sentences:  When Alf eventually returned to Liverpool on 13 January 1945, he offered to look after Julia, their son and the expected baby, but Julia rejected the idea.A few months before the birth Alf took John to his brother Sydney's house, in the Liverpool suburb of Maghull.Julia gave birth to a daughter, Victoria, who was subsequently given up for adoption (after intense pressure from Julia's father and family) to a Norwegian Salvation Army Captain.