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Name: Isabella Skelton
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: June 6, 1969
Location Last Seen: Crumpsall, Manchester, England

Physical Description
Date of Birth: January 21, 1934
Age: 35 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Dark Brown, Short
Eye Color: Unknown
Nicknames/Aliases: Isabel/Izzy
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown

Identifiers
Dentals: Not Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Available

Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance
Isabella Skelton (Maiden name McDowall) , also known as Isabel/Izzy was last seen in the morning of the 6th June 1969 by her daughter at her residence in Crumpsall, Manchester, England. (exact time unknown). Isabella worked for a Courier service in Manchester and there was a rumour that she may have travelled to the USA to work.
 
RobinCAL said:
Thank you for creating this @dotr
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Adding the link you provided, thanks.
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The Manc
Images of woman missing for 50 years released
Sept 3 2020
''Police believe Mrs Skelton, who would be aged 86, could still be alive.

"We owe it to Isabella's family not to stop looking for her," said Det Insp Claire Moss.

Mrs Skelton's family grew up under the belief that she had left Manchester to work away for a period but they never saw her again.

There is no record of her after she left Manchester and no record of her death, police said. She remains classed as a missing person.''

''Glasgow-born Mrs Skelton married in July 1952 and is the mother of three children. She moved to Manchester in the early 1960s, first living in Salford and then in Crumpsall.

When in Manchester, she worked at Atlas Express in Blackfriars, Salford. She is also believed to have worked at Gallagher Cigarettes and Ball Bearings Services, the latter at the time of her disappearance, police said.''
 
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Detectives released a computer generated picture of Izzy Skelton at 86
Aug 31 2020
New image of Glasgow mum missing for 50 years and how she'd look today
''Izzy Skelton walked out of the family home on June 6,1969 leaving her three children behind, to this day no one knows what happened to her.''

''Better known as Izzy, her daughter Linda Chapman and sons Stephen and Richard have never given up looking for her since June 6, 1969.

The believe she could have returned to Scotland, where the family had links to Glasgow's Castlemilk and Drumchapel as well as Barrhead, Hamilton and Paisley.

She said: "I just want to know, one way or another.''

''Born in January 1934, it is believed Isabella was a pupil at Anderson Cross school, where she had a good friend called Anna Owen.

She later did some work in a florist and also worked for the James Howden engineering company in Glasgow.

Isabella married Lewis Skelton in July 1952 and the couple had three children - Linda, Richard and Stephen.

She moved to Manchester in the early 1960s, first living in Salford then moving to Crumpsall''.
 
The article at 'I think of her every day': My 50 year search for my mum (from 2019) contains the following quotes from her daughter;

“I just remember my dad telling me she was going to work away for a job - that was the conversation,” Linda says. “That was it.” and

“I remember getting upset because I wanted her to stay for my birthday,” she says.
“And I just thought it was so strange.”

This raises real questions in my mind about the father, especially as there seems so little out there about what this job may have been (making it a dead end in terms of tracing her).
 
alb1on said:
The article at 'I think of her every day': My 50 year search for my mum (from 2019) contains the following quotes from her daughter;

“I just remember my dad telling me she was going to work away for a job - that was the conversation,” Linda says. “That was it.” and

“I remember getting upset because I wanted her to stay for my birthday,” she says.
“And I just thought it was so strange.”

This raises real questions in my mind about the father, especially as there seems so little out there about what this job may have been (making it a dead end in terms of tracing her).
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Completely agree, I wonder if the daughter has her suspicions?

"And I just thought it was so strange"

I bet that story has been eating away at her over the years!
 
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Linda says she hopes her mum Isabella Skelton found happiness after leaving the family home in 1969

2019 rbbm.
Daughter will never give up trying to find Scots mum missing for 50 years

''Linda has auditioned for the ITV show Long Lost Family, worked with the Salvation Army and the charity Missing People in a bid to find her mum.

She even sought the help of the Preston branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Linda hoped that Mormons from the church could use a huge family history library and archive - known as The Vault - stored at their base in Salt Lake City, Utah, to locate her mum.

