A woman separated from her mother at birth has today described the moment they hugged for the first time after they were finally reunited 61 years later.
Norah Gibson, 63, never knew Margaret Campbell, now 85, because she was given up for adoption as a newborn in 1955.
Her mother's parents chose to separate them and Margaret was not even allowed to hold her daughter before she was taken away in a Clydebank hospital.
Norah did not want to upset her adoptive parents by trying to trace her other family - but when her adoptive father John Gibson died in 1992, she began her search and they finally found each other two years ago.
The hunt was made difficult because her mother Margaret Campbell was last listed as living in West Dunbartonshire - but in fact she used the name Rita as an adult and had emigrated to Canada.
In November 2016 Rita flew to Scotland to be reunited with her daughter and the 4ft11in 85-year-old flung her arms around her child in Glasgow Airport's arrivals hall and told her simply: 'Here I am'.
Norah Gibson with her mother Margaret 'Rita' Campbell, who were reunited after 61 years (pictured in Clydebank where she was born)
Norah Gibson with her adoptive father John, who gave her a loving home, and whose death in 1992 inspired her to search for her birth mother
Norah said today: 'I'd been looking for more than 50 years and got nowhere. I never wanted to give up looking for her'.
In October this year, Norah flew to Canada to meet her 'second family' - and met the huge Campbell clan in their hometown, Campbellford, Ontario.
She spent Thanksgiving with them and says she has a lot to be grateful for - including the love and affection shown to her by the family who raised her after she was adopted in 1955.
Margaret Campbell actually went by the name Rita, making her daughter's search for her more difficult but they finally met in 2016 (pictured)
Norah added: 'I'm eternally grateful - I told her 'if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have my five grandchildren'.
'She created all these lives by going through what she did.
'I had to say that to her.'
Grandmother-of-five Norah was finally able to get in touch with her birth mother after a TV production company helped with her research.
Two years ago, Rita travelled all the way from Canada to Scotland to meet her daughter and they were reunited at Glasgow Airport.
Norah, from Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire said: 'My mother was unmarried when she had me, and her parents took control. She never had a say in the matter.'
Care worker Norah was inspired to seek out her birth mother after being told at a guest at her own wedding 'Your mother would be very proud of you'.
The glamorous bride was aged 19 when she wed ex-husband Kenneth McMaster and was shocked when her ancestry was mentioned.
But with the demands of raising four children, Andrew, Gregor, Ross and Lesley, and the tragic loss of her first child, Kenneth, her intentions of tracking down the woman who gave birth to her fell by the wayside.
And Norah was afraid of upsetting her adoptive parents John and his second wife, Peggy, who he married after the death of his first wife, also named Norah.
She described the couple as 'exceptional' and loving.
After their deaths, she trawled through records in Edinburgh and discovered that when she was born, the name given to her was Anne.
Rita Campbell meets four children of her long-lost daughter on a visit to Scotland
Norah, pictured age 6, had always wanted to find her birth mother but also felt torn about upsetting the parents who brought her up as their own
Her mother's name was listed as Margaret Campbell, who lived in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire.
Norah knew about her past but waited until the 1990s to properly search for her mother - but success only came two years ago
Norah pulled up the addresses of people named Margaret Campbell who still lived in the neighbourhood, but drew only blanks and even knocked on doors in the area but to no avail.
But Margaret Campbell was actually known as Rita and living on the other side of the world in Canada.
They were reunited with the help of television producers and began to exchange letters - eventually speaking for the first time on Mother's Day.
Norah said: 'We look alike, we think alike - it is so similar, it's uncanny. My mum kept her secret all her life, there was only one of her brothers who knew. Their initial letters were short and pragmatic, addressing medical history.
'I think she was in shock and couldn't quite believe it. It was the most surreal feeling'.
For the first time in 61 years, mother and daughter were able to embrace - as when the baby was born, she had been taken away from Rita immediately.
Norah said: 'Her hands were tied, she didn't have any part in the decision. She literally saw me being taken out of the room.'
Norah Gibson with mum Rita Campbell, who visited from Canada along with Norah's half-brother Ian Fair
Poignantly, they visited the building where Norah had been born in Dumbarton - dubbed by her mother as 'the scene of the crime'.
Over a two-week period, elderly Rita showed Norah the sights of Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, where she had spent her youth.
Norah said: 'I looked in records in Clydebank Town Hall and in Edinburgh, but all I had was her name and address, I didn't know she was using the name Rita.'
'She's just amazing, she's a lovely wee person.'
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