Adopted child in search of family

I am writing to The Times for help in finding my father and family in Malta.

John Zammit is my father and was with my mother Dorothy in the early 1960s in the East End of London. I am the youngest of three boys from their relationship: Paul John, born in 1960, Anthony in 1961 and myself, Michael John, in 1963.

John Zammit had a café in the East End of London with Dorothy and on occasion my grandmother Elizabeth would come to stay from Scotland.

We were split as a family around 1964 and my father's partner at the time, my mother Dorothy, died in 1992 in London.

We have not seen either of our parents since we were around two years old and placed in the care of nuns, in a children's home, and eventually adopted when we were between eight and 10 years old. I believe my father returned to Malta but I do not know when.

Unfortunately, I do not have an age for him but from the recollection of my grandmother, with whom I was reunited for the first time a couple of weeks ago, he was born around the late 1930s, making him today about 72, God willing.

My family in Scotland and the UK are Catholic, as was John Zammit.

His surname I believe is fairly common but I hope someone will recognise something within these lines that will help to reunite us or at least fill in the missing lines of our lives.

My address is: Michael Zammit, c/o Anthony Lyon, 111 Pine Road, Winton, Bournemouth. Dorset, UK. E-mail: redskymike@hotmail.com. Telephone 0044 1202 5159 12; mobile 0044 7703 22077.