Despite these efforts, the family have never managed to trace Isabella.

But Greater Manchester Police are now renewing efforts to trace the mum-of-three, or anyone who knows her.

Isabella worked at the courier company Atlas Express, based in Salford, at the time of her disappearance back in 1969.

At the time the family lived in a terraced house on Lidiard Street, in Crumpsall.

Her daughter describes her as petite, neat and proudly presented, with curly hair.

When Isabella went missing the children moved up to Scotland to live with family there.''

''Linda recently met up with her uncle Alexander, who now lives in Belfast, for the first time in 55 years.

He had previously lived with Linda, her brothers, mother and father but left in the 1960s and lost contact with the family.

Linda says: “When I first saw him we had a big hug and he squeezed so tight I couldn’t breathe.

"I was very emotional. It was lovely.

“Alex didn’t realise my mum was missing.

"He’s given me a photo which is the only one I’ve got of me with my mother.

“When we first met he said: ‘How is she?’

"He didn’t know she was missing.


"He thought she was still down here with us.”
 
I just came across this reading the Doe Network and also found the articles linked above. I don't think this one is such a mystery, only what he did with her body. Notable that the kids were sent to away to live, isn't it.
 
Specialist cops search former home of Scots mum missing for more than 50 years
''Linda added: "“If she’d dead, she’s dead and I can grieve, but it’s the not knowing that’s difficult.

“Nobody has found a death certificate.

"We could just be grasping at straws but that tells me she might still be alive.

“Even if she had another family - she could have remarried - I’m not there to burst her bubble.

“We have tried every avenue and just hit a brick wall.

"You sometimes think ‘should I leave it?’”

“If she doesn’t want to contact me I can live with that.

"I just want to know that she’s safe.

“I want her to have had a happy life."

Detective Sergeant Jamie Heaton said: "We have been working with local partner agencies to ensure that there is minimal disruption for residents in the area, and I encourage anyone with any concerns in the coming days to speak to our uniformed officers on the ground that will be on hand to provide information.''
 
In a statement, Greater Manchester Police said: “As part of an investigation by GMP's City of Manchester North CID into the disappearance of Isabella Skelton, who was last seen over 50 years ago, specialist officers are working at an address in #Crumpsall as part of their enquiries.

This address, on Lidiard Street, is where Isabella is last known to have lived before she went missing in June 1969 and investigators continue to exhaust every potential line of enquiry.

“An age progression image (pictured) of what Isabella may look like now was released in September 2020 and the work in Crumpsall is the latest stage of the investigation.

"Officers are maintaining an open mind as they do all they can to find out what has happened to Isabella and the current occupants of the address, who have no link to Isabella or her family, have been temporarily relocated with support from local partners.”

Detective Inspector Claire Moss, who is leading the search for Isabella, said: “Isabella's family continue to seek answers to her disappearance over 50 years ago and I want to reassure the local community that our work in the next weeks is purely to try and aid our investigation.”
Cold case cops search home of mum, 35, after she vanished 50 years ago
 
alb1on said:
This raises real questions in my mind about the father, especially as there seems so little out there about what this job may have been (making it a dead end in terms of tracing her).
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Quote from older article plus I have bolded part below:
June 6, 1969 - it’s a day Linda Chapman will never forget.

Her mum Isabella Skelton, then 35, left home in north Manchester that day and never came back.

“I just remember my dad telling me she was going to work away for a job - that was the conversation,” Linda says. “That was it.”

It was just a few days before Linda’s 15th birthday.

“I remember getting upset because I wanted her to stay for my birthday,” she says.
“And I just thought it was so strange.”

Linda and her two younger brothers, Stephen and Richard, were devastated by the loss.

From then on Linda was expected to pitch in with housework, cooking, cleaning and caring for the two young boys while her dad worked long hours as a lorry driver.

“We just tried to get on with things,” she says.
“My dad never really spoke about it.
"It was taboo.
"Never even to this day.”

'I think of her every day': My 50 year search for my mum
 
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