding Lisa Dyke wanted to learn more about her origins
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Davina McCall revealed that Lisa was one of four full siblings
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Lisa was emotional to learn more about her birth family - including her late birth parents
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Lisa Dyke, 55, was left in another baby's pram in Christchurch,
Hampshire
.
Although raised by loving adoptive parents, she had lingering questions about her origins.
However, Lisa was left stunned by what was ultimately revealed to her.
Lisa's parents had three other children - all full siblings to her.
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In fact, she is the third-born child - and the only one to be left.
Lisa has an older brother and sister, Tim and Jen, as well as younger sister Lynn.
She told host Davina McCall: "I'm trying to process it.
"I feel like I've gone from having nobody to now having three full siblings. All very similar ages. "
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Unfortunately, both of Lisa's birth parents had already passed away.
Taking to X, one viewer penned: "Goodness, how does anybody try and process that, I've no idea."
Long Lost Family viewers left gobsmacked and in tears at heartbreaking story of woman forced to abandon FOUR babies across 22 years
Another wrote: "It must be so hard to find out that after you were left another baby came along."
A third shared: "Lisa's story has broken me. I am a dry husk after all the tears."
While a fourth remarked: "Wow thats such a big revelation for bith Lisa and her siblings."
It's not the first time the
ITV
show
A previous Born Without Trace instalment followed
Three newborns abadoned by same parents
'Baby Elsa', named after the protagonist in Frozen, was found in sub-zero temperatures in Newham, east London.
She was believed to be less than an hour old when she was discovered by a dog walker, wrapped in a towel inside a reusable shopping bag with her umbilical cord still attached.
The Metropolitan Police suspect Elsa was born after a 'concealed pregnancy' - where a woman does not tell health professionals she is expecting.
DNA tests have since revealed Elsa has two siblings - a brother and a sister, who were abandoned in 2017 and 2019 respectively, within miles of where she was found.
The other babies, Harry and Roman, were discovered wrapped in blankets. They have both been adopted.
The parents of the three children are yet to be identified
At East London Family Court last week, Judge Carol Atkinson ruled the biological link between 'Elsa' and the other two children could be reported.
It was deemed of "great public interest" due to babies rarely being abandoned in modern Britain.
The trio are among five cases of children being abandoned at birth within the last four years in England and Wales.
In 2020, a baby was discovered in Hackney, east London, and another was found in Birmingham in 2021. Both of their mothers were tracked down several months later.
Having submitted his
DNA
to a database, the team found a first cousin, Martina, in
Ireland
.
But in a shock twist, it transpired that Martina, like Thomas, was also a foundling.
The two cousins met but ultimately continued their searches separately.
Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace airs on ITV1 and ITVX.
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Lisa's siblings were all excited to meet her
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The siblings all met up near the end of the episode
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